NANA Coffee Roasters Bangna

Architectural spaces are combined harmoniously with the landscape to create a lush atmosphere that draws the visitors away from a buzzing motorway, redirecting their focuses onto the coffee.

Existing trees became a guiding element when designing the building layout as they are purposely kept. With the addition of some landscaping, these trees function as design features as well as provide privacy for the visitors.

The restrooms are designed as independent pods dotted around the landscape.

The restroom planning is quite open with only the absolute private functions such as the toilets that are fully enclosed.

The view inside the restroom where the users are still connected to some greenery through the use of frosted gradient glass.

The cafe is divided into different masses in an effort to keep existing trees.

The existing house on site is combined into the architectural and landscape design, turning it into a slow bar while the gable roof inspired the slanted roof on the new buildings.

The Slow Bar zone features a black wall to create contrast from the other zones.

The Slow Bar area is used for serious coffee connoisseurs, the interior design is more subdued and calm to allow for deep conversation between the barista and customers.

The speed bar zone is a separated building mass from the slow bar to respond to different visitor’s traffic.

The ceiling is cladded with stainless steel sheet mosaics which gradually brings the reflection of the greenery into the interior spaces.

The reflective ceiling blurred the separation between the walls and floor, creating a softer, diffused atmosphere.

The landscape seems to flow into the interior and vice versa, the architecture which normally separates the two realms is blurred, enabling the outdoors to interact within the interior spaces. This creates a borderless effect where different spaces appear to flow into one another.

The blurred spaces create undefined areas where instagram-ability is naturally made to be less important than the visitor’s coffee experience.

Outdoor furniture is designed to be an extension from the furniture indoors, emphasizing on the blurred boundaries where spaces flow into each other.

The contour countertop refers to the mountains in northern Thailand where the coffee beans are grown. The undulating surface also makes the users concentrate on their coffee placement while also doubling as a way to provide “social distancing”.

The gaps in between the building masses allow for the landscape and trees to leak into the architectural spaces while creating a light dapples effect in the interiors.

The steel structure continues beyond the building’s edge, creating a visual transitional volume for the roof as it gradually becomes less solid further away from the building’s mass.

De-emphasizing the architecture allows for the boundaries between the architecture, interior and landscape to be blurred.

The roof gradually blends into its surroundings, from the gable which was inspired by the roof of an existing building to the voids to allow for trees.