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Voids Café: Innovative Study Space Design

Voids café in Singapore features a central concrete block carved out to create operational and seating spaces. The 28 square meter café has 10 indoor and outdoor seats near local landmarks. Negative spaces and circular geometries define the interior, with seating booths, shelves and overhangs carved from the central concrete counter, which appears to merge with the floor. The central counter provides a surreal lightness supported only from the ceiling. Cracks in the concrete allow planting to emerge, while circular cutouts with petal-like tables provide customer seating.

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Voids Café: Innovative Study Space Design

Voids café in Singapore features a central concrete block carved out to create operational and seating spaces. The 28 square meter café has 10 indoor and outdoor seats near local landmarks. Negative spaces and circular geometries define the interior, with seating booths, shelves and overhangs carved from the central concrete counter, which appears to merge with the floor. The central counter provides a surreal lightness supported only from the ceiling. Cracks in the concrete allow planting to emerge, while circular cutouts with petal-like tables provide customer seating.

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  • Introduction
  • Site Level
  • About the Café
  • Working and Customer Zones
  • Plan and Sections

DESKTOP STUDY

TOPIC: CAFÉ

Saanchi agarwal | 19041AA091 | Architectural design


Site level
Location:
Voids café, Singapore
Architect:
Studio SKLIM
Area:
28m²
Nearest landmarks:
• Jalan Besar sports centre
• King George’s buildiy
• The bravery cafe
Road geometrics: 3D view:

Topographic map:
About the cafe:
• Voids café features a monolithic central
block ,which has been carved out and
reshaped through a series of subtractions
and additions to create the operational and
anthropometrical needs of the interior.
• Number of seats for customers is 10(5
inside+5 outside)
• Voids are treated as spaces in this cafe.
• Negative spaces punctuate the space and
circular geometrics are consistently carried
throughout the rest of the built form
carving out seating booths, counter
tops,display shelfs and overhanging
canopies
About the café:
• The central feature of this café is the
concrete counter block,which was
visually made to be contiguous with
the floor with adjoining gentle
curved radii
• Above it,the overhangiy volume was
entirely holstered from the ceiling
with no supports connecting the
bottom countertop mass, giving a
surreal lightness to the entire
structure.
• The architects have purposefully cast
cracks in the concrete volume to
allow planting to emerge from
beneath.
Working and customer zones:
Experience circle was designed as a Experience
• Experience/retail corner suspended enclosure where customers counter
can duck under and experience the smell
of different coffee and tea products.

The counter spaces were


• Take-away counter carved out to bring
together a closer Take away
counter
interaction between
customer and barista.

Al fresco
Customer seating are circular cut-outs on seating

• seating booths the concrete counters with matching petal


like tables to [Link] metal tables
were created to project from the walls
and similarly from the concrete seating
booths. Seating for
couples Seating booths

• Small 'ritual counter’ for conducting workshops


Couple seating
formed from two
merged circles Carved out negative
spaces to accommodate
seating and work zones

Exterior view
Concrete counter with
custom pink concrete
top appears to merge
from ground plane
PLAN
Á

B B’

A
SECTION
Section AA’ Section BB’

DESKTOP STUDY TOPIC: CAFÉ Saanchi agarwal | 19041AA091 | Architectural design
Site level Location: Voids café, Singapore Architect: Studio SKLIM Area: 28m² Nearest landmarks: • Jalan Besar sports centre
Road geometrics: Topographic map: 3D view:
About the cafe: • Voids café features a monolithic central block ,which has been carved out and reshaped through a series o
About the café: • The central feature of this café is the concrete counter block,which was visually made to be contiguous
Working and customer zones: • Experience/retail corner • Take-away counter • seating booths • Small 'ritual counter’ for cond
Couple seating formed from two merged circles Concrete counter with custom pink concrete top appears to merge from groun
PLAN Á A B B’
SECTION Section AA’ Section BB’

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