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Arthouse Cafe by Joey Ho
Triangular windows pierce the faceted walls that fold around a cafe in Hangzhou, China.
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Hong Kong designer Joey Ho designed the Arthouse Café on the top floor of a three-storey building that also houses a gallery.
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Some of the triangular openings are contained within wood-lined recesses, while others have thick wooden frames.
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Monochrome chairs and tables that furnish the cafe also feature triangular surfaces and facets.
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Some other interesting cafes we've featured include one that looks more like a warehouse and another that has a wall of timber offcuts - see more here.
Photography is by Mr. Wu Yong Chang.
The following text is from Joey Ho Design:
Enjoy Drinks at Arthouse Café under Geometric Ambience
When you walk in a café
Can you expect what a café will look like before you walk in for a cup of coffee? The proportion of chained café is overwhelming in the city nowadays. While it’s good to have familiarity towards a place where things inside are within your expectation, it’s always nice to have a change and surprise to brighten up our routine lifestyle!
A Hong Kong based architectural and interior designer, Joey Ho, has a unique perspective towards this existing coffee culture. Joey applies his new dimension of space design on bar & café and creates the innovative Arthouse Café which aims to bring café-goers an enjoyable, brand new experience.
Sip a cup of coffee in a symmetrical leisure space
Unlike chained shops, Arthouse Café offers an unprecedented, new atmosphere for visitors in terms of relaxation and social events. Café-goers now have an ideal place for mingling with others in an innovatively-designed public space.
Arthouse Café is constructed with minimal use of materials for a new landscape, with the aim of stimulating each visitor’s complicated sensation. Inspired by geometry and using triangles as blueprint, “moving triangle” concept is manifested by placing triangles in three-dimensional form to surround the whole sitting area. Slight changes of simple lines construct the character of the cafe which brings every individual into a new geometric context. Visitors will experience a non-verbal “dialogue” with the interior space, with the café’s attempt of breaking boundaries between traditionally divided units such as wall and ceiling.
When your body moves between triangles in a café
Interior space is in general considered to be static in contrast to the moving human body. However, the designer develops a dynamic form for the static interior space of Arthouse Café. As a result, movement of human body through this graphically active space (“moving triangle”) will generate a non-determined concept in which spatial and body boundaries between the café and users constantly blur.