CREDITS
_CLIENT: CLUB SEVENS, NABO GROUP
_LOCATION: Ploiesti, Romania
_DESIGN TEAM: MANADELUCRU
_ARCHITECTS: MADALINA IFTIMI, DORIN STEFAN ADAM
_COMPLETITION: 2012
_PHOTOS: ANDREI MARGULESCU
DESCRIPTION
50 meters and a low budget
The coffeeshop and the billiard club, occupying the two branches of an entire floor of a commercial space in the city of Ploiesti, are connected by a bar. Before this space was set up, there used to be a 50 meter long beauty salon here, covered in the well known salon/ club wall paper and divided into several cubicles, thus further breaking an already narrow space (5.30 meter wide).
As the billiard tables use up a considerable area and are anyway the main focus of attention, we have limited out intervention to two acts which define the space and emphasize its length: we covered the lateral wall and the ceiling in a mesh and we placed an approximate. A number of soft angles emerge where the couch meets the existing structure. The lavender couch-bench is the only colored item in a room full of dark grey tones.
The client wanted a billiard hall as dark as possible in the day and very visible from the outside at night, which led to the setting up of a string of suspended vertical neons between the curtain facade and a very thick black curtain which prevents the light from entering the room during the day. The effect of the neons in front of the curtain is very strong in the evening – resembling a bright bar code on a black background.
In the coffeshop, the color resumes to the floor. The existing conditions did not allow for the setting up of an epoxy-based blanket; instead we used a fuchsia PVC carpet. We eliminated the encased plasterboard ceiling, making visible the concrete slab with all its casting imperfections and water infiltration marks. All the furniture (including the 25 meter couch) was made to order (except for the chairs), the four-seat tables being arranged on the border so that emphasis should be placed on the central the “myriapod table".
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