Photographer: Ajax Law Ling Kit, Virginia Lung
Located in the Shenzhen Bay OCT Harbor Theme Park, the Aix Arome Café is where visitors feel their coexistence with the oceans. The huge egg shaped structure placed within the middle of the space is simultaneously containing both functions of cashier and coffee supply, whereas it is an area that defined by its own beauty. The iconic appearance of the booth is inspired by dark and dull looking coffee bean, surprisingly things like this is the source of pleasure taste in adult manner, thus the gray tone on the booth is the visualization of this amazing taste. On the other hand, the booth also looks like a enormous egg that all the things on the Earth grow from after hatched. It also tells that growing is actually a bitter process, the oceans has always take the role to tell us this. The two big openings on the top-front of both sides of the “big bean” serve as good source of ventilation and natural light, in addition with the pamphlet outlets on its surface, now people know the coexistence of functionalism and beauty at once.