DES/TEEL CAFE

Viale Avignone, Roma, Italy

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DES/TEEL CAFE

Viale Avignone, Roma, Italy

Type

Commercial ›
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant

YEAR

2005

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

DES/TEEL CAFE: 3 LEVELS OF SEPARATION

This project was an opportunity, for our
studio, to identify what we considered to be our “levels of separation” through
which an interior-design project is no longer an
“ornamental” issue but a “substantial” one:

1_CALCULATION:
This is the FIRST “change of state” between
the two: the introduction of the “structural aspect”.
Cause of the dimensions of m 10 x 10 x 3,30 of
the bar, we reduced to their substance with the project of the “accessory wall/counter
system” which was conceived as a large-scale design object.
The hanging-part projection of the
structure is approximately 3.50 m long.
The section of the counter, all along, eliminates the forces of torsion and by
folding, it sustains its own weight as well as the weight of the customers
bending over and resting along it’s length.

2_ORGANISM
The SECOND “change of state”: every
component of the bar must communicate with a basic concept/code developed
specifically for this project (and, as a result, with all the rest of it) as an
“organism”; each part is strictly alined and therefore not detachable from the
others.

This basic code is the concept of
“comfortable” and so we “wrapped”/”hugged” the whole space with detachable
“layers” enclosing an “empty center” where people would stay.
Each level is made by a single material
alternating hard/refine, cold/comfortable, intimate/exspandable,
dynamic/static, which later create an “eco-emotional” whole which enriches the
space. A sort of “place of balance”.

3_SPACE
The THIRD “change of state” was the “space
issue”: the “specific essence” of Architectura.
Cause of the small dimensions of the bar,
we “alterated” the borders between inside and outside by pulling backwards the
glass into the bar, hiding the frames and continuing the flooring beyond its
limits which, also becomes a sort of an invitation to sit.
Later on, we worked on a dynamic
development of all the components of the bar and to transform the space we
designed a progressive series of small altimetric jumps which contribute mostly
to the definition of “sub-spheres”.

We believe that the configured space
contains in itself both dynamic experience and a static one and, definitely,
the balance between the two “actions” was one of most important targets of this project.