KAN VELA Craft Chocolate Cafe'

Chiang Mai, Thailand

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KAN VELA Craft Chocolate Cafe'

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Firm

Pommballstudio

Type

Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

BUDGET

$5M - 10M

KAN VELA: Craft Chocolate –
“There is a phrase always get said and I have heard a lot “Cacao Connection” which means that chocolate is the very connector of all people over the world. It is a food that every gender and age can consume, and “to me, I believe that most of the people love to eat it. To open a café which shares experiences about chocolate is such a starting place for those who’re interested to experience new chocolate tastes and learn about its complexity”, the sentences from the owner that he said the original idea of the café was based upon. The traveling of cacao to this café starting from the very upstream of Thai cacao production in Thailand, then processed by Thai people, and get sold at the end of stream, at this modern architecture at the center of the town, “KANVELA CRAFT CHOCOLATE”. The café sells various products made from Cacao in the lovely atmosphere provoking meetings and gatherings for exchanging knowledge, as well as tasting new tastes of chocolate in different ways. Meanwhile, the architectures wanted the building to be simplistic in both space using and shapes, therefore they mimicked a “Chocolate Bar” which always comes as a grid pattern and use those patterns as inspiration of the design. The pattern is applied to building plan, architectural style, as well as material used in construction. The designers used the Chocolate-bar grid (1:2) in different scale for different space, for example, the terraces round the building were laid with wooden poles all along the front, and local bricks were used as main wall decorator all over the building. Regarding the concept, using different scale helps adding dimensions to the space in a straightforward and not too complicated way. The word that the designer picked to express is “repetition” to match with the pattern of chocolate bar: you can tell it from the table layout, furniture and wall design, bricks-engraved walls, glass-blocks wall, or even the ceiling that was imitated from the slope lines of a mountain, or Contour Line, which implies the origin of the cacao very well and literally (This also relates to the Branded Corporate Identity of the Café). Materially, all the items were bought locally and opted on the idea that its texture mustn’t be glossy to express genuineness and simplicity, while the café color tone is rather orange brown to be in range with chocolate color tone.

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KAN VELA Craft Chocolate Cafe'

Chiang Mai, Thailand

KAN VELA Craft Chocolate Cafe'

Chiang Mai, Thailand

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