Odd Fellows Café is truly born
from the neighborhood. Both the Stanev Potts offices and the owner’s
original cafe – Spruce Street Espresso, are literally a block away from Odd
Fellows. The cafe features a full size kitchen, coffee bar, seating for
almost 50, and accessible bathroom comfortably arranged inside a small
footprint. The tall ceilings and full height windows give the space a relaxing,
airy atmosphere.
The light wall panels are a custom
design, fabrication and installation. Using the mountain terrains of El
Salvador (birthplace of one of the owners) as our conceptual source material,
we created digitized topography sections and manipulated each one individually
to create facets and noise on the back faces. Each of the 11 panels is
constructed from 113 individual laser cut pieces of plexiglass and plywood,
laminated together, for a total of 1243 pieces. Two rows of flexible LED
strips run the length of the panels.