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PENTA
Melbourne, Australia
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PENTA
Melbourne, Australia
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2016
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
Penta is a 125 square metre café in Elsternwick. The project can be viewed as a singular space split laterally by a concrete ground plane and a floating atmospheric volume above. Conceptually the interior space is suspended at this horizon line between the two opposing elements of concrete and air.
The client’s brief was to create a spatial experience providing not only the user with an ‘open- aired’ space but also allowing staff from the floor and kitchen the opportunity to look outwards into this open volume. A bernished grey concrete floor plane is lightly ground back to expose loose ends of aggregate. Orthogonal concrete elements rise from this floor creating a coffee and waiting station, married with terrazzo clad plinths, which form seating. The walls are clad in a veil of perforated aluminium that folds itself across the creases of the walls creating a screen to the kitchen and a smaller private dining area. Meanwhile light is captured and balanced within the metallic apertures. Conceptually interior space is suspended at the horizon line between the two opposing elements of concrete and air. The heaviness of the concrete ground plane is juxtaposed to the mass of nothingness in the form of perforated metal cladding. Deep cigar leaf coloured leather folds itself loosely over stainless steel rods creating a cushioned finish to the masonry plinths, whilst fern trees dot themselves around the café casting leafy, fibres shadows across an interior metal skin.
We would like to think that Penta pushes the limitations of what people would otherwise expect both aesthetically and experientially from a hospitality venue in Melbourne. Excellent interiors are masterful in light and shade, curating the subtle contrast of textures and materials. Penta was certainly an exercise in all these things. The burnished concrete floors and silvery terrazzo banquette's are juxtaposed by the playfulness of the draped leather banquette cushions and striking pop of colour the Australian Fern adds to the cafe. Sun light fills the main dining hall and the high ceilings echo a sense of grandness, whilst the communal dining at the rear is clouded in a midst of shadow providing for a contrasting and much needed space of refuge from the main dining area.
The client’s brief was to create a spatial experience providing not only the user with an ‘open- aired’ space but also allowing staff from the floor and kitchen the opportunity to look outwards into this open volume. A bernished grey concrete floor plane is lightly ground back to expose loose ends of aggregate. Orthogonal concrete elements rise from this floor creating a coffee and waiting station, married with terrazzo clad plinths, which form seating. The walls are clad in a veil of perforated aluminium that folds itself across the creases of the walls creating a screen to the kitchen and a smaller private dining area. Meanwhile light is captured and balanced within the metallic apertures. Conceptually interior space is suspended at the horizon line between the two opposing elements of concrete and air. The heaviness of the concrete ground plane is juxtaposed to the mass of nothingness in the form of perforated metal cladding. Deep cigar leaf coloured leather folds itself loosely over stainless steel rods creating a cushioned finish to the masonry plinths, whilst fern trees dot themselves around the café casting leafy, fibres shadows across an interior metal skin.
We would like to think that Penta pushes the limitations of what people would otherwise expect both aesthetically and experientially from a hospitality venue in Melbourne. Excellent interiors are masterful in light and shade, curating the subtle contrast of textures and materials. Penta was certainly an exercise in all these things. The burnished concrete floors and silvery terrazzo banquette's are juxtaposed by the playfulness of the draped leather banquette cushions and striking pop of colour the Australian Fern adds to the cafe. Sun light fills the main dining hall and the high ceilings echo a sense of grandness, whilst the communal dining at the rear is clouded in a midst of shadow providing for a contrasting and much needed space of refuge from the main dining area.
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