" The Pathum Café design project aimed to create a unique and functional cafe that showcases a love of nature and quality coffee, with a focus on a warm and inviting atmosphere through the use of wood, plants, natural light, and a color scheme inspired by coffee. "
Pathum Café is an architectural and interior design work of a café and restaurant located at Rangsit Klong 1. The intention is to create a place that focuses on selling high quality coffee, beverage and comfort food. However, the requirements that Too Architects received in the first time is to design an “outstanding space for the neighborhood” which meets the needs of customers both eat-in and take-out.
Starting from the owner's importance to the "Slow Bar" area, which will be the heart of the place. It is a space for customers to sit and drink coffee that has been made meticulously. take time and care in order to serve the best quality coffee. The design team therefore brought this main point as the starting point of the design process that uses the familiar architectural element, namely "staircase" as an element that connects different areas together.
Flat planes were used that folded together to form a ladder-like shape. Starting from the “Slow Bar” area, continuing to the main “Bar” of the shop that will be the coffee area, serve orders and services. The single ladder-like plane will continue up to the second floor and act as both Plant shelves, seats and tables of varying heights. We see “Slow Bar” as the starting point and the most important spot of this place which connects people and places together. In the middle of the building has a courtyard that allows customers to experience nature directly. Courtyard helps to filter the sunlight that enters during the day. which will reduce the heat generated in the building.
The building itself is transparent and opaque, within the “façade” the design team intended to use solid concrete on the first floor and transparent glass on the ground floor. In order to obscure the view from the street looking up to the second floor, it still opens up in the ground floor area, making it easier to access from street level. But at the same time, we chose to open the side of the first floor area with a clear glass wall. To increase the natural light that will enter the building and the side view that will not be disturbed by the traffic of people passing in front of the main road.
The Mood & Tone of the building focuses mainly on the use of raw concrete and terrazzo surfaces. Because the design team wanted to build to express solemnity and fierceness. But interspersed with green spaces within the building and plants placed on ladder-like planes within the café, helping to give it a warm atmosphere.
