ANArKH Café & Restaurant / Simplex Structure
Textual content description offered by the architects. Positioned within the Gosan district of Uijeongbu, ANArKH Café & Restaurant is a cultural complicated the place café, bakery, meals, and artwork coexist. There are a number of improvement complexes close by, together with large-scale residential buildings. As well as, because the inexperienced belt zone is positioned in entrance of the constructing, the café blends in with nature.
The constructing has a easy rectangular mass. The view to the south and east is totally opened with a glass façade, dealing with the forest, whereas the north and west façade is cladded with strong partitions with a purpose to block the view towards the residence complicated and allow the guests to take a relaxation and having fun with the view in direction of the inexperienced.
Individuals visiting the café will progressively strategy the constructing, trying on the west façade from a distance. The northwest facade, cladded with yellow granite stone, divides the stone module into a big scale as if it’s a enormous pure stone block. The guests will begin the expertise of the constructing by going up the steps positioned on the northeast. When going up the steps, the view is blocked by the partitions, and it opens up as you strategy the highest of the steps, progressively revealing the looks of the constructing. Once you arrive on the finish of the steps and switch round to have a look at the constructing, it is possible for you to to look into the inside of the café, interacting with nature by means of the entrance window that opens to the east. Once you enter the constructing, it is possible for you to to benefit from the surroundings from the within to the surface.
The first, 2nd, and third flooring are cafes, whereas the 4th and fifth flooring are eating places. The cafes on the first, 2nd, and third flooring have completely different inside ideas in order that guests can expertise completely different experiences whereas going up every flooring. There’s a reflecting pool with a signature tree within the center in entrance of the massive window on the 1st flooring in order that guests can benefit from the inexperienced and the water. The second flooring makes use of a planterior to make a relationship between the planting inside and the character outdoors. Between the 2nd and third flooring is a duplex cafe theater house. That is the core house of this cafe, the place you may expertise cultural experiences similar to artwork, music, and exhibitions, and is open towards the southeast nook with the perfect view. The third flooring consists of an area the place you may get pleasure from foods and drinks whereas sustaining extra privateness. The 4th and fifth flooring are the restaurant flooring, and specifically, the fifth flooring has an area in reference to the outside rooftop landscaping house in order that VIP friends can get pleasure from foods and drinks in a extra personal means.
