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Sawo Rontgen Coffee Shop, Bandung, Indonesia

印尼萬隆　Sawo Rontgen 咖啡館

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Dhanie & Sal

Sawo Rontgen occupies the front yard of an existing house in a residential area with a strong tie to medical facilities. Searching for a unique identity for the second home of Sawo Coffee, we took the location’s rontgen street name as an identity generator and play around with the visual quality of rontgen.

Sawo Rontgen 咖啡館坐落於一座住宅區的前院，這是 Sawo Coffee 的第二家門市。為了賦予該店面獨特性，設計團隊從門市所在的 Rontgen 街汲取靈感，將其視為營造視覺品質的依據。

Exploring different modes of transparency to achieve rontgen-like character, glass brick and acid glass were used as the main materials. The glass bricks arranged as a floating box demarcating the front yard effectively as a space for the cafe, forming a pseudo-boundary. Acid glass were used as the skin of the pavilion and covers elements from the existing house, adding an extra layer to the existing house without making significant changes. The two materials juxtaposed with both the structural and natural elements, resulting in a broad spectrum of visual transparency we wanted to achieve. The structure uses exposed H-beam steel in hot-dip galvanized finish. The bare structural elements along with the blurred transparency of the glass brick and the acid glass meant to resemble the skin and bone quality of the rontgen visual.

為了探索不同的透明度模式以實現類似 rontgen 街的特性，設計團隊以玻璃磚和酸性玻璃為主要建材。玻璃磚排列成一個彷彿正漂浮在半空的盒子，有效地劃分了前院作為咖啡館的空間並形成了一個虛擬邊界。酸性玻璃則被用作建築的表皮覆蓋了原先房屋的元素，在其外部增加了額外的一層但卻沒有造成重大改變。這兩種材料與結構和自然元素呼應，產生了設計團隊理想中的大範圍透明度。該結構使用經由熱浸鍍鋅加工的 H 型鋼，其外露的結構元素、玻璃磚的模糊透明度和酸性玻璃宛如相連的骨肉，在視覺上將咖啡館與 rontgen 街連結在一起。

The glass pavilion contains a stark white coffee bar, a signature of Sawo Coffee, serving customers before they enter the cafe area. Hidden inside the box, is an outdoor seating of a circular shape, taking cues from the logo. Its strong form invokes a calming atmosphere, an informal space in dialogue with the architecture. Beside the pavilion a steel staircase is placed, giving access to the acquired room on the upper floor which serves as the indoor seating area.

The glass bricks are arranged in a zig-zag manner to ensure a stronger connection and more even weight distribution. Later the bricks were stretched, creating vertical gaps between the bricks, allowing airflow in and out the glass brick wall and also saving the material usage by twenty percent.

玻璃亭內純白色的咖啡吧是 Sawo Coffee 的標誌，在顧客進入咖啡區之前迎接他們。 而隱藏在玻璃磚所構成的「盒子」裡的是一個圓形的露天座位區，其靈感亦源於 Sawo Coffee 的品牌標誌，如此鮮明的形式喚起了一種平靜的氛圍，並提供了一個與建築對話的非正式空間。在建築一側的鋼製樓梯則可以通往樓上的室內座位區。

玻璃磚呈之字型排列，以確保有更牢固的連接及更均勻的重量分佈。接著玻璃磚被拉伸，每個磚塊間形成的垂直間隙不僅促進通風，同時還節省了20% 的建材用量。

The pattern that was a result of a pragmatic approach then becomes a set of rules that are carried out throughout the space. The repercussion could be found in the circular outdoor seating and the tiles flooring on the indoor seating. The environmental graphic design system applied following said rules by inserting the graphic design elements which form is in harmony with the architectural pattern.

而後這種實用主義的模式演變成一套在整個空間中執行的規則，影響了圓形的露天座位區和室內座位區地坪上的瓷磚。環境視覺設計系統同樣按照上述規則，導入與建築圖樣呼應的平面設計元素。

Principal Architects : Salman Rimaldhi, Dhanie Syawalia

Project Architect : Ferdio Ariatama

Lighting Design : ErreLUCE

Structural Engineering：Indra Structural Works

Contractor：Lion Earth Construction

Character of Space：Restaurant & Bars, Coffee Shop

Each Floor Area：62,5㎡

Total Floor Area：117㎡

Building Area：117㎡

Site Area：144㎡

Principal Materials：Glass Brick．Acid Glass．Hot dip galvanized steel．Concrete

Principal Structure：Steel．Concrete

Location：Bandung, Indonesia

Photos：KIE

Text：Salman Rimaldhi

Interview：Yang-Xuan, Jiang

Dhanie & Sal

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