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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Little Bang Espresso in Melbourne, Australia by ZWEI Interiors ArchitectureApril 20th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: ZWEI Interiors Architecture Evolving from a much-loved mobile coffee outlet within RMIT University, the design captures the temporary origins of Little Bang Espresso but also maximises exposure within a tight footprint. The solution unfolds/unpacks the space; the door that becomes a menu wall, a pivoting coffee bench and counter units that couple together.  Image Courtesy © Little Bang Espresso
 Image Courtesy © Little Bang Espresso Responding to a client brief that didn’t want to lose the temporary origins of Little Bang Espresso as a much-loved coffee cart outside the RMIT University library, and faced with a tiny operational footprint that could not be built beyond, the design explored various solutions that allowed the units to pull out into the greater seating area, but then pack away at the end of trade. Faced with difficulties in providing services to the coffee machine, the final solution was for the coffee bench to pivot, allowing services to run through the steel pivot into the floor below. Additional counter units than roll out and stack together, and a hinged timber slatted door creates a frame for the tenancy, with an incorporated menu board, but hinges away and locks the tenancy at the end of the day. A common material language is used throughout, with strong graphic timber slats angled subtlety towards the coffee machine and strips of LED lighting creating a colour burst to the hinged wall.  Image Courtesy © Little Bang Espresso  Image Courtesy © Little Bang Espresso Customers are invited deep into the tenancy, with a banquette positioned at the end of the tenancy, with glimpses of the corridor below through the end slatted timber wall. An operational back of house kitchen and dish-wash area is tucked in behind the seating, partially concealed with a perforated mesh door, and retail shelving is featured with concealed LED lighting along the slatted wall.  Image Courtesy © Little Bang Espresso  Image Courtesy © Little Bang Espresso The design creates a daily performance of opening and closing, allowing the single operator to complete this function, and creates maximum presence by pushing into the common areas beyond. Only through innovative thinking, closely working with the client to problem solve various solutions, and a builder who was willing to work through meticulous detail to allow the space to function was the success of the project possible.  Image Courtesy © Little Bang Espresso  Image Courtesy © Little Bang Espresso
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