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Daodao Coffee in Intime City
Chinese Coffee Shop Development – design by HAD Architects & EPOS
23 Dec 2017
Daodao Coffee, China
Architects: HAD Architects & EPOS
Location: Intime City, Chengdu, China
Daodao Coffee located in the center of Intime City Commercial District in Chengdu.

The total area of this two-floor cafe is around 65 square meters. And the designers tried to make it an ideal space to relax.

In our opinions, design should start with exact questions, and a good design is one of the answers. Our question about this project is how to make different customers with diverse needs find their place in this 56-square-meter area with a height of 5.6 meters and a non-natural-light second floor.
We tried to solve this problem from the changeability of small spaces and the integration of material and light.

Mental space division is used instead of physical space division to meet the need of bearing multiple activities and avoiding interrelationship.

So we chose the furniture up to the requirements to define the space. Woods with warm colors can create a natural and comfortable atmosphere; overlapping dark metal punched panels play a role of rail to partly shield the space and keep the privacy. These two factors distill a concept-the combination of emotions and reasons in the city.

Relatively speaking, the first floor is an open area to provide a place for thos...