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50 PROJECT REPORT: HOTELS, RESTAURANTS & BARS


opposed to private Japanese tea houses, is fully glazed for transparency and lightness, “to give you the sort of uplifting flying canopy, that at the same time sits harmoniously with the design because it is transparent.”


Horizontal mullions were however introduced within the glazing to give visitors a bit more intimacy and privacy when siting inside the coffee house. “It’s a very fluid, futuristic looking


design,” adds the architect, “but with very traditional architectural features.”


Materiality & structure Structurally, the building has six columns and a box frame, with which the practice worked alongside Arup to achieve. Another party acting in the project was manufacturers of the roof, mouldCAM – which has proved to be the most recognisable feature of the design. “We wanted to create a brass or copper effect here – heritage materials that are a customary theme in architecture,” Jonathan details. “We tried to bring that element of nobility to the site, alongside an earthy materiality – we were very conscious that we didn’t want to do a gleaming polished church; we wanted it to feel like it’s been


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existing on the site for a while.” The practice looked at patinating brass on the roof to remove the ‘gleaming’ factor, and also to see the human element of hand finishing the whole 100 m2


roof.


Eventually, the team decided on the final design which, while appearing to be solid brass from the outside, is actually constructed of glass reinforced plastic (GRP), but hand painted with a gel formed of 75 per cent brass dust to give it the desired effect, and retain a human touch. The construction of this roof is a feat of engineering in its own, with not a single bit of steel or rafters necessary to hold it up. “The structure is fully inherent of its


shape,” the architect explains. “The dome takes on the compression forces and leads it to the two columns at the front, and the rear has two reverse arches which sit upon the two columns at the back.” The shape of the building itself helps provide structural strength, with the carbon and glass fibre providing extra support and tying the building together in a bespoke shape which defines the design. “I think that is what’s so liberating as a designer currently – you can really create very free forms of expression through computer-aided design, and then


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