12 Coffee & Bar

12 Coffee & Bar
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12 Coffee & Bar
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1/2 Coffee & Bar

Cun Panda Nana Team

CHEIF DESIGNERS
Xuanna Cai, Jiacheng Lin

MANUFACTURERS
瑞加微岩石, 瑞瓦金属, 立邦

LIGHTING DESIGN
Vidlux&crisman

PHOTOGRAPHS
Xinghao Liu

AREA
250 m²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Xiamen, China

CATEGORY
Coffee Shop

In the past 4 years, it has developed into a coffee brand integrating coffee, inn, and customization. During the rapid development period, it plans to launch branches in Xiamen and surrounding islands.

12 Coffee & Bar
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12 Coffee & Bar
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CUN PANDA NANA received this design commission. The client expects to create a composite space in Gulangyu that is more in line with the surrounding natural environment and more suitable for local architecture.

A marine garden, a living museum of world architecture, a city of world heritage...these are the various annotations people give to Gulangyu, most of which show people’s fantasies and yearning for this small isolated island.

12 Coffee & Bar
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12 Coffee & Bar
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As designers, Cai Xuanna and Lin Jiacheng are also expecting that in the future 1/2 Coffee & Bar (Gulangyu Store) will become one of the unique annotations of Gulangyu.

Designers Cai Xunna and Lin Jiacheng start from the brand concept of 1/2 Coffee & Bar that an interesting life is half of mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas.

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12 Coffee & Bar
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Based on nature, the interior design organically combines the characteristics of the island and responds to the brand's ambition with a diverse and composite space.

Located in Dadeji Bathing Beach on Shengqi Mountain of Gulangyu Island, the original structure of the project was part of the 19th-century building of Deji Company, which is a dome building with a natural sea view.

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12 Coffee & Bar
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The round architectural lines appear natural and harmonious next to the Dadeji Beach on Gulangyu Island.

A simplified veranda architectural style is adopted to retain a large proportion of the original architectural form.

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12 Coffee & Bar
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The small-leaf ficus commonly seen on the island grows indoors in another way, where the main steel structures look like tree trunks, growing around the space and stretching out a broad "canopy" covering the ceiling, to create shadows and a shelter from the sun and rain in the humid, hot, and rainy subtropical region. It also creates an unseen space for ventilation and heat dissipation.

Layers of leaves on the canopy form shadowy lights under the illumination of the "sunshine", projected on the ground. In the 1/2 Coffee & Bar, light strips are embedded in the gaps between the "twigs and trees" on the top, full of leisurely fun.

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12 Coffee & Bar
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When night falls, the surrounding is gradually wrapped in darkness, and the 1/2 Coffee & Bar shows its second identity. The gentle daytime forest sparks under the modern neon light.

Whether it’s the 1/2 logo, the "trunk", or the "shade" big or small, they all have a bolder and modern appearance appealing to nightlife lovers.

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12 Coffee & Bar
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The gradually mature design skill is something to be commended. However, it is also necessary to avoid the stereotypes of strong vision and atmosphere.

Giving a new entry point for the new generation of designers, designer Lin Jiacheng starts from the urban context, history and culture, and natural resources to create a spatial memory for 1/2 Coffee & Bar that belongs to Gulangyu Island.

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