Project：露台咖啡 - 孚乐里西式简餐
Terrace Cafe - FOOOO
Location: 成都，中国
Chengdu, China
GFA: 110m2
Time: 2014.10-2015.01
临街的咖啡店为城市提供了一种富有人情味的环境：人们可以懒洋洋地坐在那里，观看街景和熙来攘往的行人。临街咖啡店的存在为社区提供了社交的场所。
一个以“露台”为概念的临街咖啡店。基地位于成都奥克斯商业广场的入口一侧，同一块室外广场相邻，广场外是地铁站及宽阔的马路，放眼望去是川流不息的车流。临街咖啡店的社交场所属性要求其空间具有充分的开敞性。然而，就我们的本性而言，我们总是倾向于既有公共性，又有私密性；既能让我们参与公共活动，又能在某些时候避免被打扰。“开敞性”如果毫无限定，在基地的现有条件下是极不稳定的，它极易被相邻的空旷广场与入口的繁忙人流所“吞噬”，丧失自身的空间属性。
我们的课题是如何创造一个具有开放姿态的空间，同时避免尺度空旷的广场及商场主入口密集人流的影响，甚至改善它们，进而塑造一个全新的，具有人情味的空间场所。
赖特曾在他从事建筑的初期，在切尼住宅和罗比住宅等设计中，对室内空间与街道之间的关系进行了实验：他在私密的起居室和公共的街道之间，建造一个很宽的露台，使露台略高于街道，并以低墙保护它，如果你坐在露台上，你可以从墙的上方望见街景，但墙却阻挡了街上行人的视线，使他们看不见室内空间。
Studio DOTCOF多棵设计应用这一模式，搭建了一个连接室内外的大露台，将咖啡店室内外抬升到同一个标高，室外部分的四周以植物环绕。室内外之间几乎没有设置任何实体的阻隔，只是加入了一道通长的，可完全打开的玻璃推拉门。当玻璃推拉门打开时，室内空间与室外露台就完全融为一体。唯一的墙体是大露台上一个木盒子体量，它包含了备餐厨房、洗碗间和一个相对私密的就餐区。
“在这个临街咖啡店的设计里, 我们摒弃了消费社会中商业空间常见的“奇观”式设计策略，代之为一种更加成熟和宁静的，更加具有人文关切的空间设计。”
The Street café provides a human setting, special to cities: a place where people can sit lazily, legitimately, be on view, and watch the world go by.
A street café, which based on the concept of “terrace”. The site is adjacent to one main entrance of AUX mall in Chengdu, and adjacent to an outdoor square. Beyond the square, there are the subway station and a busy road. The social nature in street café requires the openness in space. However, we have within our nature tendencies towards both communality and individuality; both our participation with a public world and the intimacy of a private haven. In this site existing condition, the “openness” space will easily be overwhelmed by the adjacent over-scale square and the crowd to the entrance, if not defining it carefully.
Our research is to create a space which is open and friendly, also avoid the interruption from adjacent over-scale square and crowd to mall entrance, further to improve their relations, building a new human place.
Early in his career, Frank Lloyd Wright experimented the relations between interior and street, on both Cheney house and Roby house. He built a wide terrace between private living room and street. Raise the terrace slightly above street level and protect it with a low wall, which you can see over if you sit near it, but which prevent people on the street from looking into the living room.
Studio DOTCOF use this pattern to build a big terrace connecting the interior and exterior, raise the indoor and outdoor floors up on a same level, and place planters surrounding the terrace. The only division inserted in between is a full-length sliding glass door. When the glass door is fully open, interior and exterior space are merged completely. The only solid partition is a wood box mass on the big terrace, which includes a kitchen, a dishwashing room and a small intimate dining area.
“In this street cafe design, we refused the “spectacularity” design strategy which often used in commercial space in today’s consuming society, but a more human and peaceful design instead.
