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CaféJordan

Semester
2
Year
2022
Typology
Hospitality architecture
Location
Alappuzha, Kerala

9°29′19.7″N 76°19′08.7″E

Introduction

A fifty-seater beachfront café whose architecture borrows the vocabulary of Alappuzha's bridges. A red cantilevered steel truss carries the deck out toward the sea. The enclosure above is a quiet pavilion. The design lets structure declare itself against a wide horizon, and lets light and air do the rest.

  1. Café, site axonometric on the beach
    01Café, site axonometric on the beach01 / 05
  2. Café, concept sketch and exploded axonometric
    02Concept, exploded axonometric02 / 05
  3. Café, plan, side elevation, exploded isometry
    03Plan, elevation, isometry03 / 05
  4. Café, perspective section through the deck
    04Perspective section04 / 05
  5. Café, physical model
    05Physical model05 / 05

The Idea

Alappuzha is a city of bridges and waterways. The café is an architecture of trusses, its red cantilevered steel becoming both the structural strategy and the building's identity at the shoreline. Above the iron, the room is reticent: a plane, a counter, a view.

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