Double S specialty coffee

A café within a rental unit in an office building, The Paul Sukhumvit 64, has its rules and regulations from the building juristic. Due to the rules, floor, walls, glass door and window cannot be replaced or modified, yet it is only allowed for covering another finished material without demolishing an existing one.

Double S Specialty Coffee is offered for surrounded people who lives in neighborhood, which has a lot of residence and office building nearby. Therefore, it needs to catch the eyes from people without changing an existing façade. ‘Double S’ which name is initiated from ‘from SEED to SIP’, reminds to an old roasting house, which is mainly use local materials together with revealing its rustic character. This becomes a design concept of the café, that attracts people, changes customer’s feeling and arouses coffee appetite, by using simple materials to create a new pattern.

Bare ‘concrete blocks’, without any plastered, are arrayed in simple arrangement, together with randomly inserting another edge of concrete block to generate an interesting pattern to a large back wall. Floor and ceiling are left over as it looks like before, which is ‘polished cement’ and ‘reinforced concrete’ without any finished material. Counter bar is cladded by ‘stainless steel’ plate which emphasizing coffee elements on the counter. An ‘adjustable glass louver’ is formed to duplicate layer of a front glass wall in order to change the façade feature. It has been transformed from a horizontal wooden louver wall in an old roasting house, while allows people seeing activities inside from its transparency.

[CONTRACTOR | TRIGON design con
PHOTOGRAPHER | Chalermwat Wongchompoo]