Single Patch咖啡館位於蘇州老城區十全街中段，距離著名的滄浪亭和網師園也不過數百米之遙。優質的地理位置給小店帶來大量客流，但如何清晰描繪全新的咖啡館和老街之間的對話關係將成為重要的挑戰。
Single Patch Coffee is situated at the middle of Shiquan Street in Suzhou old city, which is only a few hundred meters away from the renowned Canglang Pavilion and the Master of the Nets garden. The extremely good location not only bring up masses of consumers but also cause the significant challenge that how to clearly delineate the dialogue relationship between the pristine cafe and the old street.
▼門面，front view
嵌入城市的一枚補丁
A patch embedded into the city
“Single Patch”的字面意思是“單個補丁”，也是店主的咖啡哲學。作為咖啡師和烘焙師，店主曾經長期居住在墨爾本，他一直希望能將這種街巷咖啡文化以某種方式介入蘇州人的日常生活，猶如一枚嵌入城市的補丁，把咖啡習慣植入人們的生活。所以，他很希望設計上能更多地體現參與感。
“Single Patch” has the literal meaning of one piece of stuff to stick over something, which is also the philosophy of the café owner. As a barista and coffee roaster, he used to live in Melbourne for a long time. He always keeps thinking how to make this kind of street coffee culture become Suzhou lifestyle somehow as a designed intervention, just like a single patch embedding the city in order to implant the habit into people’s daily life. Therefore, the sense of participation is much in greater need refer to the design.
▼店鋪內景，interior view
被觀賞的渴望
A longing for being watched
咖啡館的入口正好位於一段建築簷廊之下，因而如何使它成為抓人眼球的亮點異常重要。我們設置了一扇可摺疊開啟的窗扇，沿窗臺的客人可以裡外對坐。社交很容易發生在此。當人們選擇撫窗而座觀賞外景時，他們內心裡渴望被觀賞的社交傾向也被激活了。咖啡的香氣主動向街道瀰漫，讓來客都願意加入這個空間。
The entrance of the café is just under the overhanging corridor of a building, thereby how to highlight it to grab the attention of the public would be extremely significant. A holding window has been set up so that people can just sit by the sill both on the inside and outside. It is the right space to have the socializing. When people choose the sill seats framing the external street view, their inclination of socializing are activated as well. The aroma of the coffee permeates towards the street to easily draw the diners in with strong delight.
▼可摺疊開啟的窗扇讓沿窗臺的客人可以裡外對坐，a holding window has been set up so that people can just sit by the sill both on the inside and outside
中性的背景
Neutral Background
咖啡店的主角是咖啡。因而我們傾向創造一箇中性、純粹的背景，避免過度裝飾的空間。室內主要的色調是銀白色。牆面以常見的定向刨花板襯面，表面處理成類似金屬般的銀色，反射的光線因為板材粗糙的肌理而變得更加柔和，加之工作區黑色大理石臺面的映襯，空間帶有一點未來感。吊頂是垂掛的鋼架格網，像一座倒置的城市輪廓，逐層退進疊落，指向房間正中的操作區，暗示咖啡吧檯是空間的核心。地面是一張用色很剋制的基地，素色水泥地坪點綴著黑白的石子, 創造一種沉靜又不失優雅的氣氛。
Coffee plays the main role in the coffee shop. So we tend to create a neutral and pure background space without any over-decorating. The primary palette for the interior space is silvery. The walls are cladded in oriented strand board (OSB) with metallic silver coating which provides much more gentle reflection due to its rough surface. Additionally, the barista station with the black marble countertop plays off the texture of the walls to bring up a bit futuristic. A set of metal grid is suspended from the ceiling which seems like an urban skyline hung upside down. The spatial grids figure towards the central working space to imply that it is the core of the room. A pain cement floor with monochrome aggregates has been provided as a base which is restrainedly colored to create a calm yet elegant atmosphere.
▼中性、純粹的環境背景，避免過度修飾，to create a neutral and pure background space without any over-decorating
▼裝飾細節，detail
對話
Dialogue
店內佈置有私密的卡座、線性的長凳和摺疊窗下的散座三種座位類型。所有的座席和吧檯呈U字形圍繞佈局，手衝分享臺在正中央。所有有礙視線的設備都靠牆擺放，讓吧檯正面完全開放。這樣佈局的好處是，來客既可以即時觀看咖啡師的技藝表演，又能欣賞咖啡機充滿機械美學的操作面。此時，操作檯不再是咖啡製作的後臺，而更像是咖啡師和來客對話的舞臺。
Three types of seats are set up including intimate car seats, linear benches and movable stools along the sill. All the seats surround the barista station as the U shape with the hand drip desk set right in the center. Any stuff which might be the visible obstacle has been placed against the wall in order to get the continuous view through the counter. It benefits that people will not only instantly watch the skilled performance of the baristas, but also see the operating elevation of the coffee maker which is full of mechanical aesthetics. It seems as if the working surface becomes a stage of dialogue between the baristas and the consumers rather than just the back of house.
▼操作檯成為咖啡師和來客對話的舞臺，the working surface becomes a stage of dialogue between the baristas and the consumers
▼軸測圖，axonometric diagram
▼平面圖 / 材料，plan and material
▼剖面圖，section
Project name: Single Patch Coffee
Architect’s Firm: TAILOR WEY
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
Project location: No.875, Shiquan Street, Suzhou, China
蘇州市十全街875號
Completion Year: 2017
Gross Built Area (square meters or square foot): 22 sqm
Lead Architects: Ginny Wey
Other participants Weeley Hwang, Lawrence Li
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Photo credits: Yunpu Cai, Lay Jiang
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