TWOBYTWO: A FORMER GARAGE BASED COMMUNITY



Author: Stefan Pavaluta, Ana-Maria Oancea
Furniture: Bogdan Petru
Location: Bucharest, Romania (closed)
 





Year: 2022
Photo: Vlad Albu
Surface : 20 sqm
     A corner house that gets a second life. At first, it was the high ground floor with a shop of objects and accessories made by Romanian designers. What remained was the garden and the semi-basement in (almost) direct connection with the street. The cafe and vintage clothing store transforms a former car garage, positioned perpendicular to the street and open across its entire width, into a “room” that you can access from the street. The general plan is composed of different rooms, connected to each other.
The car ramp becomes the access and the terrace, a mirror of the interior space.

In the design process, we continued with the communal table, the key element of the TwoMinutes coffee shop, and we gravitated with the remaining missing pieces around it. In this scenario, the main countertop does not have equivalent limits, but determines different areas of distance and proximity where customers can interact with each other or with the barista, being accessible on both sides. This area is completed by other seating areas for customers and some furniture inserts to support the coffeeshop function. The furniture is made of solid wood, with a design oriented more towards detail than towards visible surfaces. The overall image of the café is balanced by the various visual elements and details – lighting fixtures, products for sale, glasses, utensils, menu and last but not least a bas-relief made by Cristian Frone, especially for TwobyTwo.

The rest of the rooms are configured complementary to the main space – bathrooms, storage, a booth with a vintage clothing store. The garden becomes the common “space” of the house, a mediator of all the functions present in the building. The state area takes over the same intention from the interior and determines narrower, wider areas according to the existing vegetation and the proximity or distance from the house. Detailed architecture. The interior space with the terrace and the garden become a “kitchen” of the street, opened two by two to the sidewalk.




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