For Architects Niel Parekh and Pooja Parekh it is not the style of an architect that becomes pivot for a design but the context that forges a design.
This cafe is a part of the chain of restro lounge belonging to the brand Coffee Culture, which had started with the idea of incorporating the culture and adapting to the context where it settles in. The brief given to the architect was also to work with a very constrained budget, which was an interesting challenge for them. As the cafe was based in a Bardoli, Gujarat a satellite town where scrap can be found in abundance, they came up with an idea to design a "contextually responsive environment" by using scrap, specifically pipes as an element which would be artistically functional.
Responding to the budget constraint, the existing long wall in the cafe was stripped off its plaster and kept as an exposed brick wall with minimum finishing layers. It also acts as a backdrop for the coffee counter and the remainder walls are finished with grey textured paint. The dark space is lit by a series of Edison Light Globes, which suspend above the counter, highlighting it. The unusual geometrical twists of the GI pipes wind up creating merchandise display rack, bottle storage, lighting fixture and support for furniture as well. Consistent use of the colours white, brown and blue brings certain calmness between the otherwise fairly random placed elements.
The design and material palette were manipulated carefully to echo the site's narrative while maintaining Coffee Culture's branding strategy as a young and trendy company which evolves with time and place.
