Design of Pomegranate Coffee Bar
Location of Project: Shanghai
Time of Design: 2008
Area: 230 square meters
The western style is easy to create due to its own western identity. designers realized that the important strategy of this design is grasping one point of Central Asia features, studying it deeply and melting with the modern elements.
Khaki firebrick is a construction material, which leaves deep impression and is used frequently in the Xinjiang constructions. However, the khaki firebrick is seldom used in Shanghai, so using lots of firebricks as the key element of Xinjiang style is very special, which is the essential visual feature of this bar. attention to its elevation changes. Therefore starting from the facade, old floors removed from many old buildings are used to pave the ground floor coverings and wall in the designing process, which enriches and warms the façade.
All of these express the characteristics of this time — multi-cultural integration.