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Collaborative Architecture designed Typography 1, a temporary cafe at a trade show in Mumbai, India. They used materials supplied by exhibitors like tiles, glass, wood, and fabric to build benches, tables, and other furnishings in geometric shapes. This created depth and visual interest in the 208 square meter space through surfaces, textures, and lighting effects like glowing floor pathways and red fabric-wrapped columns. The design provided a strong identity and sense of permanence for the cafe despite its temporary nature at the trade show.
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What
Typography 1 - a temporary cafe that became part of an experiment for a trade show.
Where
Indiaʼs Maximum City, Mumbai
Who
Collaborative Architecture
Why
Because itʼs out of trade show tedium and into the depths of an exciting and intensely
blazing virtual world…OK OK, so we got a little carried away, but can you blame us?
Drama aside, Typography 1ʼs location may be a bit lacklustre, but CA more than makes
up for it by using only materials supplied by trade show exhibitors. Pretty savvy, eh?
Also because this project has a noble objective: to create a concept space that would
trigger the interest and participation of Indian architects nation-wide.
How
Based on the ʻGestaltʼ theory, which asserts human beings mentally complete spaces
and objects when elements of them are missing, CA took their restricted palette of tiles,
glass, wood and fabric from exhibitors and built 600mm-wide benches and tables in
trapezoidal, L-shape and rectangular forms. This gave the 208sq m café the depth and
breadth needed by creating surfaces, textures and shadows that would be manipulated
using a variety of lighting. The designers accentuated the space and its shapes using
light on the floor in the form of glowing pathways, and 450mm-diameter columns
wrapped in Ferrari-red fabric to fire up the area and punctuate the ceiling of darkness
above. In the end, this striking composition provides a strong presence and permanence
within a temporary environment.
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Hinge 170 folio
- 1. [folio] What Typography 1 - a temporary cafe that became part of an experiment for a trade show. Where Indiaʼs Maximum City, Mumbai Who Collaborative Architecture Why Because itʼs out of trade show tedium and into the depths of an exciting and intensely blazing virtual world…OK OK, so we got a little carried away, but can you blame us? Drama aside, Typography 1ʼs location may be a bit lacklustre, but CA more than makes up for it by using only materials supplied by trade show exhibitors. Pretty savvy, eh? Also because this project has a noble objective: to create a concept space that would trigger the interest and participation of Indian architects nation-wide. How Based on the ʻGestaltʼ theory, which asserts human beings mentally complete spaces and objects when elements of them are missing, CA took their restricted palette of tiles, glass, wood and fabric from exhibitors and built 600mm-wide benches and tables in trapezoidal, L-shape and rectangular forms. This gave the 208sq m café the depth and breadth needed by creating surfaces, textures and shadows that would be manipulated using a variety of lighting. The designers accentuated the space and its shapes using light on the floor in the form of glowing pathways, and 450mm-diameter columns wrapped in Ferrari-red fabric to fire up the area and punctuate the ceiling of darkness above. In the end, this striking composition provides a strong presence and permanence within a temporary environment. hinge 170_42 folio copy.indd 32 8/31/09 2:36:10 PM