up to date structure lands in rural korea
Aiming to revitalize a rural space outdoors Icheon, South Korea, On Architects designs this NONSPACE Café as an alluring and trendy area for the getting older, rice-farming city. Via structure, the design staff goals to encourage interactions between a various mixture of cultures, its ground plan organized with a ‘woven’ format to generate intersecting areas.
In some ways the mission merges the normal with the up to date. Development-seeking ‘café-hoppers’ are invited to expertise the agricultural place and admire its sprawling panorama of rice farms. In the meantime, the minimalistic concrete construction and is constructed with an progressive methods which makes use of the rice straw itself — taking inspiration straight from its rural setting.
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concrete handled with rice straw
On Architects’ NONSPACE Café takes form with a singular and experimental materiality of uncovered concrete with rice straw. The consequence lends a ‘straw-woven’ floor texture alongside the in any other case minimalistic interiors. The architects start this course of even earlier than concrete placement — sheaves of rice straw are laid alongside the slab kind and drenched with water, absorbing the moisture of the concrete and fusing with its floor. In the end, the slab evokes a uncooked textile and echoes the feel of its pure environment. These straw-treated surfaces are used alongside the ceilings, contrasting the graceful concrete partitions and flooring.
a panorama of rooftop terraces is designed as an aesthetic backdrop
NONSPACE CAFÉ: woven frames by on architects
On Architects designs its NONSPACE Café as a contemporary vacation spot for younger folks and locals alike. The structure takes form as an array of intersecting frames, which, along with its panorama of rooftop terraces, creates an aesthetic backdrop for social media content material. Guests may be drawn to the austere concrete, or to the picturesque rice fields framed by full-height home windows. Inside, considerate rock gardens translate the pure environment right into a rigorously curated micro-nature.
the gridded structure is dropped inside a rural setting 
the mission takes form as an array of frames 
trend-seeking ‘café-hoppers’ are invited to expertise the agricultural place
