Location: Bhubaneshwar, Odisha
Area:  100 sq. m
Year: July 2021

The café lies in the vicinity of the Government Craft Museum, “Kala Bhoomi” in Bhubaneswar. The Craft Museum is located on a large open ground, with open and semi open spaces within itself. The design intervention in the café, required, to design weather shed, over 3 existing open seating’s. The seating’s were casted in site in laterite with granite top. 

The shed was designed keeping in mind the following:

• Design which could complement the existing aesthetics of the museum which has a strong vernacular appeal.

• Design which also aligns with the brand identity of our client “Bocca café”, which already had couple of other branches in the city, where the visual  aesthetics were rather contemporary.

• Cafe also aimed to become another hangout joint in that corner of the city like its other branches, target user aspiration & experience, pertaining the youth between 20 to 35 yrs.

• Response to the existing in-built furniture at the site, which was made of laterite stone and granite top.

• Structural concept, which take support from the existing kitchen shed and the in-built furniture.

As a design decision, the simplest form was worked upon with locally available solid bamboos (mix of D.Strictus & Nutans), to create a cozy yet semi open private space at each table. Taking support from the base of existing benches & table. Thus creating 3 spherical pods which further acts as a stable structure to support and give shape to the roof above.