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Kado Coffee

Location

Jakarta

Year

2024

Type

Hospitality

Area

96 sqm

Kado Coffee exterior architecture

Design narrative

A compact urban coffee shop designed to create multiple spatial experiences within a limited footprint.

The design is organized as a sequence of compression and release. Solid planes create privacy toward the street, while rooms open inward to planted courts, filtered light, and moving air. The result is calm without feeling sealed, and precise without becoming precious.

Kado Coffee, primary living space
Kado Coffee, material detail

Material register

Honest materials, selected for how they age—not only how they arrive.

01
Textured concrete
02
Local timber
03
Natural stone
04
Blackened steel

Drawing / Ground floor

Order beneath atmosphere.

A simple structural rhythm organizes private rooms, shared spaces, planted voids, and cross-ventilation paths.

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Three design decisions

Less gesture. More effect.

01

A breathable center

A planted court acts as the environmental and social center of the plan.

02

Filtered boundaries

Screens and deep reveals protect privacy while keeping light and air in motion.

03

A restrained palette

A compact set of tactile materials gives the architecture continuity and calm.

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