IT'S SARA CAFÉ
Café in the garden
" The intertwining of layers of each element is how the boundary between outside and inside was blurred and became almost invisible. "
Trees and lawn
Sitting in the garden
Landscape layers
Sun | Rain
Roof | Indoor area
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Overall image
Front approach
Front approach
Lawn | Roof
Lawn | Indoor seating
Lawn | Roof
Roof | Lawn
Approach from parking lot
Approach from parking lot
Back terrace
With the owner’s love of gardens and trees, IF proposed this IT’S SARA café as a place where people could experience the permeation between the indoor and the outdoor space.
The intertwining of layers of each element is how the boundary between outside and inside was blurred and became almost invisible.
Components such as lawn, plants, trees and tiles are randomly placed on smooth steps continuously from surroundings into the area under the roof.
These components also define room for the outdoor space. Meanwhile components such as roof and wall are just floating over the garden with little connections through the intentionally un-aligned slim steel columns.
Translucent panels, assembled on the waffle steel structure roof, allow the natural light to interpenetrate into the covering area. Clear glass walls define the clear vision between air-conditioned volume and outside.
The property and relationship of all these layers generate the space where the artificial boundary between landscape, architecture and interior is eliminated and create a simple definition of having coffee in a garden.
Location
Owner
Architect
Landscape Architect
Lighting Designer
Structural Engineer
Electrical Engineer
Sanitary Engineer
Main Contractor
Interior Contractor
Softscape Contr.
D&W Contractor
Electrical Contractor
Nongkhae, Saraburi, Thailand
Pimpaka Wongmanasuk
IF (Integrated Field co.,ltd.)
IF (Integrated Field co.,ltd.)
Kullakaln Gururatana
Basic Design co.,ltd.
Site 83 engineering studio
Site 83 engineering studio
SE Surasak engineering
The brick design & construction
M.J. Gardens co.,ltd.
Mongkol Karnchang
ST 2511 Engineering co.,ltd.
Scope of work
Area
Design
Completed
Photography
Architecture / Landscape
Architecture
460 sq.m.(Indoor)
120 sq.m. (Outdoor)
980 sq.m. (Hardscape)
1060 sq.m. (Softscape)
Jan 2013
Jan 2015
Ketsiree Wongwan