M.I.N.E.

Coffee provides a platform for spatial discussion, more than anything a coffee
shop provides the single most efficient location for people to interact and socialise.
the informal nature of space and the ever present smell of coffee sets a location
for many efficient interactions. the huge consumption around the world of this liquid
knowledge has become almost an addiction for human relationship. The very nature of sitting,
reading, is nothing than an elegant space for humans to rest meet and form connections.
this space is therefore a surface typology, the actual space of a “shop” providing merely
a surface in which stories are written and old and new narratives formed and reformed.

what then becomes of this place in terms of architecture and what would the future of this product become?
taking a more theoretical perspective on this location it would be appropriate to start with
the process of coffee making and coffee building.

caffeine is a drug which serves to increase the speed of one’s metabolic rate
it is a morning drug, and an afternoon or evening indulgence, served in white containers
the usually black substance and the very nature of coffee is in stark
contrast to the surroundings in which it is consumed. This almost quiet irony is the focus in which the project occurs.

A dark mocha coffee shop. (with cream on top) the spent coffee beans are formed into bricks and turned into construction
material, the project then develops to reasearch on the colour of coffee and its subsequent colours that arouse from its planting picking,
roasting, planting and roasting until final consumption and spillage. Reminders of the worlds cheapest and most expensive coffee trigger
memories of the smell of coffee in the morning. The used coffee bags aren’t used as a form of texture or fabric or seating but
becomes more important the actual fibres and textile turned into placemats and packaging material, rather than an aesthetic object.
The visitor to the shop would in part take home a part of the farm in which the coffee has grown. this packaging is then relocated
into the home or office or park or any part of the city which signify’s a place of rest, relaxation or conversation and meeting.
a trace of flavour.