Design firm Tropical Space has built a coffee shop inspired by a cuckoo clock in Vietnamese seaside city Da Nang.
The design, featured by Dezeen, features a brick structure with a house perched on top, with the coffee shop forming a single-storey base and the house extending out over the garden area. The local clay brick base is inset with vaulting arches surrounding a large courtyard and the glass-walled shop area.
“Habits mean most people’s daily lives usually take place in functional spaces,” said the firm’s architects. “We have detached the walls that define these spaces to offer buffer space, urging people to leave their rooms and join together.”
The house area, divided into three distinct blocks, feature spaces that can be closed off by small cuckoo clock-style wooden doors.
The shells of perforated brickwork create cool, shaded spaces that admit natural light, and reflect other designs by the firm built in the region.