Kapal Api Global Office Offers A Playful Working Atmosphere Inside a Modest Building
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22.Feb.2019

In Tanah Abang, an urban area filled with shophouses, Kapal Api Global Office is standing with an eye-pleasing facade. It has an outward angular modular pattern and Toraja-shaped roof. Beside those, the use of precast concrete as a dominant material on the facade gives a strong character to this building.

The architect, Cosmas Gozali, explains this angular facade is expected to reduce the surrounding noises, while the modest color of the precast concrete is chosen to let the building to not stand out among the crowded urban characteristic. To represent the Kapal Api’s coffee farms located in Toraja, the building is topped with a Toraja-shaped roof.

 

When entering the building, the ambiance of coffee is experienced through the brownish interior color, reflected from the coffee seeds. The various shape of 3D decorative panel is treated as a background for the receptionist wall and continuously from the mezzanine to the fourth level. This panel takes a shape from blooming coffee seeds to represent the company’s main product. There is also a coffee lab in this area to allow product demonstration for the guests.
 
 
   
 
Source : Archinesia


Tags : tanah abang, urban area, new facade, kapal api global office, bangunesia, indobuildtech
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