First Love Coffee
Architecture Hospitality Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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2. Front counter 5624 px 3750 px 24 MB A3 print |
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7. Water station 3648 px 5472 px 26 MB A3 print |
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8. Merchandise display 3511 px 5267 px 20 MB A3 print |
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9. Cork ceiling and copper spotlight 3553 px 5330 px 13 MB A3 print |
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13. Rose gum bench 3548 px 5322 px 14 MB A3 print |
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14. Verde Alpi marble and copper 3439 px 5159 px 13 MB A4 print |
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Description
The flagship store for speciality roaster First Love is a showcase for its coffee beans as well as a stand-up coffee bar offering takeaway breakfast, lunch and pastries. The brand’s focus on provenance and sustainability is exemplified through natural materials such as cork, copper, marble, terracotta and rose gum. The colours of the materials reflect the spectrum of reds and greens in raw coffee beans.
Questions and Answers
Who are the clients and what's interesting about them?
The flagship store for specialty roaster First Love is a showcase for its coffee beans and a stand-up coffee bar offering takeaway breakfast, lunch and pastries. The brand’s focus on provenance and sustainability is exemplified through natural materials such as cork, copper, marble, terracotta and rose gum.
What are the sustainability features?
The material palette exemplifies the coffee brand’s focus on provenance and sustainability by using natural materials that are minimally processed and recyclable. The colours of the materials reflect the spectrum of reds and greens in raw coffee beans.
What were the key challenges?
The space is very compact. It is 52 square metres and 3.4 metres wide, narrowing to 2.6m wide at some points. It has full-height glazing on three of its four walls and has high visibility on one of the Melbourne’s busiest streets.
Key products used:
Cabinets are clad in brushed copper; countertops are made from Verde Alpi green marble. Green terrazzo, which contains Verde Alpi marble chips, sweeps across the floor and up the main wall. It unifies the compact space and provides a coherent backdrop for the retail display of the coffee beans in wall alcoves that are lined in peach-coloured terrazzo with terracotta chips.
A standing bar crafted from rose gum extends along the north-facing windows and is a spot where customers can sip their coffee and look out to a pocket park. The various shades of green in the space blend with the colours of the park.
The lighting is made locally in Melbourne; the terracotta pendants are from Anchor Ceramics and the copper spotlights are from Artefact Industries.
The three-dimensional cork ceiling provides acoustic comfort and blends with the colour and texture of the precast concrete columns.
Ceiling: Havwoods Vertical cork tiles
Floor: Signorino Mornington terrazzo tile
Alcoves: Fibonacci Stone Fatima’s Reflection terrazzo tile
Benchtop: Glux Verde Alpi marble
Joinery: Austral Wright brushed copper
Bartop: Shiver Me Timbers rose gum
Lighting: Anchor Ceramics Earth pendant, Artefact Industries T-Mini copper spotlight
What were the solutions?
There are no partition walls or full-height cabinets in the space in order to keep it as open as possible. This strategy also provides the opportunity to celebrate all the operations of a cafe, including the back-of-house area.
Details
| Project size | 52 m2 |
| Site size | 52 m2 |
| Completion date | 2020 |
| Building levels | 1 |
Project team
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Fiona Drago | |
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Fiona Drago Architect | Designer |