Given conditions
The memory of the small existing building and the protected tree beside it had to be preserved while accommodating a new café operation.
CAFE · ADAPTIVE REUSE · Seoul, South Korea
COZIMORY
PROJECT STORY
The character of an old place carried forward into a small forest.
Rather than erasing the relationship between a long-vacant police substation and its protected tree, we transformed it into the experience of a café reopened to the neighbourhood.
DESIGN RESPONSE
Design decision
We retained traces of the original building and connected the interior to the protected tree through soft arches, pale timber and open sightlines.
Completed change
Preservation, circulation and operation became one design decision, creating a small café once again open to the neighbourhood.
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