
NAVER 1784 Canteen & Cafe / Betwin House Design


Textual content description offered by the architects. NAVER 1784 Canteen & Café is a brand new kind of restaurant house the place workers can get pleasure from stylish meals, cafes, and bakeries of NAVER 1784, a robot-friendly constructing and has a differentiated system that permits actual robots to ship meals and workers to get pleasure from new and classy menus by way of a shared kitchen platform. Specifically, the restaurant house performs a key function as a take a look at mattress and was designed to supply an atmosphere during which workers can work extra creatively whereas experiencing the fast-changing stylish meal, in contrast to different restaurant areas.

The design of the house started with the query, “What is an efficient house for NAVER workers to work outdoors of the workplace?” and aimed to supply a hybrid house for each consuming and dealing, in addition to a private space for psychological stability. The house idea of “Large Eating, Small Speak” is brief for “Large Eating Room” which refers to a hybrid house the place consuming and dealing based mostly on new techniques comparable to shared kitchens, robotic supply, and cell congestion checks will be completed anyplace and “Small Speak” which refers back to the sense of varied territories that may present psychological stability to customers in every configuration.


Contemplating the person’s course of within the COVID-19 atmosphere, the first design technique was to design the important purposeful kitchen sales space, washing & return station, and seating space hygienically and systematically. As well as, to supply an atmosphere optimized for consuming and dealing and an area that fits workers’ preferences, varied forms of seating areas had been designed within the restaurant and the cafe across the core, and applicable tray sizes and particulars had been repeatedly reviewed for each meals and work. For an environment friendly circulation system, a kitchen sales space is put in across the core, and through working hours, workers can choose up meals by checking their numbers displayed on a hidden display screen system on the open counter of the kitchen sales space. On the finish of supper time, the kitchen sales space’s opening robotically closes, which fully separates the workspace from the consuming house after the kitchen operation.


As for the restaurant’s seating space, workers can expertise varied seating areas by going across the nook based mostly on the motion line that comes out of the elevator corridor of the core and enters to the appropriate, and upon getting into the corridor, they wash their palms on the washing station and select menus at a media. As well as, the southern seating space was designed with a ‘library’ idea with broad openness, seat sorts fit for human consumption alone or group conferences, and a diagonal partition association configuration which was supposed to provide stability and varied 3D senses on the identical time. The seating areas on the west and east sides are organized across the perimeter of the kitchen sales space, with easy-to-move seating sorts and bar tables designed for ready and small group eating and dealing.

On the north facet, personal rooms within the type of glass blocks and semi-open plenty for group conferences are positioned to provide a way of openness in varied methods and lowered the extent by using the entry flooring house to provide a extra secure seating house. On the north facet, there are skylights and voids that permit in pure gentle, which permits the location of mounted seats and a robot-sharing station. The cafe house permits motion from the restaurant by way of a bridge on the east facet. The house was totally open to the outside terrace by using the sliding door system on the entrance, enjoying the function of air flow, and permitting workers a brand new expertise as in the event that they had been outdoors throughout work.


On the middle of the cafe, there’s a concrete open bar with varied heights, and bench-type seats join inside and out of doors between the bar and the open terrace, permitting an expanded house by opening the sliding door. There’s a core on both facet of the central bar, round which there are a sequence of snug couch seats and huge flat seats, not discovered within the eating space, to supply one other enjoyable place within the café house. NAVER 1784 Canteen & Café actively utilized lighting design to provide totally different types of stability to every space. Within the eating room, adjustable lights on every desk and order-made lights on the ceiling are positioned, and within the cafe, flooring lights are positioned round benches and sofas. Along with total lights on double louvers on the cafe ceiling, particular person temper lights can be found to workers. Contemplating stability and concord with the present structure and inside end of NAVER 1784, concrete, aluminum, glass blocks, metallic louvers, and wooden had been used as the principle finishes to create a contemporary pure tone and method that naturally matches concrete and pure grey flooring tiles.
