Run Run Run cafe has a dangling vegetable backyard and see-through showers
Greater than food and drinks is obtainable inside this wholesome cafe in Madrid, the place structure apply Workplace for Political Improvements has included a bunch of quirky services.
Run Run Run takes over a nook plot in Madrid’s Rios Rosas neighbourhood.
The 2-floor cafe, which additionally hosts a operating membership for locals, contains showers and lockers, in addition to a vegetable backyard that grows components required for the dishes on the menu.
Domestically primarily based Workplace for Political Improvements hopes this clashing mixture of services will encourage individuals to “use town in a different way”.
“Its an infrastructure that turns town right into a playground and a spot for individuals to rework their our bodies,” stated the apply.
“It helps emancipation from home areas and supplies alternatives for interhuman gathering by actions that often promote individuality.”
A social safety workplace beforehand occupied the positioning of Run Run Run, however its fit-out was fully stripped again to depart behind only a handful of concrete columns.
The apply labored round these columns to erect an inner greenhouse-like construction, composed of mint-green metal beams and sheets of plastic.
Spherical glass orbs planted with soil and greens have been suspended within the slender void between the greenhouse and the facade of the constructing, permitting passerby on the road to get an up-close glimpse of the produce being grown.
There’s additionally a purple neon signal denoting the cafe’s identify.
The apply has utilized a vibrant mismatch of colors and supplies inside on the bottom ground, the place the primary cafe space lies.
Natural cellulose was used to create a grainy floor texture throughout the ceiling, which has been painted pink. Wooden and pale, veiny marble have then been spliced collectively to type a patchwork ground.
Shiny orange eating tables have been dotted all through. A few of them again onto bubblegum-pink seating cubicles with scalloped edges, whereas others are surrounded by bespoke chairs that the apply designed itself.
One mannequin has a vermillion-red steel body, with a criss-cross base and meshed round backrest.
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The opposite model of chair has a extra blocky type and consists of sea-green bricks created from wax and pine tree resin.
“[The chairs] seem like fairly steady architectural components, as a strategy to underscore the mutability and lightness of the remainder of the weather in Run Run Run’s structure,” the apply’s founder, Andrés Jaque, informed Dezeen.
The apply’s daring palette continues down on the lower-ground ground. Right here there is a informal assembly space anchored by a protracted brass and marble desk, illuminated by an exposed-bulb lamp that dangles above.
Behind are the showers, solely separated by a pane of glass. If customers dare to get naked, they will go away their belongings within the spherical silver-metal lockers that reach from the wall.
Workplace for Political Innovation was established in 2003 by Andrés Jaque. The architect has most just lately collaborated with Ivan Munuera to create a brief movie on the influence of coronavirus, which premiered throughout Dezeen’s Digital Design Competition.
The movie, titled The Transscalar Structure of COVID-19, reveals how the pandemic has affected every little thing from the economic system and the constructed atmosphere, to air pollution ranges and wildlife habitats.
Pictures is by José Hevia.