GL Café follows the civic development of Gresik City. As the designers, we commenced the duty of designing an urban café with a tropical garden surrounding by. We are responsible for creating a welcoming space for residents while also attracting alternative possible markets.
Year & Duration 2024 (12 months)
Client Greenland Residences
Role Associate Architect
Tools Used Sketchup, Blender, Autocad
Type Commercial
The challenge for this commercial project was how to represent the brand identity of the GL Café while still being attractive to new potential customers and creating a design that is not odd to the local community yet delivering exquisite aesthetics. The problem statement focused on how to represent the strong brand of the GL Café in the design.
“We are struggling to find a design that attracts the farther market and has the need to keep being populated by the local community.”
“Various research was done about the market in that location and the visitors' needs. After analyzing the survey and report from the community, we created a design that is suitable for them and incorporates a modern look to attract visitors from other cities.”
The new design has resulted in increasing numbers of café visitors and the number of visitors from outside the city has gone up. The community prefers a café that is aesthetically appealing for their social media posts.
GL Café brings a new perspective and a different experience for visitors: having an aesthetically appealing design that blends with the quality of
products that the place has to offer. This brings a competitive advantage for our client and another advantage is from the locally sourced materials.
It results in cost-effective construction, reduced labor, and reduced concrete construction allocation.
Adapting the curved roofing created a unique architectural arrangement and the beams blend into the spatial design as well. The curved roofing
increases attractiveness visually and is part of the sun shading to prevent unwanted solar heat gain. The purpose of the spatial design is as well to
provide a different experience to the visitors.
The greeneries around the café were provided from the existing residential area and enough to accommodate the characteristics of the
community area. The qualities of the design are uncommon, cost-effective, efficient construction, and utilize environmentally friendly materials.
Development for other spatial designs in the area is projected to be designed by us soon.
