Café — ground floor

Package 02, sheet 2. 12.00 × 14.00 m = 168 m², to scale. Shoes stay on throughout this floor.

A proposal, not a specification. Everything on this sheet is an idea put forward for the project architect to work from. Every dimension, every position and every detail may be changed. What must survive is the intent behind it — and where a figure is fixed by law or by the turning circle of a vehicle, the sheet says so.

Key

1
The way inFrom the stone court, 1.80 m wide. It is the only public door: the canal side is a wall of glass with no door in it, so nobody wanders out towards the water.
2
The communal tableThe oval from sheet 1, turned north-south to fit: 3.00 × 6.00 m with 1.00 m clear all round, 20 seats. Put where it is seen from the door and from the canal windows both.
3
Waterfall and mistAt the north end of the well, where it is seen the moment you come in. The mist is made by an ultrasonic unit on the same recirculating water — see sheet 1.
4
Canal counter8.0 m of counter at the glass, 8 stools, facing the water. The best seats in the building, and they cost 3.6 m².
5
Loose tablesFour tables of two, 8 seats. Loose so they can be pushed together, or taken away when the communal table is full.
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Brewing17.0 m². Counter facing south into the room, back bar against the north wall, and a door straight through to the kitchen.
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Kitchen21.8 m², next to the brewing bar and sharing its north wall. All-electric, so no gas bottles and no gas store.
8
Service doorDeliveries come off the stone court straight into the kitchen, without crossing the room where people are sitting.
9
Toilet4.8 m². One, as asked. It sits in the south-east corner against the blank wall, where no view is lost, and it is the first thing you find from the door.
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StairDog-leg, 19 risers at 158 mm to the tatami rooms above. Beside the entrance, so people going up never cross the communal table.
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South wall — blankThe building stands 0.50 m off the land boundary. At that distance the law allows a solid wall and NO opening. Cut one window in it and the setback becomes 2.00 m and the building loses a metre and a half of its depth.
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North wallThe inner wall of the site runs straight off this face, so this side is blind too. Kitchen and brewing are put here because they are the rooms that do not need a view.
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Canal glassOne of only two faces that may be opened. It gets the counter, and the light.

What the floor holds

Kitchen	21.8 m²	All-electric. Adjoins the brewing bar.
Brewing	17.0 m²	Counter facing the room.
Toilet	4.8 m²	One, on the blank wall.
Stair	10.4 m²	19 risers at 158 mm.
Communal table and its clear zone	40 m²	20 seats. A quarter of the floor, for the thing people come to see.
Everything else	74.0 m²	Loose seating, the canal counter, and room to walk.
Seats on this floor	36	20 at the communal table, 8 at the canal counter, 8 at four loose tables.

The south wall must stay blank. The building stands 0.50 m off the land boundary, and at that distance ministerial regulation 55 clause 50 allows a solid wall with no opening in it. One window there and the setback becomes 2.00 m — the building loses 1.50 m of depth, about 18 m², and the whole plan has to be drawn again. Fix this with the architect before anything else.

Why the kitchen and the bar are at the north end. Only two faces of this building may be opened at all — west to the canal and east to the court. Those are the two walls worth sitting against, so they go to seating. The kitchen and the brewing bar are the rooms that do not care about a view, so they take the blind north end, where they are also next to each other and next to the service door.