Hue 5F

This renovation covers one floor of a kitchen studio, following earlier work on the floors above. The floor above had served as both tableware storage and library. The client now wanted it for storage alone, with the library moved down to this floor along with a new cake shop.

A library and a cake shop make an unlikely pair. Between them the design team placed a kind of backstage, a timber-lined buffer that lets each side see the other while keeping some distance.

The plan also draws spaces that seem unrelated, the library and three kitchen studios, into one place to gather. Three tables, one round, one triangular and one square, sit across these rooms like siblings and give people reasons to meet.