Café Africa
CafĂŠ Africa is a high street coffee shop designed for a privately owned company. The brief was to create a social space aimed at bringing the community together in a fun but relaxing environment whilst promoting awareness of fair trade, ethical values and community spirit.
splitting and redistributing the metered supply with the residential premises above.
cut on in to the new rubber floor. The client and designer were very keen to use recyclable materials to reinforce the ethical message and therefore we worked with Ferro Design to source materials with eco friendly credentials. Some of the materials we worked with, namely Kieri board, which is derived from reclaimed sorghum straw and Ormano Palm Wood which is entirely biodegradable and from a renewable source allowed us to use our specialist joinery skills and experience to work with these new products to ensure that they were suitable for the application.
The scope of works involved the complete strip out of the shop to take it back to the shell. The shop was completely rewired with new air handling systems, flooring, The cafĂŠ and concept was designed by ceiling and lighting. The garage to the rear Ferro Design Ltd. The shop unit was of the property was converted to create originally an old run down kitchen and a hygienic storage area and the shopfront bathroom showroom. Change of use was completely renewed. Internally we had already been obtained by the client installed a new disabled toilet, refurbished however planning and building control the catering staff toilet and installed a approval had to be sought as part of the brand new kitchen from what was the old project process. We also went through office space. the complicated procedure with EON of New disabled compliant counters and The entire fit-out once on site took a total installing a new mains electrical supply in furniture were added to create this of five weeks and worked within a budget order to increase the electrical capacity unique environment with a feature coffee of ÂŁ189K. to suit the new use. This also entailed bean bulkhead and coffee bean designs
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