Eat Good Food Café, Kolkata

KOLKATA
- +91 99032 22867

70B Jatin Das Road, Ground Floor,
Kolkata 700029, West Bengal, INDIA

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BENGALURU
- +91 80413 11951

5 Rest House Crescent Road,
Bengaluru 560001, Karnataka, INDIA

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- - - Eat Good Food Café, Kolkata
- - - NAME
    - Eat Good Food Café, Kolkata
  - - LOCATION
    - Park Circus in Kolkata, West Bengal
  - - AREA
    - 1250 sft.
  - - PROJECT DURATION
    - 2014-2015
  - - TEAM
    - Animesh Nayak, Bushra Bakker, Kaustav Khan
- - - DESIGN CONCEPT
  - An attempt to reconnect the private life of the living quarters with the public nature of the city street. Abandoned and crumbling wrought iron balconies are restored with reclaimed Bengal hurricane shutters from the same property and perforated metal screens giving the residents the opportunity to reconnect with the street. The ground floor is converted into a bespoke café, the interiors being a combination of exposed brick ceilings from yesteryear, industrial diamond patterned mesh screens, green walls assembled with local plants and reclaimed wood, and floors of rough stone reminiscent of a traditional street café.
- - - MATERIAL PALETTE
  - - Sponge- finished cement plaster restoration on existing building
    - External balconies clad in reclaimed, wooden, hurricane shutter with distressed-polish look
    - External cladding of vertically arranged, perforated and naturally rusted steel sheets
    - Internal ceilings of exposed brick and steel diamond patterned mesh Floors and feature walls of rough textured Kota stone
    - Internal walls of lacquer coated exposed brick walls detailed with cement plaster work

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