30 years ago, the boiler room in Xiamen was converted into a super cool cafe, a natural industrial space.

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Xiamen Boiler Cafe

The predecessor of boiler coffee

It is Xiamen with a history of 30 years.

The boiler room of Huamei cigarette factory

The venue has its own "cool" gene.

Now, the once-busy scene has disappeared, the workers have left, and the basic facilities in the factory have long been emptied, leaving only the empty factory structure.

Even Japanese architect Shoisuke Fujimoto, attracted by its unique sense of age and industry, came to see it. Tall old factory buildings, black cast iron windows and stairs, as soon as you enter here, you can feel the strong flavor of the times.

Today's boiler coffee.

In order to create a rough industrial style, most of the other cafes are racking their brains, but the old factory buildings rely on their inherent advantages, which is the natural loft industrial space. The cafe does not have too many hardware improvements, and even the broken corridor windows are not specially covered. Designers try their best to preserve the original ecology of the plant, but optimize the details a little bit.

A cafe on the second floor

"it's hard to find a second one in Xiamen with a well-preserved old factory like this."

The designer of boiler coffee, Zhang Wei.

He just wanted to find an office space for his design team, but he came here by chance. The designer met it and was also attracted by its antiquated temperament.

In his hands, the old factory has changed.

When he first came here in 2015, he was inexplicably excited to see such an intact old workshop, as if he had discovered the treasure. Soon he rented the place and planned to make an innovative renovation of the old factory building.

When he first came to this place, Zhang Wei just met the workers who were dismantling the original 16 small supporting pillars, and he immediately came forward to stop it.

Because he intends to use the smallest changes to achieve the maximum value of this boiler space.

The space on the second floor before renovation

Later, he thought that these dilapidated cement columns were arranged together regularly, and that it would be better to add an iron table on it, which could not only leave its unique trace of time, but also make rational use of them.

So now you will find that the boiler coffee table is modified by these cement pillars, just right!

In front of these big guys-- the old pneumatic stove, the designer moved here specially from the neighboring factory building, but it is the sign of boiler coffee.

Not only do they have the role of decoration, designers also transform them into incubators and craft beer buckets.

Mottled walls, shabby glass windows It was the designers who made a lot of effort to keep it.

It is rare for Xiamen to have such a cafe, which breaks through the small and beautiful fresh wind, publicizes the atmosphere, and is transparent and comfortable.

In terms of production, beakers, test tubes and measuring bottles hold coffee, Mojito and Tira Misu, which look as stunning as they taste.

Commercial value of space

The boiler started business and made coffee and space for half a year, and half a year later, it began to upgrade the bar. The future incubation needs to be based on a relatively large-scale and mature community before we will start it. " Wu Chunpei, an engineering graduate, has a clear timetable and calculator in mind for what will happen in the future.

In addition, the use value of another space extended is shooting. A beautiful place will naturally attract teams who want to shoot here, whether they are photos of private wedding students or film and television commercials, which bring revenue at the same time. It's also the best publicity.

Of course, ordinary tourists will not see this form. People only know that this coffee shop, which opened in March this year, has already hosted dozens of special activities, large and small, from church-style weddings, electronic music parties, Texas hold'em birthday parties with the theme of bunnies, to the activities of Grandpa Meng Meng, a famous grandfather in the cooking fairy village in Japan, to cook rice on the spot.

On days when there are no special events, the boiler is open from afternoon to evening, serving Western-style coffee, desserts, light snacks and high-end dinners in the evening. The daily passenger flow reaches 50-100, and there are often full achievements on the relatively deserted weekends in the park. I am afraid that such an achievement will be the envy of many young writers and artists who say that "cafes cannot support themselves." however, behind this is the credit of business planning.

"Boiler Coffee" not only depends on coffee profit, what he wants to create is a complete, inclusive and comprehensive Xiamen cultural creation space. The whole building is based on design, as well as home, tea, exhibition, space design and office, bar at night, and so on, which is actually a combination of space.

There are also bars and so on in the evening.

Xiamen is actually a city with a very high density of cafes. If you want to use coffee to make a profit, it is a business model that you will not recognize. Although it is called 'boiler coffee', it is not a traditional cafe concept, and there are many profit models behind it. "