The old sugar factory in Panyu, Guangzhou was transformed into a coffee shop.

A retro cafe is like a mobile feast, always capturing nostalgic customers. Today, Chongqing Brista Coffee West Point training College is going to share with you the cafe. The whole space is filled with a thick sense of history, which is transformed from a sugar factory.

The old sugar factory in Panyu, Guangzhou is an industrial park for sugar processing and production. With the continuous transfer of industry and the honing of the sugar factory over time, the building has become dilapidated and depressed. The leaders of the sugar factory park decided to turn this huge industry into a museum, so that the old park can be completely preserved and left to the world as history and culture. The person in charge invited Mr. Guo Zun to design the sugar cooking room and transform it into a cafe.

The cooking room covers an area of 3670 square meters, and the designer Mr. Guo Zun's design strategy is to keep the theme structure of the original space unchanged as far as possible, and to carry out the design transformation of the original industrial style on the premise of maintaining the original industrial style. Break the inherent concept of functional division on the building, adopt a variety of space interspersed replacement, mutual integration of design techniques to deal with key areas. With omni-directional open space and simple use of materials, the waste sugar-making room has become a huge compound coffee shop with coffee roasting, sugar production demonstrations, bars, book bars, golf courses and other entertainment and leisure projects.

In the original sucrose processing zone, the solid wall is now transformed into a transparent sucrose processing display area, which is simple and bright, breaking through the thickness of the solid.

The voids left over from the original structure are designed and treated as private rooms, and the rest are treated as decoration of the space.

As the height of the waste factory space is as long as 9 meters, the designer uses the thin iron sheet to rotate through the whole space. In addition to the visual shock unity, the thin iron sheet is carefully punched to reduce the load while enhancing the aesthetics.

The treehouse-shaped private room is designed rationally by making use of the holes left over.

In the old industrial zone, formerly known as the sugar factory, sugarcane is an essential element, so designers incorporate sugarcane into the design, and the green branches and leaves exude the breath of nature, giving space smart vitality.

The partition area is made of local materials, and the sugar bucket on the iron frame naturally becomes a partition, and the whole coffee area is an open, semi-hidden and semi-leaky design, which reasonably creates secrecy.

Fair-faced concrete, huge steel plates, steel beams and other old elements of reductionism have been completely exposed, do not do superfluous decoration, strong industrial color. In order to soften the space, designers use logs, green plants and lights to echo each other to reduce the cold vision of steel.

In the process of transformation, the waste pipes and gears are leaked out and do not do closed treatment, so the design is simple and natural, and reflects the style of the original nature of reductionism.