TSEH Architectural Group

Unit Cafe

Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky

UNIT CAFE

TSEH Architectural Group

MANUFACTURERS
IVELA, Hexagon Poti, Rovasi

СLIENTS
Vasyl Khmelnytsky's fund – K.Fund

VIDEO
Koloah, Yegor Troyanovsky, Olga Beskhmelnitsyna

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
enis Zadniprovskyi, Iurii larionov, Antonina Kaplia

AREA
275 m²

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Kiev, Ukraine

CATEGORY
Coffee Shop

Text description provided by architect.

The cafe 'Unit' became one of the objects of the revitalization project of the part of the plant in Kiev and our team was working on it.

Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky
Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky

This cafe is for students who study at IT-school 'Unit Factory'. In the beginning we did not plan to build it.

But while working on the IT-school project, we understood that there was not so much space for a big canteen or a cafeteria in the reconstructed building. Then we decided to offer the investor to locate the cafe apart.

Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky
Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky

We told about the opportunity to use sea containers and after sketches we got the approval for preparing detailed documents.

The cafe became a peculiar business card, a bright spot. Residents, students and other people eat, have meetings, discuss business and get acquainted informally on the territory of Unit City - the name that was given to the territory of the revitalization.

Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky
Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky

Fourteen sea containers were used in the implementation of the Unit Cafe project. One of them is vertical and there is a staircase in it. On the first floor there is an open terrace that is located in the console way above the ground floor.

The console of the first floor is 7,5 metres. It has a great school and business centers views. There is water from the one side and it leads to the bridge entrance.

Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky
Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky

Exterior and interior have something in common. A bright green container (the first floor) is partly painted in this colour, too.

There are comfortable sofas, tables with chairs and plants on the ground and on the first floors. There is a kitchen, a lavatory and pantries on the ground floor. The total area of the cafe is 275 m2.

Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky


Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky
Unit Cafe
© Mihail Cherny - Evgen Zuzovsky


Unit Cafe
Ground Floor
Unit Cafe
1st Floor Plan

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