“UNI ONE Coffee” is a space to display new brands and also a small shop selling Innovation and tradition coffee. It is located on a commercial street located at the heart of the old urban area of Beijing. The facade of the whole street has been renovated and wrapped by gray tiles.

Compared with the emphasis on material scale and light absorption of gray tiles, we use “self-luminous” and seamless materials in the design to make this small space close to the “pure” and “abstract” associations brought by the word “universe”.

▼街道视角，view from the street © 空间站建筑师事务所

We demolished the wall of the original entrance facade and moved the new entrance back 1.5 meters to make it a luminous square deep in the shadow of the “hole”. All the traditional materials related to the external Street: gray tiles and cement floor ends here. Inside this dividing line, there is only the white with the material properties disappeared.