Concrete Finishing To Furnishings – Egan’s Juice Bar & Roof Terrace

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Beautifully adorned in concrete, Egan’s Juice Bar by Architectural firm 53seven transcend concrete finishing into building furnishes.

A concrete sculpture designed beautifully with intersection of various forms and a floating roof is the recently opened Egan’s Juice Bar and Roof Terrace in Ireland.

As a project brief, the architects were ought to retain few parts of the protected structure and arranged varying programs within. The architects conceptualised both the café and the Juice bar as a continuous flow of space and treated both with the same quality by materials however creating varying ambience by treating the structure differently. Designed to serve two different programmatic requirements the architects have beautifully stitched the components to bring out the essence of each function.

Architects have designed a floating monolithic roof casted in concrete including vertical and horizontal concrete walls. On the Ground Floor an intimate Café exists, constructed with concrete which is continued to the first floor and also acts as the parapet and later artistically forming a support to roof structure. The café interiors are derived with the same materials becoming the furnishings of café inventively. The café interiors reflect the continuity with outside because of the flow of materials within the space and further extending to the furniture of space. Only pieces of furniture and other accessories which flow out of concrete band are the handmade oak stools and benches, blackboard for the menu, a light frame, and a series of mirrored surfaces. Interestingly the use of mirror reflects the previous function of the space – the barber shop!

On the first floor the area constitutes of cocktail bar on top of the Café and a terrace which is again draped in concrete. The continuous roof at the rear is an amalgamation of various forms where the concrete roof is ascended above so as to reduce the structural impact. Magnificently designed roof possess slits which allows distinctive and interesting patterns of natural light during the day and moonlight during the night and create social spaces on the first floor. As delivered in café, the furniture here too comprises of cast and poured concrete.

Egan’s Juice Bar & Roof Terrace is a fascinating space with extensive use of concrete in an innovative way within a restricted space and still creating elements of revelations with use if its enigmatic façade.

Text Compilation: Rati Singh

Photographs: courtesy the architects

Architects website : http://www.architecture53seven.com/