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Café KUO’S & KUO’S Showroom

Café KUO’S & KUO’S Showroom
Yong Joon-Choi

Café KUO’S & KUO’S Showroom

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She is always in a dream

As you can see in the design slogan, Café KUO’Shas beenplanned from the beginning to touch women’s hearts. It represents one of the marketing strategies called Sense marketing, and includes the experience with the value, impression, and resonanceprovided by the space.

photo_credit Yong Joon-Choi
Yong Joon-Choi

The design of Café KUO’Sstarted with minimalism.Since various functions as the showroom-type cafe had to be demonstrated, the large space given first was divided according to needs, and only a square space was left in the middle.

photo_credit Yong Joon-Choi
Yong Joon-Choi

The interior space, which can be seenstraight from the outside, may be simple, but we would like people coming to this space to take a natural look around, stay, and concentrate.We developed the design with a constant repetitive rhythm by moderating excessive design expression and creating certain patterns with lines and planes to maintain order.

photo_credit Yong Joon-Choi
Yong Joon-Choi

It seems like you can see the whole at a look, but we aim to provide an experience where you can feel and enjoy a new space whenever you change your seat.Moreover, we hope that customers staying at the cafe canrecognize their moods, faces, and behaviors that change in the space and feel the value of the'place’ to stay once again.

photo_credit Yong Joon-Choi
Yong Joon-Choi

Café KUO’S pursues a more realistic minimalism and focuses on the spots further where simple lines and planes in the space meet.It is because there must be a reason for the inevitablemeeting of the lines while finishing.

photo_credit Yong Joon-Choi
Yong Joon-Choi

And one more thing is that we reject spaces that are just pretty and not warm.

The warmth that space has is always generated in relations with people, and what IMA's projects are primarily addressing is relationships..

photo_credit Yong Joon-Choi
Yong Joon-Choi

Although the things that consist of the space are simple, the space get filled with the movements and sounds of people in harmony, by feeling blank areas and taking their time to perceive and look around the space.We believe that Dosan Park Café KUO’S will be a space that adapts to the change of seasons and culture, creates its own color, and welcomes people comfortably.

photo_credit Yong Joon-Choi
Yong Joon-Choi

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