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架构师提供的文本描述。建筑师能把不可能变成可能吗？这是ISM在第一次访问ISM办公室时所想到的问题。场地的三角形形状又小又长，更不用说弯曲了。场地分区限制增加了示意图阶段的难度。

Text description provided by the architects. Could architects turn impossibility into possibility? It was this question iSM had in mind when the client showed the site on his first visit to iSM office. The triangular shape of the site was small and long, let alone, crooked. Site zoning restrictions added the difficulty in the schematic phase.

分区允许4层建筑，然而，由于严格的挫折规定，建筑物必须迁离街道，以达到3层的最高高度。因此，可达到的最高楼面面积为每层24平方米，呈三角形。不包括楼梯和厕所，咖啡桌的空间也不多了。将不可能的架构情况转化为可能的商业机会并非易事。

Zoning allowed 4-story building, however, due to tight setback regulation, building had to move away from the street to reach maximum height of 3-story. As a result, maximum floor area achievable was 24 square meters per floor in triangular shape. Excluding the stairs and toilets, not much area was left for café tables. Turning an impossible architectural situation into a possible business opportunity was not easy.

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ISM为每一寸无价之宝而战。为尽量增加土地面积，并符合分区条例的规定，该幅土地的楼面结构是按照该幅土地的形状ISM采用三角形的锐角作为该项目的设计主题。ISM在一个专用的小空间内使用玻璃。为了使楼上的轻盈和楼下的沉重变得两极化，ISM用砖块完成了地下室和沉陷的花园。ISM通过对角粘合砖块来突出凹坑花园的轮廓。

iSM fought for every invaluable inch. To maximize space and to meet zoning ordinance, the floor configuration followed shape of the site. iSM used acute angles of triangle as a design motif of the project. iSM used glass inclusively in an exclusive small space. To polarize lightness upstairs and heaviness downstairs, iSM finished basement and sunken garden with bricks. iSM accentuated crook sunken garden profile by bonding bricks diagonally.

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楼梯是咖啡馆里唯一有可能发表公开声明的垂直部分。ISM折叠钢板，尽量减少楼梯的视觉存在。非常薄的钢棒被拉长，作为一个柔软的面纱，而不仅仅是一个功能护栏。玻璃上的烧蚀图案呈垂直三角形，呈条纹状。它减少了恐高症的恐惧，但在眼睛层面获得了透明度。间接的人工照明是隐藏在急剧折叠的金属板中，突出了楼梯上的钢棒和玻璃中的垂直炸裂。

Stair was the only vertical piece in the café building that had potential to make a public statement. iSM folded steel plates to minimize the visual presence of stairs. Very thin steel rods were elongated to function as a soft veil than just a functional guardrail. Fritting pattern on glass was vertically triangulated in striping pattern. It reduced fear of acrophobia, yet acquired transparency at eye-level. Indirect artificial lighting at spandrel zone was hidden in the sharply folded metal plates to accentuate the steel rods in stairs and vertical fritting in glass.

Architects iSM architects

Location Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Category Coffee Shop

Architects in Charge Joongwon Lee, Kyung-A Lee

Area 72.0 sqm

Project Year 2014

Photographs Hyosook Chin