Rafael Cunha

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ARCHITECTURE8 months ago

This project explores how architecture can act as a living system where spatial energy is not an abstract concept but a daily experience shaped through movement, interaction, and ritual. Conceived as a kinetic cafe in a small town in Zhejiang, China, the design integrates branding, interior architecture, and mechanical elements into a coherent spatial narrative. Through rotating plans, movable structures, and responsive facades, everyday actions such as entering, serving, sitting, and gathering become carriers of architectural meaning. The project positions the cafe as a social condenser, where space actively participates in shaping community life.

ARCHITECTURE8 months ago

This project explores how an existing building can be re read through deliberate structural disruption. By inserting a visible and intrusive structural system, limiting demolition, and working systematically with lines, colour, and reflective surfaces, the intervention transforms friction and imperfection into architectural agency.

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