Tewa Cafe Ayutthaya’s Concept:
TEWA is the starting point for a wide variety of sweet, main dishes and beverages from the traditional restaurant ‘Pae Thewaraj’, a Thai restaurant on the Pasak River that has been established for more than 40 years.
Nowadays, the grandchildren have started to manage and this is the beginning of adding dimension to the field of food this to serve many types of customers as well.
As a new generation and a culinary graduate, we wanted to add a menu to suit the era that needed a wide variety of options, resulting in Tewa Café serving drinks, coffee, and Italian food which is set up as part of the same area as the Thewarat restaurant.
Photography by Rungkit Charoenwat
With the specialty of the corner of the river that converges between the Pa Sak River and Khao Mao Canal, the area of both Phae Thewarat and Tewa Café, located on opposite banks of the water, offers views of the Pasak River with its small canals and waterfront lifestyle that is well connected to the great river.
Photography by Rungkit Charoenwat
The designer wanted to find a connection between the two stores, which had differences in food and style to be united. Therefore chose to use the concept of palm leaf carp, which is a symbol of their bond with the water as we often see people put forward to interpret this easy-to-understand story told by TEWA’s concept of a reverse perspective. Bring the palm leaves spread out, we can see the lines of the two palm leaves that curl around each other.
The front of the building uses lines inspired by carp weaving by choosing to use gray brick material to line up the welcome line and to define the lines of the walk into the area of the shop.
This brick line coils and connects the outer space to the building. The part that flows into the building brings green space into the interior as well. Including the gray brick line at the back that serves to connect the Tewa Café area to the original context of the Patewaraj restaurant as well.
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Project Info:
Architects: BodinChapa Architects
Area: 200 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: Rungkit Charoenwat
City: Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya
Country: Thailand
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