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this monolithic café in south korea is designed to evoke an ancient fortress

designboom | architecture & design magazine·@katbarandyIdesignboom·2 months ago
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## Monologue Café: A colossal sculpture in the landscape **Korean** studio SOSOKKI ANAC takes to a forested landscape in Gangwon-do to design this Monologue Café as a series of angular brick volumes. The monolithic structure rises from the ground in sharp, deliberate formations. The building reads as a continuous mass, its surfaces folded and inclined, with each plane catching light differently across the day. Set along a quiet edge of water and low vegetation, the project avoids a single, fixed viewpoint. As visitors move around it, the **café** shifts in profile, sometimes appearing compact and vertical, elsewhere stretched and low against the terrain. The reddish **brick** facade gives the structure a consistent material presence, while the geometry introduces variation through depth, shadow, and projection.…

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