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East Beach café, Littlehampton Architecture, Building, Photos, Architects

East Beach café Sussex : Architecture Information

English Building by Heatherwick Studio in Sussex, southeast England, UK



East Beach café, Littlehampton, West Sussex
2007
Heatherwick Studio

Heatherwick Studio was commissioned to design a café building to replace a seafront kiosk in Littlehampton, a traditional seaside town on England's south coast. Exposed to weather and vandalism, the narrow site sits between the sea and a parade of houses.


photos : Andy Stagg

The studio saw its challenge as being to produce a long, thin building without flat, twodimensional façades. The building is sliced diagonally into ribbons which wrap up and over the building, forming a layered protective shell, open to the sea in front.
The opening is filled with glass doors and windows, protected at night by roller shutters concealed within the building's geometry, the 30 centimetre width of the ribbons being the dimension of a shutter mechanism.

In contrast to the conventional white-washed seaside aesthetic, the building is raw and weathered, its structural steel shell finished with an oil-based coating that permits a rust-like patination to develop without affecting structural performance. A kiosk and cafeteria by day and a restaurant in the evening, the new café seats forty five.

East Beach café images / information from Heatherwick Studio






English Architecture

East Beach Café - Project Description

Location: Littlehampton, West Sussex
Function: Café, kiosk, and restaurant
Building Area: 280m²
Building Dimensions: H x 5m, L x 40 m, W x 7 m
Total Floor Area: 205 m²
Seats: 45 internal, 80 external
Exterior Structure: 8 millimetre Mild Steel treated with Owatrol Oil
Weight of Steel: 34 t
No. of Steel Ribbons: 36
Width of Ribbon: 30 cm
Completion: Jul 2007

East Beach café designers : Heatherwick Studio

Sussex Buildings



Mies van der Rohe Award Nominee 2009

Sussex Building architects, De La Warr Pavilion refurbishment : John McAslan

English Houses

Recent Building by this architect:

Aberystwyth Creative Units


 
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