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East Beach café, Sussex : Littlehampton Building

English Beach Building - design by Heatherwick Studio in Sussex, southeast England, UK

East Beach Café Building Littlehampton, West Sussex 2007 Design: 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 - 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 images / information from Heatherwick Studio East Beach café design : Heatherwick Studio

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