Wedged between two non-descript apartment blocks, the one-storey volume offers patrons a calming break from the city’s hustle and bustle akin to a chapel or shrine, a sensation underlined by the interior’s monochromatic colour scheme, clean-cut design language, clerestory window, and modular furniture that can be consolidated into an altar-like volume in the centre of the space. Made out of light-toned wood, the cubic tables, chairs and sideboards that the team designed not only blend in with the room’s elemental geometry and beige colour palette, but can also completely “disappear”, designed as they are to nest around the barista’s station like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle or a gigantic horizontal Jenga. Pieced together, the furniture forms a 6-metre-long counter around which patrons can congregate for workshops, coffee tastings and other events. Regardless of the furniture configuration, FatFace’s barista takes centre stage, their station conceived as the venue’s focal point, just as it should be.