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Design Particulars: Contraband Espresso
Challenge: Contraband Espresso
Location: Brunswick East, Victoria, Australia
Opened: 2026
Design: Taylor Knights
Panorama structure: TCL
Mural: Chris Costa
Present concrete surfaces and domestically sourced timber body all-electric roasting and sustainable manufacturing practices at Contraband Espresso, a restaurant and roastery inside a former industrial warehouse in Melbourneโs Brunswick East neighborhood.
The cafe is the second Contraband Espresso location designed by Melbourne-based structure studio Taylor Knights, which additionally led the inside design of the corporateโs authentic location in close by Preston.
Contraband arrange the Brunswick East location to function solely on solar energy, Taylor Knights mentioned in a challenge description shared with Each day Espresso Information. The power contains an electric-heat espresso roaster, whereas deliveries are made with electrical vans. The corporate additionally works with a neighborhood waste assortment and recycling enterprise to divert used soft-plastic packaging, espresso grounds and chaff.
โFor us, the challenge demonstrates that environmental duty doesnโt have to be expressed by know-how alone; it will also be discovered within the cautious reuse of buildings, supplies and locations that exist already,โ Taylor Knights Director Peter Knights mentioned within the assertion.
Taylor Knights described the prevailing inside of the previous warehouse constructing as โdarkish, inward-looking and largely remoted from its environment.โ
The studio launched a sequence of glazed openings alongside the northern facade, bringing extra pure mild into the area whereas establishing a visible connection to a brand new courtyard beside the constructing. A lot of the remaining inside was retained and cleaned, together with concrete ceiling beams and slab flooring.
Clients on the domestically sourced timber espresso counter or seated at cafe tables can soak up views of the manufacturing roastery by a timber-and-glass partition.
Double doorways join the inside to the courtyard, which Taylor Knights designed in collaboration with panorama structure studio TCL.
Benches are supported by aluminum frames repurposed from pond[er], the studioโs 2021 set up on the Nationwide Gallery of Victoria.
Beside the cafeโs entrance, a cartoon-like mural by artist Chris Costa provides colour to the in any other case restrained industrial palette.
