The inside in Ottensen needed to assist each hospitality and audio with out asserting both too strongly. von Thien pursued his imaginative and prescient for a room that settled the senses. “I needed to create a timeless, grounding house that fits the music, an environment that invitations you to linger and really feel calm,” he explains. Cork turned central to the acoustic design. Burnt cork strains the ceiling of the primary listening room, and a required structural beam was enlarged, full of acoustic wool and wrapped in cork, appearing as a central sound absorber. The customized idea grew in partnership with Antwerp-based Studio Corkinho, whose observe attracts on the Alentejo’s lengthy custom of harvesting oak bark and remodeling reclaimed cork into objects and spatial parts with a extremely sensorial presence.
For the sound system, von Thien labored carefully with H.A.N.D. HiFi in Berlin. They developed the structure of the horns, sales space and supporting audio system, making certain the acoustic efficiency sits naturally inside the house. With 70 sq. meters to work with, each resolution counted. To outline its configuration, von Thien spent within the emptied house, finding out how folks would transfer and the place sound would settle. “I moved concepts round, thought issues by,” he shares. The footprint is compact, so circulation and bar movement needed to work intuitively.
Collaborators contributed meaningfully to the ultimate surroundings. Lisbon-based THER created furnishings items that lend the room its stripped-back readability, together with picket tables knowledgeable by Japanese woodworking strategies and produced with Portuguese carpentry studio Nó Marceneiros. Brussels-based porcelain studio Frizbee Ceramics produced the tableware used all through the café, and Vitra supported the venture with Akari lamps that carry a gentle, subtle gentle to the inside. Von Thien emphasizes the lengthy view that guided his collaborations: “The thought wasn’t to create hype, however to construct a spot that also works ten years from now.”
