This project sits within a courtyard of the existing Igus Headquarters factory in Cologne, Germany, which Bryden Wood originally designed in 1990. The cafe has been created as a breakout or respite space foremployees and is a pilot project for replication across all eight courtyards of the building. Its design consists of fourglazed 'pods', which divide up the courtyard and are formed by a lightweight ETFEcanopyona steel frame. Theirform echoes that of the skylights of the original building. Following the existing grid, the new envelope works around a central yellow pylon in the courtyard, its transparency intended to dissolve the boundary between interior and exterior.
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