20 Inspiring Small Coffee Shop Designs in Detail

Architects can make a lot of a small space—creative small coffee shop designs are a great proof for this. You can use lighting to transform the perception of a room’s size, place some space-saving furniture, or extend it to the outdoor. In fact, some of the greatest coffee experiences around the world happen in small coffee houses.

20 Inspiring Small Coffee Shop Designs in Detail:-

Arch2O listed 20 of the best small coffee shop designs around the world with the design drawings to inspire you!

• zmianatematu | xm3

“The only element added is this alien form, a “hub” that creeps to the volume of the small coffee shop design from the inside of the building, which then creates the bar and divides the space into several functional areas. We can also see another division. This what is new and touches with the recently renovated external elevation of the building (the outside classical world) is new and white. The internal: dividing and construction walls as well as ceiling are in raw roughcast.”

• Jury | Biasol

“The theme of irreverence led us to play with ideas – ideas that created a contrast between dark bluestone walls and a palette of bright colours and blond timbers in the small coffee shop design. Along with these ideas of colour, we used a mix of raw materials, plywood, structural timbers and concrete that allowed us to form a geometric colour pattern within the feature wall of Jury. This structure created a playful effect, one that brought the site to life and allowed it to move on from its dark past, as well as embrace a sense of fun for the future.”

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• DALLAH | Associated Architects Partnership

“The making of the dallah always highlights the coalescing of the finest and most exotic ingredients an Arabic household can offer from spices and condiments that have been shipped and traded along the silk route such as cardamom, cloves and saffron. It is with which hosts illustrate their pride, exhilaration and gratitude to their visitors and passersby.”

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• Option Coffee Bar | TOUCH Architect

“Option Coffee Bar is a great example for a small coffee shop designs in the city center of Udonthani, Thailand. It has a limited land area which can be approached from the main street directly. There are three primary functions which are café, restaurant, and bar, together in one space with time-sharing functions; café / bakery and healthy food restaurant in the morning, while using as a craft-beer bar in the evening.”

 

• The Fluted Emerald Elgin Cafe | RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio

“We began by understanding the functional demands coupled with our modern and refreshing interpretation defined by design, materiality, and brand. Once inside, customers are invited to engage with the play of materials and the spaces they form in the cafe. One part forms the cafe area which has more of a day dining aesthetic while separating the private dining room through sliding folding shutters.”

• Koji Saryo Café | Atsushi Suzuki + Transit Branding Studio

“During the process of making koji, heat is released when microorganisms consume organic matter—which is to say, the warmth of fermentation is a vital, living warmth that changes second by second. This space was designed with a similar mindset. For instance, the flushed red fixture surrounded by benches in the center of the room is intentionally lowered to eye level to create striking contrast in hue when viewed from outside.”

• Together Apart Cat Café | Davidson Rafailidis

“Davidson Rafailidis received a brief to transform the space into a cat café for a local entrepreneur, Buckminster’s Cat Café. Cat cafés offer a unique typology, given health regulations that demand an air-tight separation between animals and food preparation—in this case, cats and coffee. This requirement allowed ​Davidson Rafailidis ​to expand on the studio’s interest in designing partitioned spaces that support programmatic flexibility but still imply and encourage togetherness and community.”

• Cafe that Resembles Jeju Island | STARSIS

“With this, we decided to include the vibe of Jeju embracing nature in the small coffee shop design. The nohyung-dong cafe “Simsim” was named with the people who desire the humdrum life in Jeju in mind, and visitors will be sucked into the laid-back atmosphere. Placed in the building “Soom”, recently built by Todot Architects, cafe Simsim hopes to be a comfortable shelter full of dirt scent in the heart of Nohyung-dong.”

• Tewa Cafe Ayutthaya | BodinChapa Architects

“The front of the small coffee shop design uses lines inspired by carp weaving by choosing to use gray brick material to line up the welcome line and to define the lines of the walk into the area of the shop. This brick line coils and connects the outer space into the building. The part that flows into the building brings green space into the interior as well. Including the gray brick line at the back that serves to connect the Tewa Café area to the original context of the Patewaraj restaurant as well.”

• Canvas Café Bali | Studio Tropis

“Located close to Sanur iconic beach, the harbor point from Bali to the Nusa Islands, Canvas Cafe small coffee shop design embraces the contemporary tropical theme into the design. The name “Canvas” is chosen to show the “playful” character of the cafe — where it’s supposed to feel more like a home full of creativity, a hub for creative people.”

• Fikafabriken Shopping Street | small scale projects

“The renovation and the small coffee shop design in Tokyo has brought a new angle to the local shopping street. Fikafabriken is a small independent patisserie/cafe located in Setagaya, Tokyo. The concept of the shop is inspired by the Swedish culture of Fika’h which means ‘coffee break’ in Swedish, where people relax and communicate with each other with a cup of coffee or tea and some traditional sweets.”

• Coffee no.9 | PHTAA Living Design

“Limitations of any kind require creativity in design. In this case, the interior space is 80% taken up with the coffee preparation area leaving only 20% for seating. Fortunately, the small coffee shop design has an external space by the street, which the landlord allowed the owners to use, providing the space could be used by other customers of the restaurants in the precinct, of which Coffee No 9 belonged.”

• Today is Long Cafe | Absence from Island

“The hemisphere of the setting sun has been applied in various ways on the facade. This helped form a facade with a strong geometrical language which distinguishes the cafe from its surroundings of old buildings. It allows the small coffee shop design to stand out and be noticed. One of the hemispheres became the welcome arch at the entrance which formed a short tunnel to transport customers from the hustle and bustle in Sai Ying Pun to the quiet and comfortable interior.”

• 1402 Coffee Shop in Aranya | B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio

“Within the interior space, we insert a new volume into the existing building. The small coffee shop design forms a new cafe experience that integrates the functional needs of seating, waiting area, pour-over bar, display, and landscape while dividing the open space to offer guests a variety of spatial experiences. The pigmented Dagu cement box extends to the street-facing facade of the red brick building, which defines a new visual focus for the originally dull facade, arousing the curiosity of guests to explore the space.”

• Proti Proudu Bistro | Mimosa architekti

“Current and connection are the main themes of the small coffee shop design in Prague district Karlín. Inspiration by František Křižík, the Karlín-born electrical engineering inovator, merged with the idea of connecting through good coffee and delicious food. The main bar wall, made of white perforated plywood, creates a grid, which all the components on the wall connect to – from the sliding targets of wires to the paper roll with daily menu.”

• El Moro | Cadena Concept Design

“In this small coffee shop design, classic wall tiles became the main source of inspiration, along with stained glass windows and products that have set El MORO® apart and delighted its customers for generations. The new graphic system takes into account the figurative relation between such elements and proposes a simplification in form, taking them to their minimalist expression to retain its essence but with a fresher and dynamic form.”

• Estação Ciência Cafe | Una Arquitetos

“During daylight, there is a complete transparency from the inside of the small coffee shop design whereas from the outside visitors see an opaque volume. As the night falls we have the inverse situation. The sliding glass panels allow a wide open access from the platform and natural cross-ventilation. Also the brise soleil opens for maintenance and cleaning. The internal space is organized through the cafe’s counter, the only fixed piece of furniture which concentrates all necessary installations and equipment.”

• Chimney Café | GOA

“From design to completion, it took only a short period of two months for this small coffehouse; it is less than 60 square meters’ Chimney Café, which open up in a light gesture in the courtyard of SPSI Art Museum. Passers-by from the sidewalk of Jinzhu Road could vaguely see the cafe and bamboo courtyard space through a semipermeable steel mesh wall.”

• To Tsai Tea Room | Georges Batzios Architects

“To Tsai Tea room it’s the first of half of dozen of tea rooms that were created in the area in the last ten years in a rayon of 200 meters and offer a variety of 500 teas from all over the world. The difference with the other tea room in the area, apart from its amazing collection of teas it’s that after its renovation, it combines the tea room services with a retail shop and a light tea oriented specialties restaurant in the same space.”

• Black Drop Coffee Shop | ark4lab of Architecture

“In the center of Kavala, a city located in the northern Greece, you can have an alternative small coffee shop design. The black drop is a cafe where coffee is treated more like an experience, an urban act. A stand built of mosaic becomes an interactive space for informing and exchanging views on the art of coffee. Materials such as Copper, terrazzo, exposed concrete, old wood surfaces, rusted walls give you the sense that you are a part of a laboratory where you can act and react.”