Redesign of the Café in the Museum of Communication Frankfurt
LEISE Design has designed the Café im Museum
for Communication at the Museumsufer Frankfurt has developed a concept for "redesigning the existing building". It gives the café a visible identity as a place for the first time and at the same time preserves the existing substance of Günter Behnisch's building from 1990 as far as possible.
The café is located in a room with an unusual layout: along the gallery on the ground floor with a view of the museum's permanent exhibition. A spacious glass facade opens the room to the garden.
Originally designed purely as a coffee and cake shop, lunch dishes are now also offered, which significantly changes the space requirements, logistics and processes of the business. The reorientation was successful through targeted structural changes and additions as well as a restructuring
the interaction between the kitchen and the counter area.
The new, distinctly colorful appearance of many elements contributes to the striking appearance as an independent place. The furnishings enter into a dialogue with the building and allow the café to be discovered as a new place to linger.
LEISE design team: Knut Völzke, Hans Hess
Photos: Michael Ehrhart
Client: Museum for Communication Frankfurt
Year of creation: 2014
The conversion and supplementary elements of the counter show their additive character through the targeted use of colored surfaces. The new components were formally and functionally tailored to the space and usage situation and serve as a food counter, drinks storage and mini office.
"Redesigning the existing structure" also meant preserving the existing stackable chairs. They were painted in the same color as the new colored laminate surfaces of the table tops and, together with the pendant lights, which are also the same color, form characteristic components of the new furnishings.
In order to enable effective processes in the interaction between the kitchen and the counter area in the smallest possible space, an optimization plan was created that visualizes the structure of the personnel tasks and creates a minimum of spatial overlap within the zoning.