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DECIPHERED Code Black Coffee 15-17 Weston St, Brunswick VIC codeblackcoffee.com.au Photo: Michael Kai
Set in an inner-city double-fronted warehouse shell, Code Black is the new roastery and headquarters of the Melbourne-based Cafenatics operations. With the roasting process on full display and a strong use of raw black steel, stained OSB board and concrete, the space communicates a language of rawness and simplicity as a stripped back, masculine, almost reverential ode to the coffee bean. Seeking to accommodate both a new roasting operation and the HQ for the current administration of the existing business, alongside a public coffee outlet, Code Black Coffee comprises two mirror image warehouse shells. One side houses the primary coffee roaster and coffee outlet, the other the administration, operations and dispatch. As a customer entering the coffee outlet your eye is lead past the servery into the depths of the building, where the roaster holds court. Using dark, warm tones to mute the volume, lighting and form create drama within the building's shell. Yellow highlights punctuate the ceiling of the kitchen and office areas, while fabric seating is a Josef Frank coffee bean illustration imported from Sweden. Materials throughout reflect the Code Black branding as the hue of the black colour base, and a strong use of raw black steel maintains a masculine, raw and simple feel.
CONTACTS Zwei Interiors Architecture: (03) 9696 3104 or www.zwei.com.au Volker Haug (Lighting Design): (03) 9387 1803 or www.volkerhaug.com