Claiming to be the “world’s finest cafe”11, the Graffiti cafe in Varna, Bulgaria had combined aesthetic values with functional values through the aid of computative architecure. During its design process, one of the greatest challeges faced was the issue relating to interior ventilationm sound and acoustics, yet maintianing its aesthetics value. With this major problem aside, architects were also keen in creating an environment that as trendy and modern as the Gallery situated on the level above. By setting these parameters into the computer system, designing efficient plug-ins, they managed to develope a design that enhanced their initial intention of concealing the acoustic and insulation service systems. The resulted solution was a seperation of spaces into two zone. The front zone emphasises the public and private spaces, whilst the rear zoneis a combination of the floor and roof design to “reduce the depth of space wihile keeping the paranoma”12. Computer generated patterning are charaterised in in the front zone. beginning in a simple honeycomb
pattern for the tile patterning, designers are able to alter it so that the tiles blend perfectly with the street tiles, hence blurring the interior and exterior spaces13 This design is intended to create a comfortable environment for visitors; entering a distinctively different medium, yet maintaining something familiar. As for the rear zone, columns and roof are constructed in a continous array of timber slats. In the design of there is a highly complex layering of information and funtion involved. It is only through the detailed profile of the material as well as past precedents was the design made possible to be drafted on screen. The blur of the timber sectionings were constructed to dilute acoustics from the cafe in reaching to the gallery above. Effective use of parametric design also reduces the cost to construct a meaningful structure. Through prototyping parametric models and experimentations with material types, designers were able to achieve the same ventilation and acousitc barrier in an aesthitical way; exposing its structures rather than concealing, which would involve a bigger budget.
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