Pilgrim Coffee – Dock4 Architecture
Project summary
Set in the hospital hub of Hobart’s CBD, stage two of Pilgrim Coffee sits behind an inner-city heritage sandstone facade. The refurbished dining space, opening to Liverpool Street, is connected back to the existing Argyle Street cafe via a new semi-open central kitchen. Working within a narrow volume, the existing fabric was stripped back to reveal highly textured old layers of timber and sandstone, raw and warm. New minimal, harder line elements were then added, using a restrained palate of natural, recycled and salvaged materials to accompany the richness of the original fabric. The existing café site dictated the location of the new kitchen and bathrooms, and these naturally fill the interstitial space between the two dining rooms. Inserted new services and equipment have been kept exposed and non-integral, and their sense of impermanence acts to counterpoint and heighten the robust and warm materiality of the building fabric. In response to the brief, the extension pares back dining to its essentials. The spaces are visually complex, tactile and aged but the experience is entirely contemporary.
Construction
Island Workshop – builder
Consultants
Tom Roe – photographer