这间咖啡馆位于中国四大名园之一——苏州留园，浸润江南园林的妙趣写意，沾染历史的悠远厚重。而它本身也是有些年代的“老家伙”。 在此建筑的生命体系里，咖啡店仅经营渗透其中一个时间切片，我们洞察空间的可持续利用，将如何最大程度保护其历史价值，同时令此商业空间融于园林氛围，作为此案的首要课题。 我们给出的方案是——悬停。从设计理念到施工方案，将功能空间“悬停”在此历史建筑物上，避免与其产生过多的依附和粘连。扣出圆形软膜天花板用钢丝绳作牵引、钢柱作支撑，将其腾空悬置于原建筑屋顶之下，如此，不仅满足视觉和功能需求，也与原建筑保持适当的“边界感”，令后续的拆除或翻新不“牵连”原屋顶；另外，以透明亚克力作天花板隔断，辅以补充照明，使来客抬头得以观赏到园林特色的屋顶原貌。现代工业材料与老房梁的视觉交错，形成多重观赏感受。 在视觉美学上，本案大范围地使用了圆形和圆柱，日轮状的环形顶灯，满月形的苏式门洞，园林廊道的经典圆柱，辅以明快简约的线条，特色鲜明而又和谐自然。客座区域中，将照明与亚克力装置艺术结合（装置呈漂浮物状，点题此案“悬停”概念），在维持用材的统一性基础上增加视觉亮点。 我们将多元的社交关怀作为设计的重要考量，不仅考虑到咖啡空间的社交需求，同时也关照到“拒绝社交，享受独处”的需求，“e人区”与“i人区”共享有限的客座空间，以装置照明作为区隔，座位朝向“互不干扰”，使多元需求的顾客能够自在地“悬停”于同一空间。 借用建筑原有的木门，使其呈打开状，作为独立休息区的隔断（此举亦减少对木门的人为推拉，降低损耗），并将此空间让渡为公共空间，为没有消费需求的往来游客、路人提供休憩场所，不进店消费也不至于尴尬，彰显人文关怀。另外，此区域也可作为拍照打卡区，为咖啡店带来无形的商业价值。 我们怀着对历史炽热而浪漫的情感，为此园一隅做下时代脚注的同时，最大限度地保留了原建筑的风貌，避免了粘连性设计，将续写的可能留白给后来者，希冀与不同时空的游人共享美好。当千百年不变的阳光透过青石瓦与玻璃窗，古今中西独有的绵密韵味似都在面前的这一杯咖啡中了。
This cafe is located in Suzhou Lingering Garden, one of the four famous gardens in China, which is standard for the fun of Jiangnan gardens and in the long history. And it was called "old one" for some years. In the living system of this building, the coffee shop operates only one slice of time, and we have an insight into the sustainable use of the space, how to maximize the preservation of its historical value, while making this commercial space integrated into the garden atmosphere, as the primary issue of the project. The solution we came up with was -- hover. From the design concept to the construction scheme, the functional space is "hovering" on the historical building to avoid excessive attachment and adhesion. The circular flexible membrane ceiling is pulled by steel wire rope and supported by steel columns. It is suspended in the air under the roof of the original building. In this way, it not only meets the visual and functional needs, but also maintains an appropriate "boundary sense" with the original building, so that the subsequent demolition or renovation does not "involve" the original roof. In addition, with transparent acrylic ceiling partition, supplemented by supplementary lighting, so that visitors can look up to enjoy the original appearance of the garden characteristics of the roof. The visual interleaving of modern industrial materials and old beams creates multiple viewing sensations. In terms of visual aesthetics, this case uses a wide range of circles and columns, annular ceiling lights in the shape of sun rings, Su-style doorways in the shape of full moon, classic columns of garden corridors, supplemented by bright and simple lines, with distinctive features and harmonious nature. In the guest area, the lighting is combined with the acrylic installation art (the installation is in the shape of a floating object, pointing to the concept of "hovering"), adding visual highlights on the basis of maintaining the unity of materials. We take multiple social concerns as an important consideration in the design, not only considering the social needs of the coffee space, but also taking into account the needs of "refusing to socialize and enjoying solitude". "e" and "i" share a limited guest space, separated by installation lighting, and the seating orientation is "non-interference". So that customers with diverse needs can freely "hover" in the same space. The original wooden door of the building is used as an open partition of the independent rest area (this also reduces the artificial push and pull of the wooden door, reducing the loss), and the space is turned into a public space, providing a rest place for tourists and passers-by who have no consumer demand, and will not be embarrassed if they do not go into the store to consume, showing humanistic care. In addition, this area can also be used as a photo card area, bringing intangible business value to the coffee shop. We have hot and romantic feelings for the history, for this corner of the park to do the next era of footnotes at the same time, to maximize the preservation of the original building style, to avoid the adhesive design, we will continue to write the possible blank to the later, hoping to share the beauty with visitors of different time and space. When thousands of years of constant sunlight through the bluestone tiles and glass windows, ancient and modern Chinese and Western unique soft charm seems to be in front of this cup of coffee.