Rekyvic Volcano coffee shop

The context of HVJERFAL volcano is about adventure, Lake Myvatn, Dimmoborgir , the Myvatn Nature Baths, and HVJERFAL. The building is crafted to be an essential milestone in the journey of the visitors. The building is an arc of two ends, a starting point where the journey begins in the building itself through a story told by the lava burnt atmosphere of the interior that compliments the look and feel of the context. after living the heat inside, the building absorbs the visitors through the motion of its interior geometry to the ending point of the building which is continuation of the journey up to the volcano. The building is a part of the story that people tell once they are back home. symbolisim + burn + reverance The Interior feel about emotions, senses and experience. Ceiling aesthetics inspired from lava streams flowing from the volcano down to the building giving it identity and impowering its concept of motion continuity between the site entrance and the volcano. to engage the poetry of the space thats got a long history and had its fire memories everywhere around, the mood is designed in materials that look like they where burned, and and weathered by lava all the materials have their earthy colors, natural look imperfection and organic spirit. The Lava ceiling expression power in the unity and directionalty of its streams and clearly leading users to the other end of the building which is the start of an exciting journey. At the end their is something beyond analysis about its about the feeling when you look and feel the space, when u sense the cinematic feel under the lighting effects when u smell the decayed materials something beyond that u can sense ,,, Materialistic sustainability the climate in reykjavik is a cold climate after tracking the temprature record among the year which makes warming the building the main focus in the approach. using brick bricks as the skin of the building : -bricks are of high thermal mass and black color improves its heat absorption where it can store the heat in the warm mid day under sun exposure and release it to the inside through heat convection later in the day .