"The team at Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY merges the shopfront and the café into one inhabitable form. The sculptural volume defines the café as an interior body while extending outward to construct the facade of the store. Conceived as a fully operational coffee space, the structure organizes thresholds, entrances, and circulation with the precision of a calibrated system. Fornes' characteristic organic language binds these programs into a continuous geometry, open and breathable."
"From afar, the volume reads as a dynamic, aerodynamic body. Its thin aluminum surface curves upward as a vertical plane before bending forward into an enveloping form, recalling the logic of aircraft construction. Glass openings are inserted with precision, maintaining visual continuity between , store, and terminal, and reinforcing the impression of inhabiting a constructed, mobile object momentarily paused. all images by Henry Woide"
Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY created a fuselage-like aluminum envelope that unifies a Louis Vuitton store and Le Café by Cyril Lignac at Heathrow Terminal 2. The curved, aerodynamic volume uses a thin aluminum skin and precision-inserted glass to maintain visual continuity with the terminal. A single inhabitable envelope defines the café interior while forming the store facade and organizing entries and circulation as a calibrated system. An intermediate air plenum separates the café from the outer skin to enable a non-conventional airflow strategy. The lower skin reaches nearly fifty percent porosity to allow air to circulate directly through the architecture, supporting both café and terminal environments.
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