Sofia Bistro
Kaurna Country
An adaptive re-use project on the edge of Adelaide’s CBD. Inserted into the ground floor of an 80s low-rise office building. Sofia is a bistro, an all-day diner, a warm, light-filled room that opens to the street.
Sofia Bistro
Kaurna Country
An adaptive re-use project on the edge of Adelaide’s CBD. Inserted into the ground floor of an 80s low-rise office building. Sofia is a bistro, an all-day diner, a warm, light-filled room that opens to the street.
Builder: Blank Build
Structural Engineer: SBEC
Graphics, Signage + Art Curation: Peculiar Familia
Concrete: Form-s
Landscape: dpla studio + EST
Photographer: Jonathan VDK
An adaptive re-use project on the edge of Adelaide’s CBD inserting anew space into the ground floor of an 80s low-rise office building.
Like our last project together, Part Time Lover, the approach is similar but evolved, respond to the context and create a venue, an offering and a space that provides and serves the area around it.
The project consists of two pavilions or pavilion-like structures. The bistro and the outdoor dining area.
The bistro is tucked in under a (new) corrugated bullnose roof that plays off the post-modern backdrop. The space is linear in two directions,with a continuous corrugated concrete counter along the back wall that encompasses coffee, bar and front of house kitchen. The dining area is divided into three sections, with central booths and a banquette that wraps the venue,sashless windows opening to greenery, sun and light.
