DESIGN NAME: MTV Flyp
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Cafe
INSPIRATION: Flyp@Mtv, is a spatial representation of the Mtv India TV Shows, sporting the urban youth, music and the new world culture. Most importantly the space needed to have the Flipping quality, such that it can behave in multiple verses as cafe, restaurant, co-working space and a concert hall for music performances to jamming sessions. The space thus needed to have a very rustic quality to itself which is in line with the signature shows of Mtv India.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Mtv Flyp is an urban cafe and brewery which stays as a co-working space by the day to Flyp into a buzzing restaurant with a bar and a brewery by the night, designed for the young crowd this space is done with notion of shows of mtv India and the new music genres in practice these days. This restaurant is meant and designed for large performances to happen where established and new talent can perform. This project has been designed as a road side cafe, that is surrounded with container trucks and has a representation of on the road concerts in a container.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Entering in to the space the guest interacts with a merchandise area which is done up in a mini van kind of a display with more than 1000 Edison bulbs hanging from the ceiling to create intrigue. Moving further is the bar counter that denotes the love for music that is MTV, done up with speakers and mics, adorning the walls are angled bricks with graffiti on them creating a funk style. Further up ahead is the courtyard area that has an open-able roof that is the main performance area. The bar counter here has been done in an old matador van where as the stage here is done up in a container parked on top of a truck chassis.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: MTV Flyp is located in sector 26 Chandigarh India, was started in Nov 2106 and completed in april 2017.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The flooring is done in vitrified tiles along with wooden battens. the walls are cladded with fly ash blocks fixed with a central band that has the bricks in 45 degree orientation to the bricks underneath to create an unusual surface. The brick walls have then been given a lacquer coat. The ceiling is done in MS perforated sheet with acoustic foam. The bar counter has been cladded with speaker cones with mics working as light fixtures on top of the bar, the outdoor walls have been cladded with container doors on one side and cement punning on the other side with graffiti running on almost all walls.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Spread in a total are of 600 sq.mt on a single level with 200 covers.
TAGS: restaurant, bar, pub, brewpub, cafe, chandigarh
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: A through research was conducted to understand the ethos of MTV, which in inida not just stands for the latest music but also for its themed reality shows, which now have a cult following. The feel of the space has been derived from these shows to have an immediate connect with the guest arriving.
CHALLENGE: MTV Flyp is foremost a performance space that had to necessarily stay as a co-working space during the day and fyp into a buzzing cafe with performances. Along with this the space had two distinct areas, the enclosed space and the courtyard space that had to be integrated together and create a unitary space all oriented towards the performance stage. The space was hence done in three levels to create a space apt for crowds watching performances.
ADDED DATE: 2018-04-03 12:34:55
TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Devesh Bhatia and Pratyay Chakrabarti
IMAGE CREDITS: Sameer Chawda
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