NORD coffee was designed specifically using timber as a visually engaging, aesthetically inviting material that also met the very tight budgetary constraints of this small commercial fitout for a new coffee shop ($10k total fitout). Birch plywood is used for all joinery elements, while pine dowels comprise the wall and ceiling ornamentation.

This project is a study in facilitating complex design outcomes using computational design and digital fabrication tools to manage a multitude of components and unique constraints. In the case of NORD, over 3000 individual dowels have been set into the walls and ceiling to form a visually stimulating, oscillating pattern whereeach element is placed at a unique angle and varying depth/length. A 5-axis CNC was utilised for the precise angles drilled into the substrate layer of plywood, with the dowels all hand-painted and placed.