A Coffee Pavilion

For this project, I designed an Ionic pavilion meant particularly as a place to enjoy coffee outdoors, taking inspiration from the new culture of coffee-drinking in the Baroque period. The building takes inspiration from the Temple of Venus at Baalbek, with columns radiating out from the central mass of the building. Rather than the rounded form of the Temple of Venus, I chose to maximize interior space with a square footprint and have the radiating Orders accentuate the corners. To give the pavilion a distinctly Greek air, I incorporated the Ionic order from the Temple of Apollo at Bassae as well as other elements such as the repeating acanthus antefixes and statuary. Details such as the coffee cups in the statues' hands help signify the purpose of this pavilion.