06/04/2026
The Running Bean Bến Thành -
Hospitality Project | Dự Án Không Gian Cà Phê
Designed By | Thiết Kế Bởi NU Architecture & Design
A Pattern Across Scales
The cultural logic established in the spatial organization continues into material and surface. Floor, ceiling, wall, and tabletop surfaces share the same compartmentalized geometry, drawn from Ô Ăn Quan, a traditional Vietnamese folk game — carried across scales from the fine divisions of tabletop surfaces to the larger compositions on ceiling and wall. Repeated at consistent intervals, the geometry holds the interior together — quietly consistent across every surface and scale.
Rattan furniture, woven surfaces, and handcrafted finishes ground the interior in the same material world as the game — natural, tactile, and rooted in everyday Vietnamese life. The woven surfaces introduce their own grid: the interlaced pattern of rattan and weave creates a secondary layer of compartmentalized geometry, extending the same logic from floor to furniture to ceiling.
At The Running Bean Ben Thanh, geometry and craft operate according to the same cultural logic — carried from the scale of the plan down to the texture of surface.
(Tiếng Việt bên dưới)
Photos by Fas Đi Cà Phê,
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