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Maxhosa Cafe & Micro-Roastery

Café & micro-roastery concept for MAXHOSA Africa

Café interior with a timber-clad column, pendant lamps and geometric patterned walls.
Arrival into the caféInterior render

An academic café and micro-roastery concept exploring how MAXHOSA Africa’s visual identity can shape a hospitality space. Geometric motifs move between wall panels, textiles and packaging, while timber, green stone and terracotta bring the different spaces together.

Design · Madison Falcke

A place to gather

Timber-clad columns and clusters of pendant lights give the café its rhythm. Terracotta chairs and patterned wall bays frame smaller seating areas around the central service counter.

Interior render of café seating arranged around timber columns, with terracotta chairs and patterned walls.
Seating areas around the timber columnsInterior render
Interior render of the café ordering counter, with geometric wall panels and seating in the foreground.
The ordering counter and café seatingInterior render

Coffee at the centre

The roasting equipment and tall bean dispensers are treated as part of the interior. Set against timber cabinetry, the equipment gives the coffee-making process a visible place in the café.

Interior render of a coffee roaster and tall bean dispensers set against timber cabinetry.
The micro-roastery and bean displayInterior render

Out onto the terrace

Stone paving and a suspended fabric canopy distinguish the terrace from the interior. Long counters, banquettes and round tables offer different ways to sit, with string lights running beneath the canopy.

Interior render of a café terrace with long counters, stone paving and a suspended fabric canopy.
Long counters beneath the fabric canopyInterior render
Interior render of round tables and banquette seating beneath fabric panels and string lights on the terrace.
Terrace tables and banquette seatingInterior render

A smaller room, the same language

The bathroom carries the café’s material and pattern choices into a more intimate space. A sculptural mirror sits above a green stone vanity, with geometric wall treatments and terracotta surfaces around it.

Interior render of a bathroom vanity with a dark stone basin, sculptural mirror and geometric wall pattern.
Pattern, stone and the sculptural vanity mirrorInterior render
Interior render showing a sculptural mirror above a green stone vanity, beside terracotta and patterned walls.
The green stone vanity and terracotta wallInterior render

The café, in plan and elevation

The restaurant plan maps the relationship between seating, service areas and terrace tables. The elevation shows how the diamond motif repeats across consecutive wall bays. Open either drawing for a closer view.

The arrangement of the café and terraceFloor plan
The diamond motif across the café wall baysInterior elevation

Bathroom layout and detail

The bathroom plan and section show the arrangement of cubicles, basins and circulation, alongside the patterned wall treatment used in the renders.

Bathroom fixtures and circulationFloor plan
Bathroom wall treatment and vanitySection drawing

From the room to the table

The project extends into packaging and menu concepts. Its visual identity draws on Xhosa initiation body clays, natural landscapes and beadwork, bringing geometric pattern and a richly pigmented palette to coffee bags, cups and printed menus.

Concept packaging mockup with coffee bags, boxes and cups using geometric motifs.
Coffee packaging and takeaway cupsBrand concept mockup
Concept menu mockup beside a coffee cup and coordinated café packaging.
Menu and coordinated café packagingBrand concept mockup
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