28/08/2026
CALM COFFEE, Jayanagar by Studio Dashline
The project began not with a material, a form, or an image, but with a feeling.
The brief was simple: to create Calm.
Not as silence. Not as softness. Not as an aesthetic. But as a state of being within the city.
Amid the constant movement of Jayanagar, the space was imagined as a pause, carved from a single dark mass. Walls, counters, ceilings and seating become fragments of one monolithic form, shaped through subtraction.
Burnt umber, deep terracotta and muted mineral surfaces absorb light and hold shadow. The counter anchors the room with weight. Seating emerges from walls. Objects rest quietly within recessed shelves. Daylight enters slowly, revealing the space only in parts.
Every decision returned to one question:
How can architecture make you slow down?
Because Calm is not the absence of movement.
It is the moment when body, light, material and time begin to move at the same pace.
Floor tiles: Nexion | Sintered Ceramic Surfaces
Wall Finish: CRETON
Table top tiles: Marfil Tiles
Terracotta Tiles: Brick Tiles | Bricks Cladding | Terracotta Tiles
Furniture: COMFORT ZONE
Architectural Lights: Aura Illumination
Coffee Counter Finish: Stonelam- The Finest Natural Facades
Decor: ellementry and Nicobar
Coffee Consultant: Soudh Ibrahim
Design Team: Ar. Shivangi, pranav_dakoria, Shriya Bajaj and धीरज बजाज
Photographer: Yash R Jain
Model: Shriya Bajaj
Client: Calm Coffee and Anish Mysore