One counter, morning to evening

In the first drawing a long counter runs along the back wall with a few small things on top. Tall stools stand along the front of it, a small table sits in the middle of the floor, and two people are in the room. This is the daily coffee use: the room open to whoever walks in.

The second drawing is the same room in the evening. The counter has not moved. A row of bottles and glasses stands on it now, the stools are gone, there is a second small table, and four people stand in pairs. This is the cocktail use. The walls, the door in the left wall and the big panel on the right-hand wall are exactly where they were, and so is the grid on the floor.

We put this pair first because they are the closest neighbours of the six. Coffee and cocktails want the same counter. The difference is mostly what is on it, who is standing around it, and what time it is.

What changed is what was brought into the room. In the design, connection points run across the floor. Counters and displays fit into them, and people take them out again by hand. The drawings show the floor as a plain grid and leave the connection points out, so read that as a design intention and not as something you can see in the picture.

Both uses here are plans, and neither has taken place.