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Botanica Café — deep-green glazed shopfront with planted columns and terracotta pots on a Lisbon limestone street

Botanica Café

A planted glasshouse café on a Lisbon tram street — trellis ceiling, terracotta and brass under dappled light, photographed as the room it will become.

Overview

A glasshouse cafe rendered as the room it will become.

  1. 01CGI Stills
ClientPrivate client
LocationLisbon PT
SectorHospitality, cafe
StageConcept
Year2025
ServicesCGI stills · concept design
Deliverables10 editorial frames · process set

A planted glasshouse on a tram street, drawn in watercolour and rendered at the temperature of morning service. Trellis ceiling, terracotta and brass under dappled light, photographed as a place already open rather than a proposal.

Services delivered
CGI Stills
Cobbled courtyard with potted olives and succulents leading to the timber-and-glass café annexe, counter and azulejo panel visible inside
Street elevation of the café — three deep-green glazed bays in a limestone facade, planted columns and terracotta pots at the open door
View from inside the café through jasmine and bougainvillea over the door as a yellow Lisbon tram passes on the cobbles
Café floor mid-morning — guests at marble bistro tables among cane chairs, potted olive tree and an azulejo mural behind the counter
Barista steaming milk at the espresso machine, terracotta-tiled counter, hanging ferns and pothos above open shelves of ceramics
Looking straight up through the black steel trellis grid, vines training across it toward the glazed roof lantern
Detail of the oak joinery plinth meeting a brass floor strip set into terracotta tiles, leaf shadows across the junction
Leaf shadows from the trellis dappling a worn timber tabletop and cane chairs against the blue-and-white tiled wall
Oak window banquette with a linen cushion and a coffee cup, potted herbs on the sill and a tree-lined cobbled street beyond
Staff member watering the green wall before opening, chairs still stacked on tables and a tram passing the open door
Speckled ceramic cup of flat white on a worn timber table beside a fallen plane leaf, cane chair soft behind
The corner glasshouse glowing warm at blue hour, ferns and diners silhouetted in the glass as a tram rounds the cobbled corner
Process Images
Watercolour concept plan — banquette along the planted edge, counter, central planter table and herringbone terracotta floor
Watercolour cross-section through the glasshouse — trellis layer, hanging planting, counter and the tram street beyond
Pencil and watercolour study of the steel trellis junction with a training vine and its fixing detail
Sketchbook page of three glazed facade iterations with eaves and gutter details below
Loose watercolour light study of the café interior in greens and terracotta
Herbarium board photograph — pressed leaves, terracotta samples, oak, cane webbing and a hand-painted azulejo tile
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