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Drunk N’ Jump Robertson Quay



Located along the riverfront in Robertson Quay, the community bar is in the heart of Singapore’s central district. Set within a conserved warehouse building, the venue is housed in a former industrial structure with a double-pitched roof, original concrete finishes, and an internal ceiling height reaching nearly 10 meters. The historic site, with its raw spatial character and rich local context, provides an ideal platform to reinterpret the brand’s core values—community connection, collective spontaneity, and a city-centric social atmosphere—within the tropical climate and urban conditions of Southeast Asia.

The total usable floor area is close to 200 square meters, though a substantial portion is reserved for the kitchen and back-of-house. The design challenge was to amplify a sense of gathering and interaction in the remaining front-of-house area. The strategy was to structurally reorganize the three architectural surfaces—roof, floor, and walls—resulting in a redefinition of the site’s internal order and a fresh spatial proposal for how people connect through architecture.


The original concrete floor slab was retained as a grounding element, while two raised platforms were inserted to introduce topographical variation. These gentle elevation changes serve both spatial and social functions: patrons can casually sit on the steps to drink and chat, evoking the informal charm of sitting on a city curb. The tiered ground also creates vertical layering, activating the tall section of the space while offering clear sightlines. The two curved platforms are arranged with a centripetal geometry, encouraging physical and social convergence at the heart of the room and enabling moments of collective gathering to arise organically within the open plan.





Along the walls, a series of steel mesh panels were introduced as lightweight partitions. These act as a soft boundary—somewhere between a wall and an installation—dividing the space into semi-private zones while preserving transparency and fluid movement. Their subtle presence avoids the visual heaviness of solid walls and instead enables a continuous social rhythm.

Long benches, reminiscent of park seating, are placed between the platforms and mesh dividers. Rather than being tied to fixed tables, these seating elements engage directly with the terrain and layout, allowing for a range of sitting, leaning, or gathering postures. This creates a richly layered social landscape within a relatively compact space, embracing a casual and inclusive atmosphere.






The pitched roof structure of the existing warehouse is emphasized and reinterpreted as a centripetal canopy, descending toward the center of the space. This formal move echoes the typology of a Chinese siheyuan (courtyard house), subtly referencing the brand’s origins in Beijing while emphasizing the gathering logic at the spatial and cultural core of the project. In section, the roof’s downward gesture mirrors the ground’s upward rise, creating a dialog between floor and ceiling that shapes the room’s gravitational center.



The material palette is built on a deliberate contrast. Raw finishes—including the retained concrete floor, Malaysian calcium silicate panels, and small-format ceramic tiles—form the base layer, grounding the space in its industrial origins. In areas where the body touches or lingers, more tactile materials are introduced: richly patterned wood veneers and cork offer a warmth and softness that encourage longer dwell times. The interplay between brutal and refined, between structure and surface, produces a bar environment that is both characterful and sensorially comfortable.


The  store extends the brand’s architectural language of openness and structural clarity into a new urban and climatic context. The design does not pursue a polished commercial aesthetic or contrived "exoticism," but instead transforms the inherent qualities of the site—its generous height, heritage structure, and riverside setting—into a stage for everyday urban rituals. It is both a bar and a platform; a place for conversation, community, and quiet celebration along the river’s edge.

Project Location:  Central Region, Singapore

Project Type: Commercial/Retail

Building Area: 180 square meters

Interior (Architectural) Design: Aoshu Architecture

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