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From BRYOS estudio
The project is located in Villa Crespo, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, within Casa San José, a convent built in 1975 that is part of the historical heritage of the City of Buenos Aires, today recycled and re-functionalized, converted into a boutique hotel with a ground floor around a patio with different commercial and gastronomic premises.
COMO, as a gastronomic project, has a proposal focused on the careful choice of all ingredients for a top quality plant-based production. It has three axes of elaboration: bakery, pastry and cafeteria. The distribution of the premises in the interior space, reconstructs these three production lines, and articulates three working bars one for each of them. In this way it is proposed that the enclosure is a space of elaboration in sight where production and consumption coexist, creating a large open kitchen in which you can see how the raw material becomes food, a place where textures and aromas are mixed generating a warm and pleasant atmosphere.
The project uses a chromatic resource, taking two colors, white and ocher, to mark and differentiate one environment within another. Having a considerably large interior space, of 110 m², this resource allows to maintain the space integrated while distributing and sectorizing it into areas of work, circulation and relax.
The chromatic combination is also accompanied by a range of textures and coatings, alluding to the materiality and elegance of the original convent, making the classic and antique coexist with the traditional and the new. On the one hand, the coating of tiles up to the height of the parapet of the windows, facilitating the cleaning of these surfaces. The vaulted ceilings with projected cellulose help the absorption of noise and the acoustic resonance of the place and also bring a new texture to the space. The terrazzo of the bars made in situ, allows these large dimensions in a single piece, and is a traditional material that refers to domestic kitchens, with curved finishes in their corners making the geometry more organic.