Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
The project is about the transformation of a 1927 small garden house, with the protected heritage status, into an artisanal bakery and coffee shop.
Associated with the new use there was the need to incorporate a production sector which in its dimension was incompatible with the limited interior space of the house. Thus, it was decided to use the house for the public and incorporate the production area in a new plan extension.
From this decision the possibility of folding in the same act the worlds of the kitchen and the sector of the diners became the recurring theme. The scenes of the film from Peter Greenaway "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" filmed in a theater stage reaffirmed this idea.
The expansion is arranged longitudinally over one side of the back garden and it is resolved with a big iron beam which intersects (and undermines) part of the existing house. The beam that is held by an inverted V pilar evinces the strength and places the different elements in balance. It also allows a total opening to the exterior and makes the production sector, like in a theater, a part of the garden visual scenery.
From a material point of view, the preexisting sectors are restored keeping the original floors and woodwork, and the vertical surfaces and ceiling are taken to white as a way of erasing the weight of a previous inhabit.
Project Credits:
Project: La Linda bakery Carrasco
Architects: Arquitecto Pedro Livni