The trapezoidal outline of a thirty-five-square-metre plot, together with the L-shaped staircase on the trapezoid’s shorter side that binds the floors together, can be regarded as the defining structure of the project. The principal strategy may be understood as the division of this structure into two entirely separate cores that shape the spaces of host and guest.
The right core — the larger side — houses the functional components: hot and cold bar, and bread baking. The left core, built around the staircase structure, becomes a path that leads from the city up to the rooftop, receiving visitors along the way. This path begins at the pavement, maintaining continuity with the project’s materials, and ascends through the stairs to the roof.
Two Cores
The right core consists of two white functional boxes stacked on top of each other, which, in their ultimate simplicity and feasibility, serve as the bar on the ground floor and the bakery on the first floor.
The left core, clad in coloured render, opens itself to the rooftop and the exterior space — the pavement — presenting itself as a connective element that, by being added to the project, has enabled the activation of the roof and the building’s prominence within the urban edge. By connecting the staircase, already present in the project, to the ceiling and to the space of the city through a red cement render, the staircase plays the role of an intermediary and inviting space that, in a certain sense, evokes the passage through exterior space within the project’s interior. The left core, in addition to connecting the city to the rooftop, provides a unique spatial experience for the visitor through its alternating openings and closures along the route.
Economy and Experience
Given the imperative for the project to remain economical, the right core was designed to minimise costs and focus on maximum efficiency, reducing expenditures as far as possible. The right core was finished in white due to hygiene regulations, and all elements within it follow this same approach.
Upon entering the project and traversing the path to the rooftop, the visitor can observe at close range the various processes of beverage preparation, dessert making, and bread baking on different floors, all while ascending to the roof.
