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Location: Mexico City
Year: 2021
Surface: 160 m2
Team: Beatriz Kretschmer, José Ignacio Vargas
Photos: Jose Ignacio Vargas
Mari Gold is an Indian-Mexican food restaurant and apartment located in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood, Mexico City. Our design intentions were to preserve the spatial character of the existing space by renovating the three-story building to integrate the new programme. The ground level serves as the restaurant and contains a kitchen, bathroom and an outdoor patio, the second level contains the main kitchen, an office and the research library and the third level serves as an apartment which is rented on the Airbnb platform. The three levels share two triple-height spaces; the first, an exterior patio that is separated from the second by a concrete breeze block wall. The second is a space where the vertical circulation is located, a staircase that allows the user to be shown different views through the breeze block wall towards the exterior patio and to the interior spaces of the building. The spatial environment of the restaurant tries to optimize the integration of natural light as well as forge a community atmosphere through elongated and fixed tables of the restaurant which the customer shares with the other guests. The project explores the integration of yellow tones that break with the surrounding neutral tones, leaving as a trace the color of the mari gold or cempasuchil flower that is shared by both cultures: Indian and Mexican.
Surface: 160 m2
Year: 2021
Team: Beatriz Kretschmer, José Ignacio Vargas
Fotos: Jose Ignacio Vargas
Mari Gold is an Indian-Mexican food restaurant and apartment located in the San Miguel Chapultepec neighborhood, Mexico City. Our design intentions were to preserve the spatial character of the existing space by renovating the three-story building to integrate the new programme. The ground level serves as the restaurant and contains a kitchen, bathroom and an outdoor patio, the second level contains the main kitchen, an office and the research library and the third level serves as an apartment which is rented on the Airbnb platform. The three levels share two triple-height spaces; the first, an exterior patio that is separated from the second by a concrete breeze block wall. The second is a space where the vertical circulation is located, a staircase that allows the user to be shown different views through the breeze block wall towards the exterior patio and to the interior spaces of the building. The spatial environment of the restaurant tries to optimize the integration of natural light as well as forge a community atmosphere through elongated and fixed tables of the restaurant which the customer shares with the other guests. The project explores the integration of yellow tones that break with the surrounding neutral tones, leaving as a trace the color of the mari gold or cempasuchil flower that is shared by both cultures: Indian and Mexican.