ANTILOPE / Mass Operations

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Monterrey, Mexico
  • Architects: Mass Operations
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  80
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2018
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Lorena Darquea
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Cemix, Flooring, Grupo Tenerife, Gubbi, Llano de la Torre
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© Lorena Darquea

How would Wes Anderson design a chapel for Coffee?
Antilope Café is a new coffee Brand in Mexico. The 80m2 space is located within the Arboleda Development in Monterrey México and it represents the brand´s first physical space where the marriage of Chiapas coffee beans and Dulcinea´s kitchen (a local restaurant by the same owners) takes place. The design came through a series of challenges.

© Lorena Darquea
Floor Plan
© Lorena Darquea

On one hand, we needed to provide a fresh and unique space that could assimilate the identity and values of the Antilope brand, the quality of its coffee and food, on the other hand, we needed to avoid having the space feel gender specific. We proposed to create an open and bright space suitable for the worshiping of coffee — A chapel for coffee.

© Lorena Darquea

Influenced by the hard symmetries in Wes Anderson movies, we split the space into a feminine side (pink) and a masculine side (green), which are then separated or joined by diagonals within the flooring and dropped ceiling patterns. Each side is designed to enjoy coffee at a different pace, while the green side is designed in order to spend longer periods of time and enjoy the food, the pink side is designed for a faster in and out experience, with high tables that are suitable for a quick espresso (standing up, as the Italians do).

© Lorena Darquea

The references to a chapel are everywhere, from the large floating marble frame “The Altar”, where the barista “Priest” supplies you with your coffee as if it were your communion, all the way to the high tables that are formed from marble that falls from the heavens and simulate a confessional, where one can sit face to face to one's cup and confess, in company or by oneself.

© Lorena Darquea

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Address:Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

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Cite: "ANTILOPE / Mass Operations" [ANTILOPE / Mass Operations] 02 Jul 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/897090/antilope-mass-operations> ISSN 0719-8884

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