The project is located in an exclusive area of the city of Buenos Aires, within the area of the most important polo field in South America.

The project is the result of a two-factor investigation in related to the company that called us to the Stella Artois project, which we will describe as follows.

On the one hand, the building volume made us interested in refering it to the medieval constructive silhouettes that define the typical skyline of Bruges, which is very typical of Belgium, the country where the brand was born.

On the other hand, the interior work had to refer to the concept of the old typical European coffees of the beginning of the 20th century, very related to the Parisians style.

The challenge was to compose a volume inspired by these old buildings and their characteristic Belgian ceilings, but executing the figure under a contemporary vision, that is, modifying the slopes of the ceiling generating a dynamism and avoiding a regular volume generating a dynamism and avoiding a regular volume. It looks like the image of the typical buildings in front of the Dijver canal or the Bruges market.

The configuration of these ceilings forced us to understand that the windows had to dialogue in a contemporary way with that dynamism. On the other hand, in front of the building is located the polo field, and in the background the skyline of the city of Buenos Aires. The impact of these visuals was decisive in defining the dimension of the openings.

Constructively, we set up ornamented circular columns under the sloped ceilings, managing to mix an eclectic composition.

The interior organization is a typical two-level restaurant and all the visuals are directed to the polo field, hiding the services to the opposite sector.

The complex dialogue between an interior mostly represented under an image of a café of the early twentieth century, and the exterior of contemporary configuration, resulted in a complex eclectic balance of languages. This made it possible for our client to accept a contemporary image in spite of its clear inclination towards an old aesthetic.

The design has as starting point the culinary proposal based on a disruptive concept (based on the client´s words). We understood that the search was to exacerbate the senses, fuse flavors, evoque seductive aromas and create an attractive visual aesthetic.The idea was to promote the culinary proposl materialized through a dreamlike and suggestive landscpe that would accompany the great gastronomic challege. definitely inspired bythe name of the place, Mamba.

For this reason, te idea was to promote a large and unique piece capable of uniting the entire project, which would also be fully functional for the needs of the restaurant. It contains almost all usage features such as seating areas, DJ area, reception area, and your storefornt scenery. All througha landscape of abstract figures inspired by the scales of a large invertebate materlized in iron and covered with triangular MDF panels painted in marble ocide. This choice aims to mark a clear contemporary aesthetic line without falling into a pretentious space.

We have proposed conceptual elements in your showcase, in addition to two other corners, represented by broken and discarded crockery that offer an artistic image that adds to theimagination of your guests. It is a large showcase with a very suggestive artistic proposal, a kind of veil that covers the visibility of the restaurant, with the aim of seducing the visitor and calling him into mystery.

The presence of vegetation over the campfires is part of a balance of tones, and in the backyard, whose green landscape acts as a screen, it proposes an outdoor ecosystem for those who prefer to enjoy another atmosphere.

GOODSTEN isn´t just a creamery. It is born from an experience of oneiric landscapes, as if it where form another world, with a completely different logic. Unknown and fantastic lands made us think of precious stones. Their faceted surfaces inspired us to create a construction system. Those rocks, which blind us with their glows and crystal-like textures, are diamonds from another world.

The allegory of the precious stone had an impact on creative decisions, both in design and construction aspects, branding decisions, and even on the making of the desserts, which are prepared on granite slabs with temperatures below zero.

We transformed this idea into a construction system, through a material which allowed us to mold these faceted figures, without falling into the literalness of stony materials. We wanted to express a homogeneity through one continuous surface of elements which set up a diamond-like shell, made possible by means of the repetition of treated metallic tiles.

The proposal is expressive and synthetic, in a way that it suggests an intriguing formalism from its silent and mono material condition. The construction of a double height annex, which grants the true spatiality to the creamery, is attached to the original house so that both coexist in a respectful and harmonic way. The new diamond-like structure dialogues morphologically with the pitched roofs of a 20th century chalet.

The site of the annex incorporates two mansards in the inside and a third one on the outside, which respond to the requirements of the ventilating and lighting municipal codes. Because of this, the roof considerably modifies its shape allowing the needed lighting and fresh air to enter. As a result, we found ourselves with a very plastic roof, geometrically speaking. At ground level we built a concrete piece, which works as a basement over which the roof rests, becoming one similar morphological configuration.

We created a compositional system of triangles and faceted surfaces which can be seen in various elements particularly designed. From the openings in the building in the production zone, to the annex roof allowing the light to be sifted. The same geometry, also makes up the metallic structure of the general lighting system, as well as the design of the exterior floorings, made from precast concrete. It all comes together to the same compositional criteria.

The general interior idea is determined by essentials from the aesthetic Nordic imaginary, as are the skin and leather tapestry, walls coated in natural wood and light-colored granites. All of these noble materials are used in a monochromatic way, so that a perfect integration of the oneiric and fantastic world and the compositional system created is generated with no greater difficulty.

The client´s requirements have been very rigorous. The surface destined to the production area covers almost 50% of the buildings total surface, divided in two levels and with two double circulations as to ensure the clearly differentiated public and private areas.