Creating caramelised shapes. Cara Mela Pastry Shop by Casa Antillón
02/04/2022.
[Madrid] Spain
metalocus, ÁNGELA MARTÍNEZ
metalocus, ÁNGELA MARTÍNEZ
The groundbreaking art and architecture collective Casa Antillón has designed the new Cara Mela patisserie. This futuristic work, with a strong colour identity, is located near Plaza de Olavide, in the heart of Madrid's Chamberí district.
The innovative creations of Valeria and Jazmín, founders of Cara Mela, are combined with a reinvention of the café-bakery concept from their spatial and perceptive vision. Original compositional forms and signature caramelised apples create an immersive experience in the place.
The innovative creations of Valeria and Jazmín, founders of Cara Mela, are combined with a reinvention of the café-bakery concept from their spatial and perceptive vision. Original compositional forms and signature caramelised apples create an immersive experience in the place.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Cara Mela by Casa Antillón. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Floor plan. Cara Mela por Casa Antillón.
Elevation. Cara Mela por Casa Antillón.
Axonometry. Cara Mela por Casa Antillón.
Axonometry. Cara Mela por Casa Antillón.
Furniture. Cara Mela by Casa Antillón.
Casa Antillón aims to provide this work with two different atmospheres, its essence is to provoke an antagonistic duality in the conception of the spaces. A contrasting play of colours and an alteration in the composition of the sizes of the rooms make up the project.
Under the name of systole and diastole, we enter a first room of small dimensions and with a bright white hue. This place welcomes customers thanks to a simple counter.
As we move through the room, we enter a new space that seems to expand, a universe of green tiles with a series of tables of distinguished geometric shapes. A red brushstroke stands out in the middle of the room, and it is here that we find the display case that allows us to observe Cara Mela's handcrafted pastry work.
Under the name of systole and diastole, we enter a first room of small dimensions and with a bright white hue. This place welcomes customers thanks to a simple counter.
As we move through the room, we enter a new space that seems to expand, a universe of green tiles with a series of tables of distinguished geometric shapes. A red brushstroke stands out in the middle of the room, and it is here that we find the display case that allows us to observe Cara Mela's handcrafted pastry work.
Description of project by Casa Antillón
This pastry shop is located on Calle Trafalgar 20, near Plaza de Olavide, in the Madrid neighbourhood of Chamberí. The project works with two opposing spatial operations that we have called systole and diastole.
The first white space is small and contracts, giving rise to an equipped piece of furniture that welcomes the visitor and meets all the needs of the clients. This piece of furniture is a counter, a bar, a warehouse, a refrigerator, an oven, a cash register, a shelf, a garbage can, a coffee pot, a grinder and a sink. This space is so small that it spills into the next. And then the surprise appears: the second space -wide- that relaxes and expands. Here the colour appears to create its own universe of caramelised forms, furniture that serves as a display, as a seat or as a table. Immersed in this sea of green tiles, a red dot captures our attention: the transparent window through which we observe the craftsmanship that the clients do in their daily tasks in the kitchen.
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Architects
Design team
Marta Ochoa, Ismael López, Emmanuel Álvarez, Yosi Negrín.
Collaborators
Photography model.- Daria Etma.
Model styling.- Anna Pandozzi.
Client
Cara Mela.
Dates
2022.
Location
Calle Trafalgar 20, Madrid, Spain.
Photography
Imagen Subliminal. Miguel de Guzmán, Rocío Romero.
Marta Ochoa, Ismael López, Emmanuel Álvarez, Yosi Negrín. Casa Antillón
Casa Antillón is an Art, Architecture and Design collective founded in Madrid in 2019. The team is formed by Marta Ochoa, Ismael López, Emmanuel Álvarez and Yosi Negrín, four architects (ETSAM, UPM) that explore diverse cultural territories, understanding the speciality from exhibition experimentation, the social event, and the curatorship research in emergent art.
Their most recent exhibitions are “Piso Piloto de Arte Emergente (2019),SOLO100SHOW (2019) in Casabanchel, Edén (2020) in Casa de Campo, Domestic Fictions (2021) in Casa de la Moneda de Segovia, “Prohibido Pasar”(2022) El Tanque, Tenerife. Casa Antillón has now also become an Art Gallery of emergent art and creative space in Carabanchel, Madrid, a shared warehouse with 14 local artists.
As an architecture and design studio, they have created an iconic furniture collection “Domestic Fictions” and architectural projects as “MOOD Hair Salon” in 2021 and “CARA MELA” in 2022.
Their most recent exhibitions are “Piso Piloto de Arte Emergente (2019),SOLO100SHOW (2019) in Casabanchel, Edén (2020) in Casa de Campo, Domestic Fictions (2021) in Casa de la Moneda de Segovia, “Prohibido Pasar”(2022) El Tanque, Tenerife. Casa Antillón has now also become an Art Gallery of emergent art and creative space in Carabanchel, Madrid, a shared warehouse with 14 local artists.
As an architecture and design studio, they have created an iconic furniture collection “Domestic Fictions” and architectural projects as “MOOD Hair Salon” in 2021 and “CARA MELA” in 2022.
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