More than a shop, a tool showroom. Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba
20/01/2021.
[A Coruña] Spain
metalocus, AZAHARA SERRANO
metalocus, AZAHARA SERRANO
This project, developed by the architects of Sinaldaba, is located in El Temple, Cambres, an area of A Coruña near the Ría del Burgo, belonging to the Rías Altas. Therefore, it is a place with a special charm.
Hardware stores often seem, at first glance, hostile place that only goes for tools or DIY supplies. However, on this occasion, it has been possible to find the essential, the simple, obtaining as a final product a site that invites you to enter.
Hardware stores often seem, at first glance, hostile place that only goes for tools or DIY supplies. However, on this occasion, it has been possible to find the essential, the simple, obtaining as a final product a site that invites you to enter.
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz
General Plans. Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba
Elevation. Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba
The Sinaldaba team have developed a neutral design, a place where items can be collected in a certain order, but also serve as display stands. These are located in the side areas of the store, which provides some visual continuity. Besides, there is a mobile part used as an auxiliary counter.
All these elements are constituted by materiality whose objective is the search for a traditional identity, that of a workshop-workshop. In the same way, the tools are arranged on a kind of metallic canvas that serves as an exhibitor.
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
All these elements are constituted by materiality whose objective is the search for a traditional identity, that of a workshop-workshop. In the same way, the tools are arranged on a kind of metallic canvas that serves as an exhibitor.
Malasa hardware store by Sinaldaba. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Description of project by Sinaldaba
The project was born with the aim of eliminating the superfluous, seeking to reach the essential.
A neutral container is generated where you can collect some elements that give order and serve as display containers for the product. These are "centrifuged" towards the sides of the store, seeking visual continuity by unloading the central space in which a large circular counter is generated that articulates the whole and solves the need for workstations. Finally, a mobile piece is added that functions as an auxiliary counter that organizes circulation and provides auxiliary support for the exhibition.
The materiality is the product of the search for the traditional identity of a workshop, the order and placement of its tools, using only a metallic canvas (experimenting with a veil of deployé in aluminum hiding the overexposure in the usual storage in this type of shops, steel for the contact surfaces and galvanized for the exhibition areas) to highlight the product on display and introducing walnut wood to the counter in order to humanize and balance the whole.
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Architects
SINALDABA.- Susana Vázquez Pérez e Ignacio Reigada Cordido.
Collaborators
Cristina Manzanera, José Rodríguez Anta, and Sarai Cancela.
Builder
Grupo MALASA.
Area
115 sqm.
Dates
2020.
Location
Costa da Tapia 42, El Temple, Cambre, A Coruña, Spain.
Photography
Susana Vázquez, Ignacio Reigada. Sinaldaba
Sinaldaba Estudio de Arquitectura is an architecture studio that was born in A Coruña in 2010 by Susana Vázquez Pérez and Ignacio Reigada Cordido (ETSAC).
They are a multidisciplinary team that tries to create contemporary and sustainable architecture, but with the identity, tradition, and reflection that each project demands. His professional scope ranges from design to urban planning, through new construction and especially rehabilitation and intervention in heritage.
In these years his work has been recognized with various distinctions in national and international competitions, highlighting the first prize in the ideas competition for the CIDEA headquarters. In the same way, numerous media from different countries have published his work, in addition to being part of different exhibitions.
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