Interior Designer: MS Estudio (Arturo Aquino, Miguel Angel Baltazar, Erick Pacheco, Alejandro Tapia Consulenza architettura: Manada Architectural Year: 2021
Location: Città del Messico Photographs: Camila Cossio Via Archdaily
In the La Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, MS Estudio designed La Increible, a small bookstore that invites visitors to read. Despite the small size of the space, only 42 square meters, a design careful to details managed to obtain a well-distributed ambient, with reading corners inside niches.
The extensive use of melamine boards with a maple finish, a light-colored wood, visually expands the space and creates a sort of “cube,” which is itself subdivided into other cubes, drawing a grid that keeps the area in order. Melamine panels are the best solution for small space projects.
Available in various thicknesses, complete with edges in the same finishes, the melamine allows to cover entire walls and build custom architectures. Its use is particularly suitable in a reading environment, requiring an atmosphere that is as quiet as possible. A veneer panel covering helps to reduce noise, especially if it covers both walls and ceiling. Moreover, the melamine panels are fireproof, therefore particularly suitable for spaces with a public presence.
The grid that covers the ceiling, also made of melamine panels with a maple finish, reminiscent of the coffered ceilings of antiquity, is an important architectural element, which completes the spatial concept and distributes the lighting, consisting of light and imperceptible bulb-shaped fixtures.
The polished concrete floor adds further simplicity to the interior. The melamine boards with a maple finish design space with a modular mesh, which creates the shelves for books, continues in an ideal thread in the counter, in the small bar at the rear, and outlines the niches for reading. The large table in the center, also in maple finish, highlights the appearance of the exhibition space, and creates a dramatic effect.
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