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The Xuan Lan Yoga Factory was born in an old cereal factory located in the heart of the Ciutat Vella in Barcelona. It is an interior design and landscaping project where the existing industrial character dialogues with the new elegant and Mediterranean imprint.

The Xuan Lan Yoga Factory was born in an old cereal factory located in the heart of the Ciutat Vella in Barcelona. It is an interior design and landscaping project where the existing industrial character dialogues with the new elegant and Mediterranean imprint.

The project is made up of a takeaway coffee, a showroom where you can buy all the supplies related to coffee, from equipment to coffee per kilo, a storage area where merchandise is received, and an upper floor where find the offices. 

Text by Mónica Arellano.

Virgin Izakaya Bar Odesa: Authentic Japanese Secret Room in the Historical Center. The first traditional Japanese izakaya restaurant opened in Kyiv on the territory of the former Arsenal factory at the end of 2020, surprising the Kyiv public with a sophisticated combination of Japanese cultural aesthetics and the historical past of the building. As a location for the restaurant in the port city of Odesa, the client chose a historic building in the center, a pre-revolutionary 4-story revenue house built in 1900 that is an architectural landmark.

The design of the house is conditioned by its immediate surroundings. Located in a high-density residential area and surrounded by plots with built houses, the first impulse that appears is to create a sort of fortress, to protect the privacy of the occupants.

Casa Roble is the result of a work inspired by the spatial and material distributions of the houses of yesteryear and the return of the patio as a container element for recreational and social activities. The patio as the main concept of the house was the guideline of the project, but the real challenge was to take this space beyond what was planned. Given that the lot was not very large, only 10x19m (32.80×62.33ft), the patio had to be able to expand, be prepared for surprise visits, and a lot of movement. For these reasons a gate was designed that accommodated two clearly divided spaces, the garage, and patio, but this element, when traversed, had to leave room for a large central space. The gate was the indicated element that would give us all this flexibility. Its aesthetic was planned to blend in and not be distinguished literally.

The client’s request was to build a barn-like shelter situated on an arid place in the foothills of the Andes Mountains. Following this idea, on these mountain trails, there are shelters called “pircas”, made in stone by the original inhabitants.