Mustapan Coffee Shop Estudio Chávarro

May 15 , 2021  |  1,767

Text description provided by the architects. Café Mustapan has been around for over 60 years, located right in the main square of Chipaque, Colombia. The place prides itself on serving the best of traditional and local bakery and attracts clients of all types.  From local farmers to tourists, take a sit every day to have an arepa and a cup of coffee.

COFFEE SHOP, COFFEE SHOP INTERIORS

CHIPAQUE, COLOMBIA
Architects: Estudio Chávarro
Area: 2045 ft²
Year: 2020
Photographs: Iván Ortiz
Manufacturers: AutoDesk, Alfa, Blend Concrete, L’Atelier, TIERRATEC

 

 

As in the majority of small towns located around the Colombian Andean Region, the main economic source comes from the countryside of Chipaque and their customs are still relevant. The owners of Mustapan have always honored their farmer’s work and traditions, this is why the countryside and traditional - abandoned farmer houses, became the main inspiration for the design by Estudio Chávarro. The inspiration is visible in the use of materials in every square meter of the simple design layout, matched with some timeless pieces of furniture and lighting.

 

 

Adobe brick and exposed concrete walls, handmade cement tiles, and clay roofing tiles, among others, delivered the aesthetical identity to the place. The identity that wasn’t totally faked, as the house where the café is located in a historical colonial house, which original walls were made out of adobe bricks. As planned in the design, the covering of these walls was removed and the ancient adobe bricks were left totally exposed during the construction phase.

 

 

The design is the result of an extensión of the place, in which some rooms of the neighbor property (the owner’s home) were added, such as the original patio, typical of all colonial houses. Which in spite of not being right in the center of the café, is the actual heart of it. This is where all materials inspired by the countryside meet and where the gothic tower of Chipaque’s church is visible from, a direct visual link with the town.

 

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