Native structure studio RA! took cues from Latin American artwork deco design when creating the inside of tiny Los Alexis, a small taqueria in Mexico Metropolis’s Roma Norte neighborhood.
Los Alexis is a taco joint – or taqueria – in Rome, a well-known neighborhood in Mexico Metropolis that options examples of artwork deco structure.
RA! was impressed by the realm’s “vibrant persona” when designing the 15 sq. meter one-room restaurant housed in a former beer warehouse.
“One among our shopper’s most necessary requests was for this small area to shine among the many remainder of the retail areas on the road,” mentioned studio co-founder and designer Pedro Ramírez de Aguilar.
RA! clad the partitions and flooring in a particular mosaic of damaged ceramic tiles with inexperienced joints as an ode to Barcelona, the place chef Alexis Ayala frolicked coaching, the designer advised Dezeen.
A curved bar completed in slabs of ribbed inexperienced materials sits in entrance of the open kitchen, which is positioned to the appropriate of the small open area.
Utility supplies, together with stoneware, have been chosen all through the restaurant for “energy and pace of cleansing processes.”
Breakfast-style white-painted metal stools line the bar, which has a metal high—chosen for its grease resistance, in response to Ramírez de Aguilar.
The studio determined to maintain the area’s unique ceiling “to create a wider distinction [within the eatery] and let’s keep in mind the outdated place”.
Casual seating traces the pavement simply outdoors the taqueria the place prospects can eat and socialize.
Except for a small toilet in the back of Los Alexis, the one-room restaurant is deliberately outlined by the bar and open kitchen.
“Typical “changarros”. [small shops] in Mexico Metropolis they’re all concerning the dialog with the cooks, so we tried to have this interplay between folks as the principle focus,” defined Ramírez de Aguilar.
Based in 2017, RA! beforehand created the interiors of a restaurant within the metropolis’s Polanco neighborhood, with a bar counter formed like an inverted ziggurat.
DOT Espresso Station is one other hole-in-the-wall cafe in Kiev, Ukraine, that YOD Group designed with the same floor-to-ceiling tile mosaic.
Picture courtesy of RA!