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Spanish design agency Masquespacio has created the interiors of Italian fast food chain Bun’s Turin branch that combines blocks of pink and green with a blue seating area designed to look like a swimming pool.
Bun Turin is a burger joint that takes its bold identity from the first Bun restaurant in Milan, which was also designed by Masquespacio.
“This restaurant’s target customer is the urban lifestyle of people born late in the Millennium and the new Generation Z,” Masquespacio co-founder Christophe Penasse told Dezeen.
The burger bar is in Turin
Characterised by three distinct colourful areas, the burger joint uses pink, blue and green in order to playfully carve out different spaces in the restaurant.
The sections are designed so that the restaurant’s three large windows present each colour as a separate blocked out space from the outside.
Green and pink sections feature in the restaurantUpon entering Bun Turin, visitors are greeted with an ordering bar and drinks and ice cream fridge coloured in a dusty sage shade of the restaurant’s trademark green.
Lit-up digital menu boards with gold accents display the restaurant’s food options, while a version of the same neon burger logo found in Bun’s Milan branch glows from a nearby pillar.
A neon burger sign glows from a pillarPink and blue are used for two different seating areas both complete with built-in furniture.
In the pink area, a central table coloured partly in green straddles both the pink and green sections of the restaurant.
Sugary-pink terrazzo steps that double as a planter lead visitors to seats tucked into arched booths in the pink seating area, which also houses the burger joint’s toilets.
The pink seating area has terrazzo stepsBun Turin’s all-blue seating area is built from pale tiles that are designed to look like a swimming pool.
The area features mock pool ladders which aim to give visitors the impression of floating in water while they eat.
Masquespacio uses blocks of colour to break up interior of Milan burger joint
“Once we defined Bun’s identity we developed the project in 3D,” said Penasse.
“At the end of the process, we do a lot of trials to reach the correct combination of colours and materials,” continued the designer.
“In this case, we had several options for colour combinations, all focussed on a younger audience.”
The blue seating area resembles a swimming poolApart from tiles by Complementto, all of the furniture in Bun Turin was designed by Masquespacio.
“It is important for clients that Bun spaces can be recognised wherever they are located,” explained Penasse.
“For this reason, the design will evolve and be slightly different in each space, but maintain a clear identity.”
Each section is revealed to the street by a large windowMasquespacio is a Valencia-based design agency founded in 2010 by Penasse and Ana Milena Hernández Palacios, known for its use of bright colour.
Other recent projects by the studio include colour-blocked student housing in Bilbao, and a stucco and terracotta restaurant in the Spanish town of Aragon constructed from twisting shapes informed by the nearby Pyrenees mountains.
Photography is by Gregory Abbate.
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Valencia-based creative studio Masquespacio has completed an open-plan colour-blocked interior with a community feeling for the Resa San Mamés student accommodation in Spain.The interior design for the Bilbao student residence was commissioned by student accommodation company Resa with the aim of letting its occupants “share experiences as a community”.
Above: Resa student accommodation by Masquespacio. Top: furniture on wheels allows users to define the space
Masquespacio created an open-plan design for the 1,850 square-metre building, which has studios for 351 residents and provides spaces for studying, socialising, meeting and dining.
“The client highlighted that they wanted to create a community and strong connection point between the residents of the new Resa,” Masquespacio co-founder and marketing director Christophe Penasse told Dezeen.
Yellow zoning defines the lounge area
The bold and colourful interior used vibrant greens paired with millennial pinks, lavender and hot pinks, while soft furnishings and partitions were used to define zones within the space.
“Using the technique of colour blocking we obtained a strong visual impact for the space and at the same time we could create a clear distinction between each zone in this open space,” explained the studio.
The kitchen features lavender tiling
As well as accommodation, the building has a kitchen, a dining room, study rooms, leisure rooms, a gym and a terrace.
Muted yellow covers the ceiling above the open kitchen, while lavender tiles are used as a backsplash.
Wooden furniture with yellow accents surrounds the kitchen area, some of which is on wheels to allow users to reconfigure the space as they wish.
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Millennial pink dining tables and chairs were placed against a green backdrop to define the dining space, which also features oversized steps that form amphitheatre-style seating to encourage group interaction.
Pendant lighting is hung above millennial pink and green dining tables
“We liked the idea of working with an open space and making a space specially focused on university students,” Penasse explained.
“Offering them a lot of options to make their day at the residence a little bit more attractive, and at the same time help them to be more creative.”
Oversized steps are used for seating
The study areas of the residency employ acoustic glass walls to provide silence, but can be opened up to connect the study space with an adjacent lounge.
Blue-painted brick adds texture to formal study spaces and red velvet curtains on circular tracks surround group study tables for additional privacy.
Walls and services pipes were left unrendered and exposed to give the interior an industrial look.
Blue-painted brick frames the study space and red curtains add privacy
The studio explained that it envisioned the design for the Resa San Mamés as a free-flowing space that encourages the students themselves to determine how it is used.
“A space where you don’t need to be in the study room to read a book, but just can sit into the launch area,” Penasse said. “A space where people share ideas, experiences and connect together.”
Different coloured tables and chairs define areas for seating
The colour-blocking theme was continued through to the outdoor terrace, where green picnic tables sit within a green-zoned area while different shades of blue signal other areas of seating.
Masquespacio was founded in 2010 by Ana Milena Hernandez Palacios and Christophe Penasse who combined their disciplines in interior design and marketing to create a design agency that works across media, design, fashion and lifestyle.
Dezeen has previously featured the studio’s colourful design for this co-working space in Valencia and also this colour-clashing interior for a phone-repair shop.
Photography is by Masquespacio.
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Spanish firm Plantea Estudio has layered “light and warm” materials such as plywood and chipboard to create the interior of this Madrid street food restaurant.Called Zuppa, the eaterie is located on one of the city centre’s main streets, the Calle de Atocha, and occupies a commercial space that was previously home to an Indian takeaway.
The informal dining area features steel frame furniture (above) and a central oak table (top image)
The 127-square-metre restaurant offers a menu of street food and homemade soups, which can be taken to go or eaten inside of a small, informal dining area.
Plantea Estudio restored the original storefront, which had been altered by the previous owners, and installed bespoke pivoting doors with frames made of plywood and iron, and topped with marble handles.
Built-in benches are paired with wooden stools and steel tables
For the interior, the firm said it selected materials in “light and warm tones” to create a feeling of continuity and make the space appear larger.
Although similar in colouring, the materials were chosen for their different textural qualities, with micro-cement and plywood boards forming the walls and floors while chipboard was used to panel the ceiling.
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“The light from the outside envelops them in such a way, that the limits between one and the other blur and the space is expanded to the maximum,” explained the architects.
The space is anchored by a large communal table
In contrast to the soft beige tones of the walls and floors, the studio installed furniture and fittings made from black lacquered steel with “geometric and precise” forms.
Much of this was designed specifically for the project, including a large communal table made from solid oak and finished with a sanded steel top.
Placed in the centre of the space, it helps to channel the flow of customers between the two entrance doors.
High tables in front of the counter feature marble tops
Two built-in, upholstered benches run along the walls on either side, paired with rows of lacquered steel tables and oak stools.
In the space beyond, two high tables with a steel base and grey Ruivina marble top sit in front of a serving counter made from these same materials and illuminated through integrated lighting.
Here, customers can eat their food either standing or seated on one of the bar stools with their oak veneer seats.
A soap dispenser and marble sink are mounted to the bathroom walls
“All of these elements are introduced into a space where the floor and walls are finished in the same colour, so it looks like they are ‘floating’ in a warm atmosphere,” Plantea Estudio director Luis Gill told Dezeen.
“The materials that are touched by hand are kind and solid, always pleasant.”
The illusion of objects levitating in space is carried through to the toilets, where a marble sink and soap dispenser are suspended from the walls.
Plantea Estudio built custom plywood doors with marble handles
The interior’s neutral colour scheme chimes with paint brand Dulux’s choice of colour of the year for 2021 – a “reassuring” earthy beige called Brave Gound.
Dulux argued that this “elemental” shade reflects “our growing desire to align more with the planet and looking towards the future”.
Plantea Estudio, which was shortlisted for emerging interior design practice of the year at the 2019 Dezeen Awards, has previously transformed a defunct erotic cinema into an art-nouveau theatre.
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Located in a former garage space at the base of a residential block, this school for music in the Spanish city of Burgos makes a feature of the building’s existing concrete structure.Local architect Enrique Jerez and interior designer Blanca Leal were commissioned to create the Yoglar school by a client, who wanted to create a “home” for early music and piano education.
Classrooms in the open-plan extension are demarcated through orange vinyl flooring
The original trapezoidal plot in which the school is located was built in 1947 along with the adjacent residential building.
The garage faces the street while an extension with a mezzanine, which was added in 1952 to increase storage space, is located at the back. Supported by pillars, this features a barrel-vaulted concrete ceiling and covers the building’s original courtyard.
The reception features built-in birch furniture
Instead of dismantling this “disorganised” structure, the architects decided to leave the irregular, concrete shell almost untouched.
As such, the 205-square-metre school is divided into two areas. The original, trapezoidal garage space is home to an entrance hall, reception desk and toilets alongside a manager’s office and the school’s largest classroom.
The extension is nicknamed “the forest” and houses a menagerie of plants
The former courtyard area is now nicknamed “the forest” and houses two irregularly-shaped classrooms. One of these is enclosed within a house-shaped volume, which was sound-proofed with the help of three-centimetre-thick cork panels.
The second classroom is located within the larger open-plan space and is delineated by its orange vinyl flooring.
A spiral staircase made from blackened steel leads up to the mezzanine level, which has retained its original function as a storage space.
The spiral staircase is made from blackened steel
Natural light is funnelled into the school through two sets of glass doors at the back of the space that open onto a small patio.
The floors, walls and ceilings throughout are finished in polished concrete to bring a cohesive feel to the different spaces while enhancing the acoustics.
The designers also added built-in birch furniture to bring some warmth to the otherwise cool concrete space.
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“Our aim was to design a place both unique and functional, which could foster children’s creativity while achieving clear results in their music development from zero to 12 years,” said Jerez and Leal.
The floors and walls are finished in polished concrete
In the Czech Republic, architecture studios FUUZE and Public Atelier recently converted a series of old church buildings into a modern primary school with the help of brightly coloured interventions.
The project involved building new classrooms and restoring the decaying roof trusses of the original church complex back to its former glory.
Images are courtesy of Javier Bravo.
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