Native studio Juan Campanini – Josefina Sposito has fronted wine store Enofilo with a metallic mesh facade that responds on to the advanced Buenos Aires streetscape.
At 175 sq. metres (1,883 sq. ft), Enofilo opened in 2025 inside an current home on Avenida Juramento within the quickly densifying Bajo Belgrano neighbourhood.
The studio labored to create an area that labored with the difficult spatial and stylistic constraints of the neighbourhood.
“The challenge was impressed by the problem of working inside a metropolis like Buenos Aires – a spot made up of numerous small fragments that collectively compose its city panorama,” Juan Campanini – Josefina Sposito advised Dezeen. “We needed our intervention to belong to that material, so as to add yet another layer that would resonate with the town’s texture.”
Like a woven material, sliver-coloured metallic mesh stretches throughout the prevailing brick wall, standing other than the context whereas acknowledging the store’s function as a fraction within the bigger city realm, the studio defined.
The facade works in tandem with a blue, metallic staircase that stands the place the unique patio as soon as was, serving as an organising factor for the spatial sequence and connection to the challenge’s city and home scales.
“The facade, a exact and shimmering aircraft, mediates between the lifetime of the road and the inside, marking the edge to the wine store,” the studio mentioned.
“The facade mesh is reduce into exact panels that observe the delicate variations of the entrance – its step, door and window – and is screwed onto a hidden body behind it,” the studio defined.
“Though it seems clean and steady, the floor consists of particular person elements whose proportions improve step by step from backside to prime, in crescendo.”
Seemingly small from the road, the constructing extends deep into the plot, passing from the doorway to the staircase, which “anchors the area” and bridges the entrance of the constructing to the courtyard at the back of the block.
Guests enter right into a communal tasting space lined with built-in shelving used as a wine library, additionally clad in mesh.
A darkish granite floor serves as a counter, set underneath tough, sand-coloured plaster ceilings.
A big, white-painted structural collumn rises from polished concrete flooring and marks the ground-level hallway, the place auxiliary rooms had been positioned off to at least one aspect.
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The decrease half of the partitions and counters was painted a smooth blue that connects the interiors to the staircase, which has a vaulted awning because it results in the higher flooring.
The fragile, cross-shaped sample of the perforated steel diffuses air and light-weight.
On the second flooring, a protracted desk and enormous home windows open the non-public workplace area to the town skyline.
The studio mentioned that the mesh scheme helped to attract focus to crucial parts within the challenge.
“The important thing lesson is knowing how one can focus vitality – deciding which parts of a challenge will carry the best relevance,” the studio mentioned.
“On this case, we selected to deal with redefining the constructing’s street-front relation and elevating the staircase by means of its floor remedy. Each parts, extraordinary in identify, change into particular by means of kind and supplies.”
Different lately designed wine retailers embody a burgundy leather-wrapped showroom in Milan by Eligo Studio, a Brooklyn bar with a “soothing ambiance” by Studio Forward and a cave-like inside with a vaulted ceiling in Valladolid, Spain by Zooco Estudio.
The images is by Javier Agustín Rojas.
Challenge credit:
Architects: Juan Campanini – Josefina SpositoProject Crew: Valentina Lucardi, Valentina Bauger, Martina Pera, Emilia Conde
