Ness + N3ss Restaurant / OOAA (Oficios Asociados)

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Text description provided by the architects.The project is taking place in the neighborhood of Núñez inBuenos Aires, in a context of changing density and uses that often result in the repurposing of existing buildings. In the case of Ness, we transformed a corner warehouse used as a storage space into a restaurant, bar, and production kitchen.In the large triple-height room, a series of elements are key to providing character and scale: the cooking island and its exhausts, the freight lift, the olive tree, and the zenithal light coming from the skylights, which, with their movement and color variation, contribute different scenes while establishing a particular relationship with the outside.The design of the furniture and smaller-scale objects has a strong functional character while also aiming to contribute to the whole with their details and materiality, as if they were the smallest pieces of a larger system that gains dimension in the relationship and collaboration of the different mentioned elements.On the outside, the austere character and simple volume formed by nine-meter-high walls were maintained, with some small openings on the upper floor and three shutters on the ground floor that served as access to different sectors of the warehouse.Inside, the load-bearing walls that subdivided the ground floor were replaced with metal beams and columns, allowing for the space to be opened up and reorganized around the new service core, and through a system of metal carpentry, different usage forms were configured, redefining the relationship of these new spaces with the public.