Goodsten in Martinez, Buenos Aires Commercial Interior, Argentinan Architecture, Images
Goodsten in Martinez, Buenos Aires
Commercial Cafe Interior in Argentina ? design by Hitzig Militello Architects
26 Jul 2019
Goodsten
Design: Hitzig Militello Architects
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America

Goodsten isn´t just a creamery. It is born from an experience of oneiric landscapes, as if it where form another world, with a completely different logic. Unknown and fantastic lands made us think of precious stones. Their faceted surfaces inspired us to create a construction system. Those rocks, which blind us with their glows and crystal-like textures, are diamonds from another world.

The allegory of the precious stone had an impact on creative decisions, both in design and construction aspects, branding decisions, and even on the making of the desserts, which are prepared on granite slabs with temperatures below zero.
Hitzig Militello Architects transformed this idea into a construction system, through a material which allowed us to mold these faceted figures, without falling into the literalness of stony materials. We wanted to express a homogeneity through one continuous surface of elements which set up a diamond-like shell, made possible by means of the repetition of treated metallic tiles.
The proposal is expressive and synthetic, in a way that it suggests an intriguing formalism from its silent and mono material condition. The construction of a double height a...