Masa Restaurant in Bogotá, Colombia Cafe Building Design Photos
Masa Restaurant Bogotá
Contemporary Retail Architecture Design in Colombia – design by Studio Cadena, Architects
4 Jan 2019
Masa Restaurant Bogotá Building
Design: Studio Cadena
Masa, a New Restaurant Designed by Studio Cadena Opens in Bogotá, Colombia

New York City-based Studio Cadena has designed Masa, a new restaurant in a northern residential neighborhood of Bogotá, Colombia. The restaurant is built at residential scale, on the site of a former house that had gone through multiple residential and commercial iterations over the years. This is the second and largest space that Studio Cadena has designed for Masa, the first, also in Bogotá, is a smaller cafe that opened in 2014.
The 7,500-square-foot restaurant is organized as a grouping of distinct but interconnected volumes, each with a particular function. At one corner sits a cafe and bakery, which flows into central entrance area that is adjacent to a dining volume and separate retail space. An outdoor patio space provides garden seating and connects the public spaces to the kitchen in the rear. Elements such as a long concrete bar, cylindrical wood-clad service station, and a multi-tiered seating platform at the entrance serve to modulate the space.

Says Studio Cadena founder and principal Benjamin Cadena about his design, ?The idea is that everything is connected, but the spaces remain fragmented for intimacy. In any space in the resta...