Al Modar Founders Pavilion by Taco
Al Modar Founders Pavilion is a lovely restaurant designed in 2021 by Taco located in Mérida, Mexico.
Description
The Pabellón Fundadores (Al Modar) is the result of an architectural intervention to an existing building to transform it into a multi-faceted space adapted to a restaurant use. The objective was to achieve a casual, fresh and relaxed meeting place where users could live a sensory experience through coffee, food, nature, the built environment and social interaction.
The pre-existing building was a small 50m2 rural house located on one of the corners containing the foundational plaza of Cholul, a community of pre-Hispanic origin belonging to the city of Merida, in the southeast of Mexico. It received a modification 25 years ago, in which the original roof and openings were lost. The current project proposed the demolition of the added slabs and the recovery of the original structure of the stone masonry walls, which were reinforced to support a reinforced concrete barrel vault at double height over the main entrance that extends the covered area, as well as a flat slab over the service area that supports an open terrace at the top, from which a new way of appreciating the public square is generated. The overlapping of the slabs generates a north-facing window that evacuates hot air, introduces light and frames the view of the treetops. Both the vault and the murals on the façade, made from the scraping of layers of paint that have been ap...
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