Text details provided by architects. The small semi-separate house in the Pompeya neighborhood of Sao Paulo has been converted into a small bread factory, which has a seating space for public and production areas for products.
The architectural project for Mich Mich Bakery was visually based on the basis of connecting the public with production. New openings were created to establish these visual relations, as well as continuity from pavement to internal courtyard.
The first floor has service sector on the front roof, in the central hall and in the rear courtyard. In addition to the kitchen with all the equipment required to run an industrial kitchen, there is also a freight transport lift that forms a vertical relationship between the kitchen and the upper floor.
The upper floor, which is limited to the public, is another production area that includes a specific low temperature pasta, a cool room, a storage room and a refrigerated room for bathroom production.
Some already existing architectural elements are retained, such as archway, wooden doors, ladder and wooden handrails. Not only disclosing the original construction technique, the walls have been bare, but also the passage of time.
The service counter and wooden showcase were designed to receive and display daily produced breads for the public.
As part of the kitchen invades the Central Hall, a new metal was proposed to be closed with glass in the tones of the Earth, which strengthens the visual relationship between the public and the production.
New materials were proposed, such as the Portuguese mosaic flooring in the outer areas, providing continuity in the area in front of the bakery from the pavement, in a kind of extended public sector, with a new fixed concrete bench.
