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Polanc, Mexico City, Mexico

NOSO is a project that defies creativity and designing skills, we designed a signature cuisine restaurant in a small space: 70 diners in 180 sq.m. (1,937.5sq. ft.) with a limited budget, creating a space that would dazzles the diner and fulfills the client’s expectations.

We designed several distribution schemes, maximizing circulation spaces and comprising the preparation area in a single work island, so the kitchen reduced its size significantly, achieving the desired capacity.

We work only with craftsmen and to achieve the desired effect, we explore the transformation of economic and regional materials, through these artisanal processes, in elegant, sophisticated and national pieces.

For example, the grey granite of the walls was scratched in strips of 2 cm (0.79 in.), alternating with the complete pieces, creating an interesting texture in the stone volumes; the steel lattices that envelop the whole space were cut and assembled by hand, complementing the sober atmosphere of the place; we used Mexican oak by transforming it into singular pieces, creating a striking access corridor.

Every corner of the restaurant was designed to generate a functional and spacious environment. The execution of the project, also carried out by us, was done in a time of 3 months and a half.