Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
18 hours agoSAANCI Coffee (Aranya North Bay Store) / NUC Studio
A southern coffee brand creates a northern coffee shop that answers how to belong through layered spatial hierarchy, communal ties, and everyday poetry.
Long before architecture took the form of walls, roofs, or cities, it gathered people around fire. The simple fire pit was one of humanity's earliest spatial devices: a place for warmth, food, storytelling, and ritual. Around it, space took shape through proximity rather than enclosure, through shared presence rather than prescribed use. The fire organized bodies in a circle, fostered alliances, and turned survival into collective life.
House Roja is a project designed for a man who alternates his residence between his hometown (El Grullo) and abroad, where he develops professionally. For this reason, a place was envisioned that is truly pleasurable to be in after a long period of work away from loved ones,