MNMA Studio

Dois Trópicos Shop

Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz

DOIS TRÓPICOS SHOP

Mnma Studio

ARCHITECTS
Mnma Studio

PHOTOGRAPHS
André Klotz

AREA
8611 ft²

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
São Paulo, Brazil

CATEGORY
Restaurants & Bars, Store, Retail Interiors

“... The front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.”
Akiko Busch

Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz

Every material has its own characteristics and limits for its definition. To work on the threshold of its possibilities - but not defying it - is indeed a fertile ground for advanced thinking and technique development.

Materiality builds the crossing planes that then become carriers for a tonal rhythm; the resulting immersion brings up new intimacy to the architectural space.

Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz

A commercial space that creates a homelike hosting experience, using nostalgia and natural matter, crafted by artisan hands that desire to achieve not perfection but real environments.

The soil reacts allegorically to the sunlight movement along the day, turning walls, ceilings and the floor not into limits or boundaries, but into canvases for the light to express itself gradually in various forms.

Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz

(As it is possible to enjoy comfortably great and authentic food, full of flavours).

The material used was created by a process of cooking the subtle varied colours of earth into bricks, allying the technical drawings to the empirical exercise of craftsmanship.

Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz

The same material was projected onto walls and ceilings, honouring and expanding its plasticity; it expands our senses, bringing texture, tone gradation and detail to the delicate gesture of drawing spaces, even inviting us for a pause to feel the smell of wet earth when it rains.

The staircase was built using raw materials, some leftovers, but although there was a precise drawing, the result is both gestual and intimate, due to small imperfections.

Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz

By contrast, the facade is technological, drafted and executed with precision, thought to allow sun and wind in, to avoid artificial air conditioning systems.

The general purpose is to create a contemporary element that, when opened, would bring back some lost time of ancient forms of construction, slow passing of time, contact with the earth it feels like "home".

Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz


Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz


Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz
Dois Trópicos Shop
© André Klotz


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