With the common goal of reinventing the coffee shop space in Guatemala, McCafé and Solis Colomer Arquitectos started exploring new ideas that could represent and talk about to the locals and the rest of the world. Based on this vision, McCafé El Zapote presents an open space surrounded by a uniform three-dimensional skin, formed by thousands of wooden blocks that express three main concepts: the passage, the pixels and the tree´s shadow. The passage presents a traditional architectural element found in emblematic public buildings in the historical downtown in Guatemala.These evoke many pleasant and nostalgic memories to the habitants of these neighborhoods and will also tell new stories to the upcoming generations.
