Alma Latina

8, Via Giuseppe Baretti, Torino, Italy

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Alma Latina

8, Via Giuseppe Baretti, Torino, Italy

Firm

Type

Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant

YEAR

2012

Located
in the neighborhood of San Salvario, Alma Latina is a restaurant part of a new
movement in Turin (Italy). Inspired in shapes, colors and concepts of the old
and new Latin American style, it was the product of a countdown work. MG2
ARCHITETTURE in collaboration with Quattrolinee created an urban Latin American
atmosphere by using the representative materials and graphics of the South
America's cities in a smart way. The corrugated metal normally used in the slum
and the street art that is growing nowadays, together with the neutral colors
of the restaurant, generated an unique composition that identifies Alma Latina
as one of the kind. Customers walk into an open space with an industrial steel
bar in the middle also defined by the reused sphere lamps. The suspended mdf
circles with packaging symbols personalized the place while new light bulbs
attached to black cables dangle from the ceiling. In the other two spaces the corrugated metal
were used as vertical surfaces for Latin American's collages and stencils
creating a new Tapas corner and a secondary room. A strong concept, an accurate
materials choice and a closed relation between architecture and graphics design
created an easy-going atmosphere perfect to allow the food speaks for itself.