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Milagrito Mezcal Pavilion

Winners of the Emerging voices of the Architectural League of New York, Ambrosi | Etchegaray completed this Mezcal’s factory in Oaxaca, Mexico, emphasizing the oven as the heart of the entire production process.

Ambrosi | Etchegaray, Milagrito Mezcal Pavilion, Matatlán Oaxaca, Mexico
Matatlán Oaxaca is a traditional town where mezcal – a typical Mexican drink distilled using traditional methods – production takes place.
Local producers struggle to preserve its product in the rising market where traditional means are part of the artisanal production.
Ambrosi | Etchegaray, Milagrito Mezcal Pavilion, Matatlán Oaxaca, Mexico
Ambrosi | Etchegaray, Milagrito Mezcal Pavilion, Matatlán Oaxaca, Mexico. Top and above: Photo © Rafael Gamo
The commission was to renew the spaces for production gaining the necessary approvals to export the mezcal. Ambrosi | Etchegaray’s project organizes the production phases around the earth oven. Frames over frames limit each space where rammed-earth from the plot is placed as a ritual to the land where the family produces its traditional mezcal.

Milagrito Mezcal Pavilion, Matatlán Oaxaca, Mexico
Program: industrial building
Architects: Ambrosi | Etchegaray
Collaborators: Gerardo Reyes
Area: 360 sqm
Completion: 2014

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