Design firm: Faci Leboreiro
Project name: Cuattro Casa De Café
Location: Troncones, Guerrero, Mexico 
Dimensions: 402 square meters

In the seaside village of Troncones, Faci Leboreiro studio has designed a project that invites visitors to indulge in the slow (and therapeutic) pace of a “coffee break” in an oasis of peace suspended between the ocean and the forest and shaped around the trees. The project incorporates a café with a restaurant, bakery, artisan product retail area and private office, and takes shape by incorporating and circling the carefully preserved existing vegetation, around which two parallel buildings—separated by an avenue—are arranged, along with a third building situated at the end of the path. Natural and durable materials – from exposed concrete to local timber and gravel pathways – combined with a careful study of natural ventilation flows and orientations, meet the functional requirements of thermal inertia, durability and micro-climatic comfort in the region’s scorching climate and integrate the buildings into their surroundings, creating a permeable and relaxed space where the boundaries between inside and outside are pleasantly blurred.