We really like bakeries. And we specially love bakeries with a legitimate perception of style and fashion. We have written about bakeries for pretty much two decades and we keep on to glance for contemporary tips.
In the Mi Pan Bakery project, we really like the candid admission of the designers that they identified they could not develop a structure that was way too present day, way too funky or also diverse as it might transform individuals absent and intimidate custom-loving customers who are not utilised to “designer” bakeries. However the designers also wanted to evoke a distinct sensation of newness and freshness to update the picture of the 40-year-previous brand.
For four many years, Mi Pan has been a bakery for every person, for youthful and aged. It was important for the brand name to stay an “everyone’s” bakery, to not look snobbish or pretentious. And as bread is an integral part of many Mexican traditions and celebrations, it was essential to go on the open-to-all and element-of-everyone’s-lifestyle model values.
The work was done by Concentrico, an interdisciplinary collaboration studio of architects and designers, primarily based in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Monterrey, Mexcio. The studio is led by innovative director Alejandro Peña Villarreal who was also the head architect of the Mi Pan job. Other key project sales opportunities have been architects Ana Rebeca Mata and Jose Maria Cuevas and industrial designer May possibly Cisneros.
To fully grasp the project’s connection with the in the vicinity of and distant past of Mexico, the designers at Concentrico not only analyzed the history of the model but also the visible and realistic traditions and customs of Mexican bakeries in normal.
As a final result, the bakery’s guarantee “Siempre bueno masa a migaja” – usually fantastic from dough to crumb – stays unchanged and it is also really noticeable on the back again wall of the retail store. The aprons of the personnel have the concept “Prueba el Pan de Verdad” – Consider the actual bread.
The over-all ambiance of the bakery is open and clean, heat and inviting, but it is not cozy or homey. There is a sense of output and big scale with metallic trays, rows of shelving and big displays.
There are number of visible or actual physical barriers concerning the prospects and the bakers, and the energetic manufacturing tempo of a hectic bakery is brazenly obvious to all. At the exit, clients will come across a display screen of the classic celebratory breads, Rosca de Reyes and Pan de Muertos.
“Rosca de Reyes” (kings’ wreath) is a Mexican regular celebratory bread wreath loved with family and friends on “Dia de Reyes” on January 6th (Epiphany Working day or Kings Day). A little plastic figurine is positioned within the wreath symbolising toddler Jesus. The person who finds the figurine is envisioned to toss a fiesta and provide tamales for anyone on” Dia de la Candelaria” on February 2.
“Pan de Muertos” (bread of the lifeless) is an crucial element of a “Dia de Los Muertos” (celebrated in Oct or November) home shrine or ofrenda. The bread’s reason is to nourish the lifeless who check out the land of the residing on that day. Tuija Seipell
Pictures Jose Miguel Gonzales/Apertura Studio, Juan Pablo Tavela/Jpark Studio
