*'모순'이란 컨셉의 바 - [ El Equipo Creativo ] EL MAMA & LA PAPA Bar Restaurant

"모순"이란 모순되거나 반대되는 의미를 가진 단어를 완성하는 것으로 구성된다. 이런 이름의 장소를 의뢰한 건축주는 반대가 혼합된 장소, 즉 남자 - 여자, 흑 - 백, 밤 - 낮의 공간을 만들어주길 원했다. 그러면서도 해질녁에는 음식과 음료, 파티와 춤의 분위기가 어울리는 드라마가 펼쳐질 공간이기를 바라기도 했다. 따라서 디자인의 개념은 모든 요소들이 대조법을 사용하는 것을 기반으로 했는데, 두 개의 쌍을 이룬 네온 불빛을 통해 평화와 힘, 신성함과 지옥, 공개와 비밀 등의 메시지를 보내게 했다. 특히 바에 서로 다른 높이의 구조적 플랫폼을 제안하였는데 이는 서로를 마주하면서 개인의 공간이자 비밀의 장소를 구성한다.

An "oxymoron" consists of completing a word with another that has a contradictory or opposite meaning. As the name of the place lets us intuit, our client wanted to create a place that played with the duality and the mixture of opposites: man - woman, white - black, day - night. At dusk, in addition to food and drinks, a burlesque show would be offered to give way to an atmosphere of partying and dancing.

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Architects: El Equipo Creativo 

Location: Passatge de Pere Calders, 2, 08015 Barcelona, Spain 

Neon Design: Alex Trochut 

Area: 500.0 m2 

Project Year: 2016 

Photographs: Adrià Goula 

Manufacturers: Thonet, Tom Dixon, GUBI, Stellar works

THE PROJECT

The place is an old warehouse of preserves, was a space with a great personality at a structural level, which we wanted to put in value by painting it in intense red in a way that unifies the different zones of the space.

The concept of design is based on the opposition of elements, where all the pieces have their counterpoint. Four large neon lights welcome us on arrival from the four corners of space, almost square in shape. Contrast in pairs of two, they send us a clear message in the form of oxymoron: Never - Again, Peace - Force, Holy - Hell, Public - Secret. The starting point is clear.

Two arches frame the central space at double height and serve as background to the two large bars. Next to the white arch in front, the bar "El Mama" is a bar 360 degrees, more diurnal and cozy, with details in wood and a lot of vegetation. At the opposite end, the cocktail bar "El Papa", on the black arch, is the nocturnal counterpoint, metallic and industrial.

On the sides of the bars we propose structural platforms at different heights, connected with a large gateway-stage, creating multiple routes through space. These platforms, once again facing each other, generate more private areas, reserved for events, and even a "secret bar".

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