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Gustos Academia del Café

MV Studio

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Gustos Academia del Café - Designed by MV Studio. Photography by Paola Quevedo Santos.
Tasting laboratory nook with glass and steel window looking towards roasting facility. - Designed by MV Studio. Photography by Paola Quevedo Santos.
Gustos Academia del Café - Designed by MV Studio. Photography by Paola Quevedo Santos.

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Learning Space
4.50
5.75
4.83
4.75
4.96
Andre Flinterhoff
Andre Flinterhoff Cofounder at Archicon Architectural Intelligence
Remarkable stringent design where e...
7.5
7.5
8
7
7.5
Christina Wissing Oppermann
Christina Wissing Oppermann Commercial Director at Brandt Collective
7.5
7.79
8.07
7.5
7.72
Anda Zota
Anda Zota Editor in Chief at Igloo
7.24
7.6
6.74
7.45
7.26
Horace Pan
Horace Pan Founder at Panorama Design Group
6
5.5
6
5
5.63
Talar Bardakjian
Talar Bardakjian Creative Director at ODG
Really Interesting approach on crea...
7
5.8
6.5
5.9
6.3
Claudio Pironi
Claudio Pironi CEO at Claudio Pironi & Partners
7
5.5
7
7
6.63
Stephanie Ledoux
Stephanie Ledoux Partner at AW²
5.72
5.61
5.61
5.89
5.71
Filip Janssen
Filip Janssen Founder at Zware Jongens
6.9
7.2
7.5
5.6
6.8
Arne Schultchen
Arne Schultchen Founder and Creative Director at design for human nature
6.5
5.75
6.5
5
5.94
Bart Veen
Bart Veen Experience Designer at Bart.Agency
7
8
8
7
7.5
Christian Buratti
Christian Buratti Art Director at Quadrastudio
7
6.5
7.5
6
6.75
Peter Culley
Peter Culley Founder and Creative Director at Spatial Affairs Bureau
Nice to find some restrained humour...
7.02
6.88
7.13
7.95
7.25
Salone
Salone Founder at Salone del Salon
6.17
6.24
6.17
6.02
6.15
Designer
Client
Gustos Coffee Company
Floor area
139 ㎡
Completion
2020
MV Studio / Design Director
MV Studio / Principal Architect
MV Studio / Architectural Designer
Graphic Designer
Wiwi Ortiz

We endeavored to create an educational space with very clean lines and elevated inconspicuous beauty where the materiality and design elements did not become a distraction for the students that participate in the hands-on approach of the specialty coffee industry training programs. Specialty coffee theory and sensory laboratory classrooms have strict physical space and environmental requirements that regulate room dimensions, furniture placement and spacing, acoustics, air quality, ventilation, and lighting to ensure a high standard controlled environment for learning. The facilities include multiple strategies and educational seating spaces for the different learning programs. As you navigate through the space, the simple elegance of the wood trimmed white walls that lead to a glass and steel framed window with the main sensory training classroom beyond. Adjacent to the main classroom, off to the side, stands an auxiliary nook marked by a flooring transition to black mosaic tile that houses a laboratory table for coffee tasting and analysis framed by a factory window with a view of the high-capacity roasting facilities housed in the same building. Upon entering the main classroom, you appreciate the meticulous programming of furnishing, custom light fixtures and other essential training campus equipment necessary for students and industry professionals. Though at first sight the red rigid pipes and bare bulbs may seem as a purely aesthetic endeavor, their function and purpose in the classroom is for coffee olfactory testing where light levels need to be able to mask the color of coffee but still allow for students to see their test forms and walk through the room safely. The result is a beautiful and clean lab space that complies with all educational requirements and promotes learning while still being full of creative touches.