newitalianblood

What we enjoyed the most when doing a project in which we are able to intervene an old building, is the great opportunity to transform it for a new useful life. The project for the restaurant El Presidio Casa Bon gave us for raw material a nineteenth century mansion in Culiacan, Sinaloa, in the northern part of Mexico. The property was abandoned and was showing the existing building materials, so we decided to use this condition and turn it into the axis of our project. One of the elements that caught our attention was the original floors of the building, with chess style in black and white. Combining these two elements we decided to leave the walls and ceilings apparent, restoring only the parts where needed and even left the plants in their natural form that had already taken over some areas. Inspired by the original floor, we made a new proposal to refer to its past with a different geometric pattern that gives a new image and dynam