Offices

Kavak Hub

Kavak’s hub inside Dot Baires: showroom, offices and 15,000 m² of parking.

Retail hub and officesBuenos Aires300 m² indoor and 15,000 m² of parking
Status
Completed
Type
Retail hub and offices
Location
Dot Baires Shopping, Buenos Aires
Country
Argentina
Area
300 m² indoor and 15,000 m² of parking
Year
2020
Team
Arch. Fernando Hitzig
Arch. Leonardo Militello
Arch. Jeanette Zotta

Kavak is a company dedicated to the sale of used vehicles, leader in the Mexican market. The first step of this unicorn company to regionalize its business was Argentina. For this reason the identity came from the mother company, but it only had the graphic identity development.

Our job was to receive the directives on the guidelines on the functional organization used in Mexico, add the palette of materials, and with all this compose a sober tonal balance that accurately represents the brand. Therefore, we had to develop a tectonic identity linked to the graphic identity generated in Kavak Mexico. This is how we investigated materials that define the brand as is the example of the black corrugated sheet metal, the proposed furniture, lighting, which have been a key part of this new identity.

We explored and developed the resource of diagonals as an expression associated with the letter K, which can be verified from the windows, the lighting layout, and the metallic divisions & vegetation that shape the delimitation of the open space whose areas are divided by the consultation of the sample case and reception.

The space comprises a 300-square-meter customer service showroom (with a reception area, a meeting room and 14 terminals for consulting the sample collection), a comprehensive vehicle inspection center for on-the-spot vehicle condition assessment, and a further 15,000 square meters with the capacity to house up to 700 cars from the company's inventory.

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