Osten Coffee Shop – Casa FOA

/ Food & beverage

2025

Madero Harbour, Juana Manso 1980, CABA
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Project Team

Arch. Fernando Hitzig
Arch. Leonardo Militello

Team:
Arch. Sofía Kesting
Arch. Camila Lacarpia
Arch. Vicente Abello Pueyo
Arch. Milagros Rivelli
Arch. Victoria Nabias
Arch. Julieta Leibovich
Alejandro Llerena

Program

Coffee Shop

Area

3500sqft

Suppliers

Acontec SRL

Photography

Uchimay fotos

Services

CD

Conceptual Design & Art

HMA Arquitectos

DD

Design Development

HMA Arquitectos

CD

Construction Documents & Managment

HMA Arquitectos

Abstract

The Madero Harbor complex is prominently located in the enclave of Puerto Madero, that territory where the city is reflected in the water and the natural clashes with the artificial. The concept of margin, edge, and limit where the urban layout, a product of culture, collides with the natural immensity of the river, becomes the starting point for the project, which invites us to rethink architecture as a complex and stimulating contradiction due to the clash of opposites.

From this emerges the proposal: two spaces that embody the duality between, on the one hand, the rationalist order (minimalism) and, on the other, the sensorial exaltation (maximalism). The Miesian grid offers a conceptual framework: it organizes the floor plan through axial axes, affecting the rest of the elements, proposing different situations of use.

The project thus emerges as a territory of dualities and conflicts. It is a maximized minimalism, contemporary and modern; with disaggregated straight stone slabs and hyper-textured curves, a dynamic vegetation is integrated, yet static and framed. Its neutral tones balance the expressiveness of its materials, and its contradictions ultimately invite the provocation of an experience.

Publication

/ Local & Global

La Nación

Argentina
October 2025

Clarin ARQ

Argentina
October 2025