MACh Arquitetos

Mine Museum And Archive’s Café

Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro

MINE MUSEUM AND ARCHIVE’S CAFÉ

Mach Arquitetos

ARCHITECTS
Mach Arquitetos

LOCATION
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

YEAR
2010

CATEGORY
Coffee Shop

PHOTOGRAPHS
Gabriel Castro

STRUCTURE
Eng. Hélio Chumbinho

CLIMATE
 Eng. Carlos E. Braga de Resende

INSTLATION
Eng. Carlos Alberto Oliveira

Text description provided by architect.

The building designed to house a new café for the Museum and the Public Archives of Minas Gerais starts with the judicious use of the free space between the two buildings which are important architectural examples built by the Building Committee of the new capital at the end of the 19th century.

Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro
Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro

The complex's initial purpose was to house the Senate and the Finance Minister's residence.

With the intention of preserving the free area between the two buildings, the café is partially underground.

Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro
Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro

The concrete slab over the new space configure a grassy square that best integrates existing buildings both visually and functionally, providing better mutual access and flows between the floors leveled by this re-designing of the public space.

A new concrete block, with the function of vertical circulation and access to the superintendent of Museums building, complete the harmonious architectural composition around the square.

Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro


Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro
Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro
Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro
Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro
Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro
Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
© Gabriel Castro


Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
Plan - Cafe
Mine Museum And Archive’s Café
Plan - Public Space


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