Fugas Lusas / extrastudio

Architects: extrastudio
Location: Setubal, Portugal
Project team: Joao Ferrao, Joao Costa Ribeiro, Madalena Atouguia and Sonia Oliveira
Type: shop/delicatessen
Client: Rogerio Silveira
Contractor: Sergio Cachão unipessoal lda
Project Area: 35 sqm
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Joao Morgado

The studio was commissioned to create a concept for a Portuguese delicacies shop that would also work as a café. Combining these two complementary functions required the creation of a unique space, that could be as extraordinary as the products the client was proposing to sell and as cozy as a neighborhood café.

The construction works started with the opening of a large shop window, exposing the café to the square, as a preview for a future terrace.

New shelves were carved on the thick exterior walls to display a wide range of products. The bar, clad with typical Portuguese ceramic tiles, divides the working areas from the public space. In the ceiling, laser cut plywood panels; duplicate the pattern used on the counter tiled walls.

The furniture is composed by a set of used hardwood chairs from the old assembly room of Setubal’s Fish Industry Union, together with tables with marble tops from Alentejo.