As fundamental as architecture is, the most important thing in architectural projects is still the voids. It's not the full ones, it's not the brick, it's not the steel, it's not wood anymore. It is what empty transmits from the essence of the composition of full ones.
This reflection, in itself, is an understanding of how we should think of architecture as having a role in transforming people's lives. Furthermore, we, at EVM, have been talking about hospitality architecture: an architecture that seeks to go beyond the conventional architecture of doing more of the same.
A few years ago, we had one of the charming café projects we've done selected for work of the year at Archdaily Brazil and International, in 2020, and the award category was hospitality work, to our surprise and flattery.
A hospitality architecture is recognized as something that provides welcoming and comfortable experiences for users. As much as it is a premise of all our projects, knowing that we have a commercial project with recognition of this characteristic was incredible.
Since then, we have had numerous projects published. Perhaps, all with the same premises and different contexts, but, certainly, all in the search for functionality, good aesthetics, comfort, sustainability and user experience. Hospitality needs to go beyond the obvious, it needs to go beyond the full and empty, it needs to touch people, whether visually or sensorially, because as Le Corbusier said, “architecture is about moving”.
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