Craft Bakery Buny Bakery

Buny, a craft bakery and breakfast café, is located on the ground floor of a residential building in the housing estate of 500 apartments. It features a characteristic wall-column structural system, which in this case consists of reinforced concrete columns, brick walls made of solid fired clay, and a ceiling of concrete prefabricates. These elements, along with noble stainless steel, have created the material schema for the entire establishment. The leitmotif of the design is the revealing of layers, dealing with the natural materiality of the construction elements typical of the residential building colony, and the "deformation" characteristic of working with dough. This is manifested in the rounding of the WC wall and other inserted elements and is interwoven with the visual identity and logo of the establishment. The large-format windows not only provide natural light but also offer various types of seating on the sills both inside and outside, engaging in a dialogue with the street and enriching the public space.

The roughly processed building materials contrast with the smooth stainless steel surfaces, whose aesthetics and functionality permeate from the baking machines and kitchen equipment to the built-in pieces of locksmith-processed furniture. Metal appears in most of the inserted furnishings. The functionality of these elements creates a specific aesthetic that extends into the sales area, where the customer themselves becomes part of the production whole. The floor consists of ground screed concrete with river gravel, complementing the material framework derived from the structural elements. A softer impression of the space is created by oak window frames and sills, as well as wooden tables with chairs in the sales area.

The layout resulted in minimal structural interventions. The logical spatial integration of two types of food and beverage preparation occurs along the axis of the columns. These divide the operation into café, kitchen, and bakery sections. The partition walls are made of cut bricks to enhance the appearance of the original masonry walls. The hygienic facilities are also constructed from solid fired clay bricks, which carry the original materiality. The anteroom of the restrooms is extended into the hygiene corridor, where a stainless steel sink is set into the window reveal with a view of the street.

The work encompasses its complexity, including the visual identity of the operation, and utilizes it in the shaping of door handles, restroom signage, and shelves for water or illuminated profiles. It thus offers an approach to the former principle of creation and detail work "gesamtkunstwerk."