Mesh-covered Buenos Aires wine shop designed to "resonate with the city's texture"
Local studio Juan Campanini – Josefina Sposito has fronted wine shop Enofilo with a metallic mesh facade that responds directly to the complex Buenos Aires streetscape.
At 175 square metres (1,883 square feet), Enofilo opened in 2025 inside an existing house on Avenida Juramento in the rapidly densifying Bajo Belgrano neighbourhood.
The studio worked to create a space that worked with the challenging spatial and stylistic constraints of the neighbourhood.
"The project was inspired by the challenge of working within a city like Buenos Aires – a place made up of countless small fragments that together compose its urban landscape," Juan Campanini – Josefina Sposito told Dezeen. "We wanted our intervention to belong to that fabric, to add one more layer that could resonate with the city's texture."
Like a woven fabric, sliver-coloured metallic mesh stretches across the existing brick wall, standing apart from the context while acknowledging the shop's role as a fragment in the larger urban realm, the studio explained.
The facade works in tandem with a blue, metallic staircase that stands where the original patio once was, serving as an organising element for the spatial sequence and connection to the project's urban and domestic scales.
"The facade, a precise and shimmering plane, mediates between the life of the street and the interior, marking the threshold to the wine shop," the studio said.
"The facade mesh is cut into precise panels that follow the subtle variations of the front – its step, door and window – and is screwed onto a hidden frame behind it," the studio explained.
"Although it appears smooth and continuous, the surface is composed of individual parts whose proportions increase gradually from bottom to top, in crescendo."
Seemingly small from the street, the building extends deep into the plot, passing from the entrance to the staircase, which "anchors the space" and bridges the front of the building to the courtyard in the back of the block.
Visitors enter into a communal tasting area lined with built-in shelving used as a wine library, also clad in mesh.
A dark granite surface serves as a counter, set under rough, sand-coloured plaster ceilings.
A large, white-painted structural collumn rises from polished concrete flooring and marks the ground-level hallway, where auxiliary rooms were placed off to one side.
The lower half of the walls and counters was painted a soft blue that connects the interiors to the staircase, which has a vaulted awning as it leads to the upper floor.
The delicate, cross-shaped pattern of the perforated metal diffuses air and light.
On the second floor, a long table and large windows open the private office space to the city skyline.
The studio said that the mesh scheme helped to draw focus to the most important elements in the project.
"The key lesson is understanding how to focus energy – deciding which elements of a project will carry the greatest relevance," the studio said.
"In this case, we chose to focus on redefining the building's street-front relation and elevating the staircase through its surface treatment. Both elements, ordinary in name, become special through form and materials."
Other recently designed wine shops include a burgundy leather-wrapped showroom in Milan by Eligo Studio, a Brooklyn bar with a "soothing atmosphere" by Studio Ahead and a cave-like interior with a vaulted ceiling in Valladolid, Spain by Zooco Estudio.
The photography is by Javier Agustín Rojas.
Project credits:
Architects: Juan Campanini – Josefina Sposito
Project Team: Valentina Lucardi, Valentina Bauger, Martina Pera, Emilia Conde
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