Cafe and bakery 56 by RMBA Architekti

On one of the main streets of Ostrava’s Poruba district, there is a house entirely dedicated to bakery operations. On the ground floor, Pekařské bistro 56 is now being built, which opens up to passers-by with large windows and is intended to become exactly the place where you want to start your day with coffee and a warm cake.

We first saw the space with the backdrop of a former nightclub, and even then, it was clear that we needed to get back to the original structures, original surfaces, and original heights. When we did, it was confirmed to us that the scale of the space is generous, as are the windows that connect the space with the street, and everything is crowned by the height of the original concrete ceiling.

Thanks to the sensitivity of the owners and the chef of the future operation, we managed to push through a proposal that exposes the interior of the building in the truth of materials and structures, and whose main goal is to create a scene for what will play the main role – and that is bakery products and coffee. This leitmotif was written in all our steps. The color scheme of the entire interior is the color of flour, off-white, gray, and the color of pastries – brown (sampling was really done with a yeast bread oven, for whose crust we used wooden plywood).