Matatlán Oaxaca is a traditional town where mezcal – a typical Mexican drink distilled using traditional methods – production takes place.
Milagrito Mezcal Pavilion
Winners of the Emerging voices of the Architectural League of New York, Ambrosi | Etchegaray completed this Mezcal’s factory in Oaxaca, Mexico, emphasizing the oven as the heart of the entire production process.
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- 14 September 2015
- Oaxaca
Local producers struggle to preserve its product in the rising market where traditional means are part of the artisanal production.
The commission was to renew the spaces for production gaining the necessary approvals to export the mezcal. Ambrosi | Etchegaray’s project organizes the production phases around the earth oven. Frames over frames limit each space where rammed-earth from the plot is placed as a ritual to the land where the family produces its traditional mezcal.
Milagrito Mezcal Pavilion, Matatlán Oaxaca, Mexico
Program: industrial building
Architects: Ambrosi | Etchegaray
Collaborators: Gerardo Reyes
Area: 360 sqm
Completion: 2014