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Taller KEN infuses color into Costa Rican fashion brand Hija de Tigre's new San José boutique

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Taller KEN infuses color into Costa Rican fashion brand Hija de Tigre's new San José boutique

A tropical gradient facade ties together the different original and added volumes of the structure together. (Andres Garcia Lachner)

New York and Guatemala-based architecture practice Taller KEN has transformed a formerly unimpressive modernist block in San José, Costa Rica’s trendy Escazú neighborhood into a multi-volume boutique for local fashion brand Hija de Tigre. Evoking the label’s ethos and business structure—being run by women of different generations—the architecture and interiors project incorporates a full-color spectrum.

Renovating an existing building, the firm added additional concrete volumes and did away with obstructive ornamentation to render a more perfect cluster of boxes. Inspired, in part, by Latin American architects Luis Barragán and Ricardo Bofill, the facade is clad in a tropical gradient that ties all components of the architecture together.

“The facade is a consequence of the context,” Taller KEN co-founder and principal Inés Guzmán said. “Until very recently, suburban San José was farmland. Today it is gated communities of houses and convenience malls and shopping centers. For us, the project was an opportunity to make the stand-alone building “stand out” and bring a fresh, hip and colorful vibe to the surroundings and break from the standard palette of new constructions you see around.”

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