Design: Paz Arquitectura Date of design: 2020 Date of construction: 2021 Construction: CONARQ Photography: Paz Arquitectura
Sophos bookstore has been constituted in the past 20 years as the epicenter of Guatemalan culture trough literature, research and socializing.
The project is a partial remodeling job in certain exhibition areas and integrating de outdoors pergola with the indoors café, the kitchen and restrooms. There is also a new module for children’s literature.
For the children’s area there is a new design of furniture to store the book and produce reading areas keeping in mind that the main characters are the children and young people,
The concept is a playful scheme depicting the sky and the outdoors, evoking nature and the infinite possibilities that the sky and the universe can give to the imagination.