?U? Coppu? is a deli shop for fried food, designed with the aim to bring indoors Sicilian street food.

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Architects: Studio DiDeA

Location: Favignana TP, Italy

Architects In Charge: Nicola Giuseppe Andò, Emanuela Di Gaetano, Giuseppe De Lisi, Alfonso Riccio

Area: 78.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Studio Didea and Dario De Benedictis

Collaborator: Dario De Benedictis

Contractor: Giuseppe Morghese

© Studio Didea and Dario De Benedictis

?U? Coppu? is a deli shop for fried food, designed with the aim to bring indoors Sicilian street food.

© Studio Didea and Dario De Benedictis
The project maintains unaltered the original vaulted spaces, where the new functions are hosted: seating area, the kitchen and the laboratory.

© Studio Didea and Dario De Benedictis

The counter evokes a typical street food?s counter. It is made by simple material such as larch, glass and a iron framework, from which light bulbs hang, illuminating the whole space.

Plan

The seating area is separated from the kitchen by a glazed wall that allows customers to see food preparation, that is served in coppu, the typical street food paper cone.

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The floor is made by ...