Bridging the notion of precise inquiries and creative play, the culinary school and pastelaria (Portuguese patisserie) serves as a space where the nomadic lifestyle takes over, and one is engaged by the space through private, tentative thoughts. Aiming to enhance the realm of a cultural culinary creation, architecture acts as a way of secondary rule making. Through studying different types of ‘play’ and its presence in cultures and traditions, such qualities constructed the architectural language. Ludus refers to game, where rules are explicit and reliant on agreement, whereas paideia is spontaneous, with no established rules: it is based upon shared assumptions of the illusory. Examples of play helped investigations, from surfacing and functional layouts to specific moments of the building that overall create an internal world for exploration. Designed to enable reflective relationships and the visitors' use of their cognitive intuition, these qualities of play take form within the static building envelope. ‘Pastelaria of Play: Culinário Lúdico’ encourages its visitors to be one with the space.