Interiors
A Metaphorical Expression
Japanese architects Keiichiro Sako and Takeshi Ishizaka of SAKO Architects, designed a boutique for ROMANTICISM - a lady brand, showcasing the creative collaborations between global brand and architecture.
Located in the neighbourhood of Xihu Lake, close to the center of Hangzhou, Japan, this Contemporary retail design is an interpretation of space as third skin wraping body.
“Clothes are what being cut and made of two-dimensional fabric and wrap up three-dimensional body. It started with the idea of adjusting temperature and later grew up into the second skin. Spaces also wrap up body, adjusting temperature. However being different from clothes, space cannot move.” says the project Architect.
The interaction with material goods ranges from a variety of sensory experiences to acts of imagination in which the self is mirrored in the potential object of acquisition. Thus, by mixing reality and fantasy while keeping function at the forefront, Architects combined references to product display, decorative arts, fashion and architectural iconography to create a modern identity for the store, expressing brand’s cutting-edge fashion sense and history. Instead of space defining elements such as floor, wall or ceiling, the elements like partition, furniture, counter, chair and railing, act as third skin between space and clothes; everything literally revolves around this concept by dissolving these elements to the organic net that further traverse through the entire space acting as the central feature of the display and experience.
This organic net comprise of bone, flesh as well as skin, Where Bone is a metaphor for ordinary reinforcing steel, flesh is form insulation and glass fiber, and skin is epoxy resin as well as oil paint. As an enlarged motif of body and clothes, some display holes were made in three-dimensional white wall. Visitors are enveloped by space, netlike surfaces of the store, leading to a staircase that takes them from the bustle of the street, to the first floor. The mirror-finished stainless in the ceiling of the first floor accomodates the illumination aids and creats an illusion of water over the head ,while the reflections enhance the scale of the space with otherwise low ceiling.
From an icon view that the boutique is intended to convey highlighting their public utility, has designed a skin as well as its formality and its folds based spatiality expresses identity. The overall scheme attempts to express ‘Clothes like space’ or ‘Space like clothes’.
Materials:
Floor: cement mortar, white tile, white marble finish
Ceiling: stainless steel compound board mirror finish
Wall: lumber core back, plaster board water paint finish
Net: steel rod, Styrofoam, glass fiber, epoxy resin, water paint finish
Furniture: Almost all furniture is made by the same material and method as "net."
Text: Ritu Sharma
Photographs: Koji Fujii / Nacása & Partners Inc
Drawings: courtesy the SAKOArchitects
Project: | Romanticism II, Hangzhou, Japan |
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Client: | Langmanyishen Limited Company |
Designer: | SAKO Architects |
Design team: | Keiichiro Sako, Takeshi Ishizaka/ SKSK architects |
Lighting consultant: | Masahide Kakudate (Lighting Architect & Associates,Inc.) |
Contractor: | Hangzhou Shun Xiang Tools Product Company |
Floor area: | 1,142 sqms |
Costs: | 100,000 euro |
Date of completion: | 16/08/2007 |
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