Xiaozhuo Boutique / F.O.G. Structure

Textual content description supplied by the architects. Excessive-end vogue model Xiaozhuo has opened a brand new boutique store at 758 Julu Highway in Shanghai. The store combines a number of features that reach from business house to public and leisure house, which permits it to be seamlessly built-in into the area people.

We saved the unique construction of the constructing which turned the place to begin of the design idea. Impressed by the “occasion house” idea from Bernard Tschumi, we tried to discover a state of house with ambiguity and uncertainty that might encourage the interplay between the store and the road. Ultimately, we outlined a couple of architectural parts via the deconstruction of the model’s identification and the method of garment making, creating an eventful and identifiable house with aesthetic varieties.  

Occasion house: the medium between store and avenue. The house is finest described by Tschumi as “in-between”. Retail show is the mission’s preset operate however the pavilion-like exterior challenges it and provides the potential for leisure, leisure, and social. The entrance house not solely serves because the connection between the store and the road but in addition creates an experimental house that permits contrasting occasions to occur.

A “Sowed-up” house: nonlinear design narrative. The ready space and the product show space are in sharp distinction when it comes to palette, materials, form, and scale — stone versus material, gentle gray versus off-white, straight traces versus curved surfaces — permitting the prev
ious to develop into a transitional space of features and kinds, connecting the interiors to the exteriors, whereas guiding the client behaviors by the shifting of views and contact.

Palimpsest: the traces of the previous. Impressed by the artwork kind “hyperart Thomasson”, our thought of renovation is to not take away the outdated components or intentionally keep away from the publicity of the unique construction, however to permit them to face out by altering the colours or supplies, including plenty of enjoyable components to the house.

Any renovation might be seen as a “palimpsest” or an organism with its personal evolutionary historical past, we need to take part within the writing of its progress and retain some historic traces in awe, via which we share the enjoyment of discovery.