Curving Glass Interior in the United Bamboo Clothes Store

Exterior United Bamboo of the Building Skin a Screen of Stainless-Steel

Rack of Hanging Clothes on Interior Space United Bamboo

Racks Inside Interior the Store the Hanging Clothes

The Interior Resembles Fabric PVC Pulled Down United Bamboo Store

The Rack Clothes Store Skin Glows Light from Fluorescents the PVC

United Bamboo Clothes Store Two-Story Building on a Narrow Street

Project Description

United Bamboo designed on Daikanyama by Acconci Studio, the exterior of the building is given a second skin a screen of stainless-steel mesh that encloses the balcony and re-shapes the building the framework crosses the mesh in diagonals, radiating from some unknown point and traveling around the building, re-orienting the building. Site existent two-story building on a narrow street of closely-spaced buildings, many of them recently turned into clothing stores squeezed into its small lot. The second floor is narrower than the first, with a balcony at one side; the building is clad in white modular stucco panels, it bespeaks be a residence.

A Glass Façade Breaks Through The Screen it bulges into the first floor, it’s as if it pulls back to accept you past mirrored side-walls, which mix inside and outside, you walk through a sliding door. The glass façade bulges out from the second floor, which houses the office and showroom projected on the upper façade, out to the street, are images of people in clothes from the store. A Store On The Surface, A Store That’s All Surface. The skin glows from within light from fluorescents behind the PVC, is diffused throughout the store. The clothing is lit from above and behind the surface lights the store. A Clothing Store As Soft As Skin. The interior resembles fabric, like the clothes in the store it’s PVC sheeting, rear-projection screen. The PVC is pulled down, arched down, from the ceiling onto the walls it’s pulled out from the walls, and pushed back in, to make shelves it’s pulled out and around to make a counter. At the front of the store, the PVC is pulled up from the ceiling, over the second floor façade it makes the projection screen.

The edges of the concrete floor are cut short of the walls, leaving a gap around the store; the PVC drops away, disappears, into a channel of light around the store. The channel of light branches off from the sides into the middle around the counter, around the deployable dressing room, under the hanging clothes as they veer out of the glass alcoves. Clothes In The Jungle. The small store bulges out of itself; the non-structural walls of the old building are removed, and curving glass alcoves push out into the weeds and overgrown shrubbery around the store. A rack of hanging clothes is stored inside each alcove, apart from the confines of the store, and inserted within the miniature jungle outside you look at clothes against a background of jungle you take a piece of clothing out from the jungle.

PVC from ceiling and walls is pulled back into the glass alcoves it slopes down and up, above and below hanging clothes, and makes a stage for them. The racks extend inside the store the hanging clothes have moved in from outside. As customers weave around the racks, in and out of nooks, as they take time to move through the store, the small store feels larger.

From either of the three-sided mirrors, you can pull out PVC, on floor and ceiling tracks, and draw it around you to make a dressing room. Two mirrors land inside the dressing room, while one remains outside, for casual viewing. A panel pivots down from one mirror inside the dressing room, it makes a shelf when there’s no dressing room, you might sit here and wait for a friend who’s shopping. Two more seats are folded up into flattened triangles and hung on the racks you take one down and bring it where you want, to try on shoes.

A leftover space between structural walls, too small for shelves, is turned into a mirrored niche. Two vertical mirrors touch at right angles, while a horizontal mirror above slopes down inward inside the niche, you can see yourself from the sides and from above. If you stand back and look into the middle, between mirrors, your image is non-reversed it’s as if you’re facing another person. Two people, standing in front of each mirror, look at themselves through each other’s gaze.de, facing the street you’re wearing the clothes you want, you’re looking good, you testify for United Bamboo.[Acconci Studio Architects]

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