SUNSET BOUTIQUE
Project Type: High end retail store
Site: Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, California, US
Status: Under Construction 2006
Anticipated Completion: May 2007
Size: 7000 Sqft / 700 m2
Client: Private
Based on a radical geometric contextualism, our concept for the 8746 Sunset
Blvd attempts to produce an architecture of subtle sensations by inducing
a physical and optical dynamism that both challenge and enhance the movement
of the body. The formal logic of the facade is the outcome of a productive
negotiation between geometric operations governed by the column grid of
the existing building and driven by spatial conditions allowed by the
singularity of the adjacent context.
The spatial performance of the store is based on the bending effect of
two reciprocally ruled surfaces: the façade that bends inside up
and the pliant stair that bends outside down, create a magnetic field
that gravitates towards the interior. The bent façade operates
as a responsive skin that by means of local inflections senses the dynamics
of pedestrian activity on the sidewalk and nearby strip. The interior
bent surface fluidly shreds into steps allowing the emergence of a differential
hybrid that operates as a stair and display system at the same time.
Sunset Boulevard Shop info from P A T T E R N S (LA Patterns Inc.)
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