Sense Hair Studio by Xiang Ji is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.

IronInterior· 2021

Sense Hair Studio

by Xiang Ji

Client: Neo Design

A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Sense Hair Studio

Sense is a hair studio interior designed as an expressive space rather than a standard commercial salon. The concrete surfaces of the original old building are retained and combined with new materials, including a large area of white stone coating. The contrast between old texture and new finish gives the space its character. The layout avoids complex circulation and links waiting, changing clothes, hair washing and hairdressing in one direct sequence. Light and shadow allow a clear visual connection from every seat. The intent is to offer visitors more than hairdressing alone.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award

Sense Hair Studio is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Sense Hair Studio is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Sense Hair Studio is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: WarmSymmetry: Both DirectionsBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Designers don’t take it as a traditional commercial space designed. Besides the necessary functions, Designers pay more attention to her artful expressiveness and emotional interaction. Designers hope all the people can get more surprises except hairdressing itself.
Dimensions & Packaging: We did not do complicated moving lines in spatial planning. What we want to express are directed interactions, such as waiting, changing clothes, washing head and hairdressing, writing at one's stretch.
Tags: Texture, Light And Shadow, Mottled, Sense Of Ritual, Space
Production Technology: Retaining all the old building's texture and mixing together new materials can produce a different chemical reaction. Maybe she is contradictory, she is opposed, but they are dependent in the end.
Design Challenge: In order to have the same texture as the concrete of the original building, we made a lot of discussions on the shape of the reworked concrete wall, including the proportion of materials and the shade of color. It was found that no matter how we distressed the wall, it was still not comparable to the one polished by the years.
Research: By reorganizing the store's space, the designer creates a space that meets the needs of the target customer group, breaks the boring pattern of traditional beauty stores, and helps the brand to further enhance and expand the business.
Inspiration: The inspiration comes from Istoria hotel in Santorini.
Sometimes, the moment of wonderful things skipping ahead attracts us a lot.
If you can not stand in front of her immediately,
Then you can draw her out.
That's the designer's special insistence for niceness.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2020 in Jiangsu and finished in May 2020 in Jiangsu.
Operation Flow: We pay more attention to let all people that sit at any angle in this space feel the direct visual communication of beautiful things.