The Animal Backbone Retail Store by Eason Zhu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
GoldInterior· 2022
The Animal Backbone Retail Store
by Eason Zhu
Client: FununitDesign
Golden A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About The Animal Backbone Retail Store
The Animal Backbone is a retail store interior located in Shanghai, inside a historic building that once served as a slaughterhouse and is now a cultural and creative center. The space covers 100 square meters and is built with metal plate, mirror and glass. The layout follows the walking track of a cat, and a circle divides the inner and outer areas. Doors and windows allow views between the two zones, while living room, dining, kitchen and bathroom scenes are arranged inside. The design invites reflection on people and animals sharing the city.
The Recognition
About the Golden A' Design Award
The Animal Backbone Retail Store is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. The Animal Backbone Retail Store is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. The Animal Backbone Retail Store creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
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Narrative Interior Design for Retail Spaces
We transform commercial spaces through experimental storytelling and meaningful design. Our international team creates environments that connect brands with customers on deeper levels. Winner of the prestigious A' Design Award, we specialize in retail interiors that balance function with narrative impact.
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- Unique Properties
- This once the first slaughterhouse in the Far East, where countless lives were got killed, it is fascinating but attracts a lot of tourists. Today, this building has become a famous cultural and creative industry center in Shanghai.
Respecting the tens of thousands of animal souls, we are always looking for a way to have a commemorative architecture, trying to make an icy building to echo the concrete, and to arouse the painful memories and facts of killing animals because of lust. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 100m2
- Tags
- animal,Moving line, Commemorative
- Production Technology
- metal plate,mirror,glass
- Design Challenge
- On the other side of the commemorative space, it wants to bring more thinking about the harmonious symbiosis between humans and animals. The meaning of the symbiotic space "animal backbone" is to bear the burden of history with the animal, Pursuing humans and animals how to better live in harmony in the historical environment and share the wonderful experience brought by this city. pidan proposed the concept of stray animal adoption, providing long-term supply of food for the stray cats and dogs in the 1933 old field.
- Research
- Regarding the design process, a narrative story was implanted when space was not yet characterized. Starting from the walking track of a cat, the inner space and the outer space in the space are divided, and the basic functions in the living state are divided by a circle. In such a space, there are doors, windows can ability to peep and observe the inside and outside. And in inside, there are living rooms, restaurants, kitchens, bathrooms, etc., which form the scene elements of life and form a bubble map.
- Inspiration
- Regarding the design process, a narrative story was implanted when space was not yet characterized. Starting from the walking track of a cat, the inner space and the outer space in the space are divided, and the basic functions in the living state are divided by a circle. There are doors, windows can ability to peep and observe the inside and outside. And in inside, there are living rooms, restaurants, kitchens, bathrooms, etc., which form the scene elements of life and form a bubble map.
- Project Duration
- 1933 Shanghai
- Operation Flow
- The whole project was initially thought to be shared by people and animals. Both of them live in the urban space, and they have their own interactive space and interactive space. The animal behavior is implanted into the space design, and in the premise, satisfy the function , through the simplest processing method to provide a platform to assist the pidan's brand and ideas.
- Team Members
- Case Designer
Eason Zhu Alex Lin
Design Team
Erhuan Chai Qianlan Lu Guanhang Jiang - Image Credits
- Fununit Design & Zheng Shi
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