Vicutu Concept Siop Flaenllaw by Antistatics Architecture

Vicutu Concept Siop Flaenllaw by Antistatics Architecture is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Gwobr Arian A' Design Award in Pensaernïaeth Competition Category.

ArianPensaernïaeth· 2023

Vicutu Concept Siop Flaenllaw

by Antistatics Architecture

Client: Vicutu

Gwobr Arian A' Design Award Winner in Pensaernïaeth Category

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The Design

About Vicutu Concept Siop Flaenllaw

Mae Vicutu Concept yn siop flaenllaw ar gyfer brand ffasiwn, a adeiladwyd yn Ardal Daxing yn Beijing. Mae gan y siop ddau lawr a chyfanswm arwynebedd o 1680 metr sgwâr. Mae'r ffasâd yn defnyddio system wehyddu alwminiwm tri dimensiwn ar raddfa fawr, a gynhyrchwyd trwy blygu ac ystwytho dalennau alwminiwm yn siapiau crwm dwbl. Mae'r ffurf wehyddol yn cyfeirio at wehyddu ffabrig a theilwra dillad. Y tu mewn, mae waliau sment gweadog, cownteri arddangos a ffynonellau golau cudd yn creu gofod cerfluniol di-dor. Mae patrwm diagrid yn cael ei ailadrodd ar loriau, waliau a phedestalau.

The Recognition

About the Gwobr Arian A' Design Award

Mae Vicutu Concept Siop Flaenllaw yn enillydd Gwobr Arian A' Design Award, cydnabyddiaeth hynod fawreddog a roddir i ddyluniadau o'r radd uchaf, hardd a thrawiadol. Mae enillwyr Arian yn weithiau tra disglair a hynod greadigol sydd yn darlunio arbenigedd, dawn a chraffter rhagorol eu dylunwyr. Disgwylir i Vicutu Concept Siop Flaenllaw fod yn waith gwych ac esiampl, yn nodedig o broffesiynol ac yn ddwfn arloesol. Mae'r dyluniad buddugol hwn o Wobr Arian A' Design Award yn ddyfais hynod nodedig a edmygir sydd yn elwa ac yn symud ymlaen ffiniau celf, gwyddoniaeth, dylunio a thechnoleg. Mae Vicutu Concept Siop Flaenllaw yn greadigaeth y cenfigennir wrthi yn eang, sydd yn deffro dyheadau, yn cyflwyno teimladau cadarnhaol ac yn cynnau rhyfeddod a syndod.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The Concept Store for the VICUTU Fashion Brand, architecturalizes and spatializes the core elements of the brand through the exploration, manipulation, and reinvention. The clothing attributes of the fashion industry are reinterpreted through futuristic vision and exquisite architectural language, providing customers with a unique experience while remaining true to the expression of the fabric, tailoring and quality of the fashion. Similar to the nature of tailoring flat fabrics into three dimensional garments, the construction of the façade comes from an innovative fabrication process of bending and flexing aluminum sheets into doubly curved geometries.
Dimensions & Packaging: Similar to the nature of tailoring flat fabrics into three dimensional garments, the construction of the façade comes from an innovative fabrication process of bending and flexing aluminum sheets into doubly curved geometries.
Tags: digital fabrication, diagrid, fashion, growth, futuristic, innovation, weaving, experience
Production Technology: For the first time in the architectural industry, a large-scale three-dimensional aluminum woven system is adopted, which reflects the production process and fabric properties of men's clothing on the facade. Textured artistic cement wall reflects a classic, low-key, and sculptural environment. All walls and display counters "grow" from the ground and the ceiling, at the meantime the effect of continuity and growth is enhanced through hidden light sources.
Design Challenge: The challenge of the work is utilizing the different construction tectonics in one project from exterior to interior. Also, how to apply a continuous curvilinear geometry into a large space, though scale changes, from façade panels to the interior wall and ceiling, to the display podium, considering both traditional way of construction through standard arches and lines, and inserting customized panels from digital fabrication.
Research: The design concept is extracted from the "V" shape of the VICUTU brand and integrated into the flexible bending to form an ecological diagrid system from the weaving natural of the fashion fabric. The continuous language exhibits throughout the architectural facade to the interior special language and details.

Within the interior of the concept store, the whole space language simulates the mountains, waterfalls, deserts, and celestial phenomena in the nature, creating an immersive place of endless rebirth and nirvana, reflecting the perseverance of mankind. Textured artistic cement wall reflects a classic, low-key, and sculptural environment.
Inspiration: The fabric develops from a weave, the intertwining of threads into a larger garment, within the façade this language is carried out at a massive architectural scale, presenting visitors with a novel added skin to the building. Similar to the nature of tailoring flat fabrics into three dimensional garments, the construction of the façade comes from an innovative fabrication process of bending and flexing aluminum sheets into doubly curved geometries.
Project Duration: Within three years of design and construction (2020-2022), the brand new VICUTU concept store is appeared at the promenade street front of Shangde Center in Daxing District, Beijing. It is divided into upper and lower floors, with a total building area of 1680 square meters, including three brands Gornia, Vicutu Blue Label and Vicutu Red Label. The design concept is extracted from the "V" shape of the VICUTU brand and integrated into the flexible weaving to form an ecological diagrid system from the stitching natural of the fashion fabric. The continuous language exhibits throughout the architectural facade to the interior special language and details.
Operation Flow: Throughout the store, the intertwined diagrid language creates a unity through its varied expression and implementation as detail. Embedded as relief within pedestals, as graphic within floor patterns and as a three-dimensional lattice in the interior façade, this geometry adds an additional layer of reference to the woven nature of fashion, both literally as a means of producing fabric, but additionally as an expression of the client, as a leader in the industry, who has become interwoven position within the artistic development of Chinese fashion.
The project serves as a deep and multifaceted showpiece for the client to exhibit not only the latest designs of the brand, but also as a means of illustrating the potentials for innovation within unique collaborations with other industries like architecture. The space creates deeply experiential engagement with the visitor through the fine attention to detail across the scale of the project. Promoting the physical experience of space and fashion, the space offers a retreat from the digital world.
Patents: Copyrights belong to AntiStatics Architecture, 2023.
Team Members: Architect’ Firm: AntiStatics Architecture
Lead Architects: Mo Zheng, Martin Miller
Project Architect: Christopher Beckett
Team: Yasser Hafizs, Luke Theodorius E.D.Santoso, Frank Feng, Annie Liu, Dhaga Aman, Wenlin Bai, Yue Xi, Boyan Zhang, Arthur Yang, Yong Li, Weidong Zhang, Zhiming Wu, Changyong Guo, Jingwei Zhang
Client：VICUTU (Beijing Gelei Fashion Technology Co., Ltd)
Main Contractor: Beijing Chenfeng Polang Architectural Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd.
GRG Fabricator: E-grow Shanghai
Image Credits: Photo credits: UK Studio, AntiStatics
Video Credits: AntiStatics