W Plus Salon de coiffure by Millton Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Fer in Design d'Intérieur Competition Category.

FerIntérieur· 2021

W Plus Salon de coiffure

by Millton Yu

Client: M. INTERIOR DESIGN Co., LTD

A' Design Award de Fer Winner in Intérieur Category

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The Design

About W Plus Salon de coiffure

W Plus est un salon de coiffure situé dans une ruelle résidentielle du district est de Taipei, à Taïwan. L'intérieur s'organise en trois strates progressives, inspirées du concept de jardin-laboratoire. Un mur-rideau vitré toute hauteur ouvre le salon sur l'extérieur, tandis qu'une plateforme en béton à l'entrée accueille un jardin végétalisé intérieur. Une claustra en ciment percée d'orifices circulaires divise les espaces tout en préservant la profondeur du regard. Un sol gris, un plan de travail en acier inoxydable et des matériaux recyclés confèrent à ces 196 mètres carrés une tonalité froide. Le lieu se prête également aux expositions, aux conférences et aux événements.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Fer

W Plus Salon de coiffure est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Fer, une reconnaissance prestigieuse décernée à de bons designs qui répondent aux exigences professionnelles et industrielles attendues de créations bien conçues. Les lauréats Fer démontrent la grande compétence, la haute spécialisation, la compréhension experte et la capacité créative de leurs créateurs. W Plus Salon de coiffure est censé être une création très estimée, admirée et chérie, pratique et innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Fer intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'industrie et présente des caractéristiques techniques compétentes associées à un savoir-faire et à du talent. W Plus Salon de coiffure est respecté pour sa rigueur et est conçu pour apporter des améliorations de la qualité de vie qui contribuent à faire du monde un monde meilleur.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: W Plus Salon is hidden in a residential alley in the east district of Taipei. With Lab Garden as their design concept, three progressive layers of areas are planned to express spatial appeals, furnishing a sophisticated indoor experience of lavishness.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project is 196 square meter.
Tags: Hair Salon, Commercial, Interior Design, Space, W Plus
Production Technology: A floor-to-ceiling glass curtain is used for the exterior walls of the salon. The interactions between indoor and outdoor sceneries create a broad, boundless view. When people walk into the entrance, they are greeted with an indoor green garden on a concrete platform. The concrete platform hides the cultivating sight with a sense of natural penetration. There is also a cement wall screen serving as a room divider, and that wall is filled with round holes, creating a penetrating and enticing view through the holes.
Design Challenge: The experimental spatial concept conveys the philosophy of the client, W Plus Salon, which is to make the space continuously improve, and to prompt the borders of different fields to vanish and then stimulate the new possibility.
Research: Everything in the entire space spreads a slightly cool color, with the flooring and the concrete platform having a consistent grey and rough texture, the reception counter and stainless steel work-surface with a cold grey tone, echoing the cold white lighting and the geometric mirror on the wall. The floating plant area scattered at the outdoor balcony is paved with abandoned cement pipes, sand, and gravel, while indoor materials are mostly made of recycled and renewed products.
Inspiration: Haircut is a homonym of subtraction in Mandarin, and this brings out the design concept for this project- subtracting what is unnecessary to give a new look with a beautiful addition relationship. The W Plus Salon space emphasizes the evolution from subtraction to addition, fully elucidating its new brands spirit after its nine years in brewing.
Project Duration: The project finished in June 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: There is no obvious boundary in the space; however, each area is individual but connective harmoniously at the same time, presenting a conceptual experimental space. The space is not only for hair salon, but for exhibition, presentation, party, lecture, or anything that can take place in it.
Team Members: Designer: Millton Yu
Image Credits: Image #1-5: Photographer Alvic Han, W Plus, 2020.