W Plus ヘアサロン by Millton Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in インテリア空間・展示デザイン Competition Category.

鉄インテリア· 2021

W Plus ヘアサロン

by Millton Yu

Client: M. INTERIOR DESIGN Co., LTD

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in インテリア Category

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The Design

About W Plus ヘアサロン

W Plusは、台湾・台北市東区の住宅街の路地に位置するヘアサロンである。インテリアは実験室のような庭というコンセプトに基づき、три段階的な3つのレイヤーで構成されている。床から天井まで届くガラスカーテンウォールがサロンを外部へと開き、エントランスのコンクリート製プラットフォームには屋内のグリーンガーデンが設えられている。丸い穴が連続するセメントスクリーンが各室を仕切りつつ、視線の抜けを確保している。グレーの床材、ステンレススチールの作業カウンター、リサイクル素材が、196平方メートルの空間にクールな色調を与えている。この空間は展示会や講演、イベントの会場としても活用できる。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

W Plus ヘアサロンは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。W Plus ヘアサロンは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。W Plus ヘアサロンは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

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.