W Plus 헤어살롱 by Millton Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 철상 in 인테리어 공간 및 전시 디자인 Competition Category.

철인테리어· 2021

W Plus 헤어살롱

by Millton Yu

Client: M. INTERIOR DESIGN Co., LTD

A' Design Award 철상 Winner in 인테리어 Category

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The Design

About W Plus 헤어살롱

W Plus는 대만 타이베이 동구의 주택가 골목에 자리한 헤어살롱이다. 실험실 정원(laboratory garden) 개념을 바탕으로 실내는 점층적인 세 개의 층위로 구성되었다. 천장부터 바닥까지 이어지는 통유리 커튼월이 살롱을 외부로 개방하며, 입구의 콘크리트 플랫폼에는 실내 그린 가든이 조성되어 있다. 원형 구멍이 가득한 시멘트 스크린은 공간을 분할하면서도 시야는 열어 둔다. 회색 바닥재, 스테인리스 스틸 작업대, 재활용 소재는 196제곱미터의 공간에 차분하고 쿨한 톤을 부여한다. 이 공간은 전시, 강연, 이벤트 개최에도 적합하다.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 철상

W Plus 헤어살롱, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 철상 수상작으로, 잘 디자인된 창작물에 기대되는 전문적·산업적 요건을 충족하는 좋은 디자인에 수여되는 권위 있는 인정입니다. 철상 수상작은 창작자의 뛰어난 기술, 높은 전문성, 전문가다운 이해, 창의적 역량을 보여 줍니다. W Plus 헤어살롱, 이 작품은 높이 평가받고 감탄과 사랑을 받는 창작물로서 실용적이고 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 철상 수상 디자인은 업계 모범 사례를 통합하며 노하우와 재능으로 연결된 유능한 기술적 특성을 갖추고 있습니다. W Plus 헤어살롱, 이 작품은 철저함으로 존중받으며 삶의 질을 개선하여 세상을 더 나은 곳으로 만들도록 디자인되었습니다.

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.