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Vicutu Concept 플래그십 스토어 by Antistatics Architecture

Vicutu Concept 플래그십 스토어 by Antistatics Architecture is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 은상 in 건축, 건물 및 구조물 디자인 Competition Category.


은건축· 2023

Vicutu Concept 플래그십 스토어

by Antistatics Architecture

Client: Vicutu

A' Design Award 은상 Winner in 건축 Category

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The Design

About Vicutu Concept 플래그십 스토어

비쿠투 콘셉트(Vicutu Concept)는 베이징 다싱구에 세워진 패션 브랜드의 플래그십 스토어이다. 매장은 2개 층으로 구성되며 총면적은 1,680제곱미터이다. 파사드에는 알루미늄 판재를 굽히고 휘어 이중 곡면 형태로 성형하여 제작한 대규모 입체 알루미늄 위빙 시스템이 적용되었다. 이 직조 형태는 원단의 짜임과 의복의 재단을 상징한다. 내부에서는 질감이 살아 있는 시멘트 벽면, 디스플레이 카운터, 그리고 숨겨진 광원이 연속적인 조각적 공간을 만들어낸다. 다이아그리드 패턴은 바닥과 벽면, 좌대에 걸쳐 반복적으로 나타난다.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 은상

Vicutu Concept 플래그십 스토어, 이 작품은 A' Design Award 은상 수상작으로, 최상급이며 아름답고 인상적인 디자인에 수여되는 비범하게 권위 있는 인정입니다. 은상 수상작은 대단히 뛰어나고 매우 창의적인 작품으로, 디자이너의 탁월한 전문 지식, 재능, 통찰력을 보여 줍니다. Vicutu Concept 플래그십 스토어, 이 작품은 훌륭한 대표작으로서 매우 전문적이고 깊이 있게 혁신적일 것으로 기대됩니다. 이 은상 수상 디자인은 예술, 과학, 디자인, 기술의 경계를 넓히는 데 이바지하는 주목할 만하고 찬사를 받는 발명품입니다. Vicutu Concept 플래그십 스토어, 이 작품은 모두가 부러워하는 창작물로서 욕망을 일깨우고 긍정적인 감정을 불러오며 경탄과 경이로움을 불러일으킵니다.

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

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