I Do Emergent Arts 零售空间 by AntiStatics Architecture is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 金奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.
金室内· 2022
I Do Emergent Arts 零售空间
Client: I Do (Hiersun Group)
A' Design Award 金奖 Winner in 室内 Category
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About I Do Emergent Arts 零售空间
位于中国武汉的 I Do 艺术家商店融合了独特的空间和雕塑元素，创造了极具表现力、诱人且鼓舞人心的用户体验。在空间的中心，一座9m高的巨大钢制雕塑从立面突出，从一楼空间升起，出现在二楼。具有象征意义的是，一比一比例的大象和人物代表着智慧、力量和团结，作为零售空间参观者所体现的关系的投影。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 金奖
I Do Emergent Arts 零售空间是 A' Design Award 金奖得主，这是授予一流、绝妙而杰出设计的极为崇高的认可。金奖得主是极具创新、极富远见且璀璨夺目的创作，反映出其设计师的天才、智慧与才干。预计I Do Emergent Arts 零售空间将成为一项备受赞誉、引领潮流、气势恢宏的发明，带来前所未有的价值。这件赢得 A' Design Award 金奖的设计是一个壮观而受人敬重的项目，极大地造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。I Do Emergent Arts 零售空间激起强烈的渴望，唤起激情，鼓励创造力，令我们着迷。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The I Do artist store in Wuhan, China blends uniquely spatial and sculptural elements to create a highly expressive, enticing and inspiring user experience. At the center of the space, and protruding through the façade, a massive 9m steel sculpture rises from the first floor space and emerges on the second floor.
Symbolically, the one to one scale elephant and figures represent the wisdom, strength and unity as a projection of the relationships which can be embodied by those visitors to the retail space. The sculpture is experienced through a variety of spatial relationships, as an iconic beacon within the larger outdoor public space, as a grandiose figure in the entry way, and intimately face to face with the figures on the second floor.
Custom fabricated displays and furniture are faceted features which stand in contrast to the curvilinear strip form of the walls and ceilings. Expressive of the discovery and extraction process, the geometric contrast in these elements creates a dialogue beyond the limitations of retail spaces. Presented as dichotomous elements yet metaphorically interdependent, the arrangement of these components of the space elevate the experience from retail to immersive artwork. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Retail Interiors: 16.4 x 14.7 m footprint, Ceiling Heights 5.7m, 4.9m
Sculptural Installation 4.2m x 2.7m x 9m
Façade 14m x 15.4m
Laser Cut Artist Feature 2.5m x 4.4m - Tags
- Digital Fabrication, Artificial Intelligence, Immersive, Conceptual, Future,
- Production Technology
- Utilizing customized in-house computational tools in tandem with wax 3d printing and investment casting, the fabrication of the sculpture creates a sparse yet highly structural lattice inspired by both cellular biology and the atomic structure of diamonds.
Expressing processes of terraforming, the walls and façade were produced through CNC milling and casting of Gypsum and GRC.
Faceted displays and furniture are manufactured through digital models, automated production and manual fabrication. - Design Challenge
- This project overcomes previous limitations in the fabrication of complex steel forms. Using a streamlined work flow from artificial intelligence to 3d printing to assembly, we redefined what was possible for highly precise, structurally responsive design. Working closely with several different fabricators throughout the design phase we were able to collaboratively develop novel method of streamlined workflow between AI and fabrication.
- Research
- This project involved a rigorous and intensive process of research into emerging capabilities of digital fabrication.
Our goal was to find a new methodology for the production of highly-precise and structurally and materially efficient bio-inspired geometries using recyclable and proven materials such as stainless steel.
Working closely with several fabricators and 3d printing innovators, we developed a process for the production of large-scale, bio-inspired cellular lattices. The design of the large sculptural piece for the store as a proof of concept for the future potential of architectural structural elements. The development algorithmically generated geometries for the execution of such a complex structure at this scale, presents a new paradigm for the use of structural materials like steel at an architectural scale. The algorithms written and developed by our design team use physics simulation engines to aid in the determination of bio-inspired geometries. These tools create a self-adapting localized densities of the lattice within the structure as determined by the global loading conditions of the form. This ensured that the 9 ton sculpture would be structurally sound, while also presenting a concept for the design of architectural structures which can use less material while creating more strength.
The precise means of fabrication involves the determination of a valence 4 network of members which defines the shell of the form as well as the interior lattice. Building upon recent developments into macro-cellular solids, this project presents a system which is cleanly adaptable to solids in which loading conditions may vary within the volume, and increases or decreases density based need, further saving material. Reinventing the conventional process of lost wax casting for steel, the elements are 3d printing in wax and cast with stainless steel. This process was developed and utilized after less successful experiments using wire arc additive manufacturing proved overly limiting in terms of precision and execution of desired geometries.
This work took on difficult scientific and engineering challenges as a means of opening new potentials for the conceptual and architectural presentation of space and form as metaphor. - Inspiration
- Responding to the program of the jewelry retail space, this project draws upon many of the symbolically referential elements related to the extraction, manufacture and distribution of rare stones. The attenuation of the walls, the sculpture and the geometric systems employed throughout the design serve to subtly draw attention to the larger ecosystem of this global economy. While we choose not to publicly or explicitly express our position as individuals, our intent is to promote awareness around the larger network inherent to the retail industry by presenting elements related to the production of goods. Beyond the physical artifacts within the space, the precise manifestation of these features are informed by processes incorporated in the production of goods. Lost-wax casting, carving and faceting are all presented as prominent design elements, while the translation of scale and utility suggest redefined meaning.
- Project Duration
- The project began in 2018, designed in Beijing, Fabricated in Wuhan and Shanghai and installed in Wuhan in 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Beyond the conceptual determinants of the design this project challenges the potential of architecture as a communicative language utilizing iconography, referential geometries and fabrication processes to express ideas through space. The work pushes the boundaries of digital to physical fabrication methods and scales resulting in a new means of experiencing retail space. Developing new workflows for fabrication, the project creates novel environments better capable of expression.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to AntiStatics Architecture and I Do (Hiersun Group)
- Team Members
- Lead Architects: Mo Zheng + Martin Miller
Artist Collaborator: Yue Minjun
Design Team: Yasser Hafizs, Theodorius ED Santoso, Christopher Beckett, Annie Liu, Demi Chang, Arthur Yang, Frank Feng
Fabricator: Yueben Shanghai - Image Credits
- Copyrights belong to AntiStatics Architecture and I Do (Hiersun Group)
Photography belong to AntiStatics Architecture and Dachou Wang
Video Credits: Mo Zheng, AntiStatics, 2021
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