Shop Entrance in New York
documentation p. 1202 - 1204Architect Future Systems |
Drafts
Horizontal section through facade 1:20
Isometric (not to scale)
Plan 1:250
Section 1:100
Section through entrance door 1:20
Vertical section through facade 1:20
Horizontal section through facade 1:20
Isometric (not to scale)
Plan 1:250
Section 1:100
Section through entrance door 1:20
Vertical section through facade 1:20
Commes des Garçons required a new artistic concept that would meet the needs of its fashion shops in various situations. The dilapidated 19th-century brick façade of the present premises, with its signboards and fire-escape ladder, was left unchanged. Beyond the existing entrance archway, an asymmetric aluminium tube was inserted that leads from the bustling life of the city into a calm interior. Neither inside nor outside, the tube forms an intermediate space that bridges the gap between the existing building and the sophisticated world within. The glass entrance door retains a sense of visual permeability. The self-supporting tube consists of five three-dimensionally curved sheet-metal elements made in a shipyard in England.
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