Vicutu Concept Flagship Store by Antistatics Architecture

Argento Architettura · 2023

Vicutu Concept Flagship Store

by Antistatics Architecture

A' Design Award d'Argento 2023 in Architettura
CLIENT: Vicutu
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About Vicutu Concept Flagship Store

Vicutu Concept è il flagship store di un marchio di moda, realizzato nel distretto di Daxing a Pechino. Il negozio si sviluppa su due piani per una superficie complessiva di 1680 metri quadrati. La facciata impiega un sistema di intreccio tridimensionale in alluminio di grandi dimensioni, ottenuto piegando e flettendo lastre di alluminio fino a conferire loro forme a doppia curvatura. La trama intrecciata richiama la tessitura dei tessuti e il taglio sartoriale degli abiti. All'interno, pareti in cemento materico, banchi espositivi e sorgenti luminose nascoste danno vita a uno spazio scultoreo continuo. Un motivo a maglia diagonale si ripete su pavimenti, pareti e basamenti.

About the A' Design Award d'Argento

Vicutu Concept Flagship Store ha vinto l'A' Design Award d'Argento, un riconoscimento enormemente prestigioso conferito a design di fascia alta, splendidi e impressionanti. I vincitori d'Argento sono opere tremendamente brillanti ed estremamente creative che illustrano l'eccezionale competenza, il talento e l'acume dei loro designer. Ci si aspetta che Vicutu Concept Flagship Store sia un'opera meravigliosa, una vetrina di eccellenza, notevolmente professionale e profondamente innovativa. Questo design vincitore dell'A' Design Award d'Argento è un'invenzione molto notevole e ammirata che giova ai confini dell'arte, della scienza, del design e della tecnologia e li fa avanzare. Vicutu Concept Flagship Store è una creazione molto invidiata che evoca desideri, porta sentimenti positivi e accende meraviglia e stupore.

Press Kit

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.
Image Credits: Photo credits: UK Studio, AntiStatics
Video Credits: AntiStatics