291 Photographs’ is the space about select shop which is filled with camera and photograph. There are various program spaces - photo-selling, photo-display, book-selling, community, and camera-display zone. We thought about the terms of photograph as “captured moment of the past by lighting”. We identify three concepts that explain different kinds of spaces which have various moments and stories.

The first one is “viewfinder”. Photographer looks through to compose the picture from this. Depend on the user, the focal point can be changed directly, and this principle improves the identity of space. To explain the process of set up focus, we overlapped transparent and translucence material in the space. It could make different spatial moment during the overlapping materials and colors.

The second one is “frame”. It captures object, and represents the past. We thought about past is dim and vague, so we want to express this kind of feeling visually. We thought that past is memory which was built, so we give shape to past. The several layers of design element represent how we read the past. The last is “the flow of time” which include past, present, and future. As time goes by, we acquire experience, contacting with different people. In these various programming spaces, visitors can share their experience and thought, and it will bring a strong community. Finally, these three metaphors could be central idea or concept of 291 Photographs.