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Bananain Concept Store Hangzhou

Some Thoughts Spatial Design and Research Office

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Total
JURY VOTES
Single-Brand Store
7.51
6.99
7.51
5.96
6.99
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann Director of Interior Architecture at Snøhetta
The contrast between the purity of...
8.75
9
9
7.5
8.56
Deepak Jawahar
Deepak Jawahar Cofounder at The Architecture Story
Cohesive use of materials, an inter...
6.9
7.5
7.5
6.5
7.1
Dennis Vlietinck
Dennis Vlietinck Head of Design at Wink
8
7.5
8
7
7.63
Nicolas Delefosse
Nicolas Delefosse Founder and Creative Director at NDDO
An immersive design, that...
7
7
8
5
6.75
Giovanni Zaccariello
Giovanni Zaccariello SVP Global Visual Experience  at Coach
Bold statement and gesture + out of...
8
8
8
7
7.75
Farid Ziani
Farid Ziani Partner Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB
8
7
8
6
7.25
Gilbert Khalil
Gilbert Khalil Director of Design and Technical Services at Sunset Hospitality Group
8
8
8
5
7.25
Dirk Osinga
Dirk Osinga Founder at STUDIOSINGA
Looks like a dystopian machine scie...
8
5
8
5
6.5
Lucy Bagshaw
Lucy Bagshaw Project Director at Tp Bennett
7
7
6
5
6.25
Jocelyne Sacre
Jocelyne Sacre Design Strategist at Consultant
Strong attention to detail and I ap...
6.5
6.5
5.5
5.5
6
Asif Din
Asif Din Sustainability Director at Perkins&Will
7
7
7
5
6.5
Liqun Lin
Liqun Lin Executive Director at Xiamen Wenqu Decoration Design
8
7
8
6
7.25
Cathy Figueiredo
Cathy Figueiredo Cofounder at Wanna
An immersive user experience achiev...
8.5
7
9
6.5
7.75
Lisa Adams
Lisa Adams Director of CitizenHKS & Sustainable Design Leader at HKS
Strong story of how forms inspired...
7
5
6
4
5.5
Baoyu Tian
Baoyu Tian General Manager at Foshan Shengtianjia Lighting Equipment
visual impact...
7
7
7.5
7
7.13
Klein Dai
Klein Dai CEO at Algebraist Brand Management
8
7
7
7
7.25
Bangsheng Yang
Bangsheng Yang Founder at Yang & Associates Group
7
7.25
7.25
5.75
6.81
Sontaya Bluangtook
Sontaya Bluangtook Associate Design Director at UNStudio
The lighting and material contrast...
8
7
8.5
7
7.63
Woody Yao
Woody Yao Director at Zaha Hadid Design
6
6
6.5
5.5
6
Client
Bananain
Floor area
180 ㎡
Completion
2022

The structure and constraints of the real world are like a grid without coordinates, representing the uncertainty in a certain order. Somewhere within a complex state, the interaction between culture, society, technology and economy is impact each other to break up certain state of the grid.

In exploring the design for Bananain Concept Store Hangzhou, Some Thoughts draws inspirations from the geometric elements in the coordinate system that we aspire to combine into the spatial design. Vertical is the most straightforward expression of gravity, while bending is a poetic depiction of gravity. As applied in the interior, the cantilevers hanging over the columns have reinforced this structural form, while the abstract and curved forms and units were created by researching unconventional shapes and materials, which generated the dramatic spatial experience by the structural tension embedded in every sectional set.

The cambered surface is supported by a certain structure to form a cantilever in the space, introducing a new interaction between the organic elements and machinery. In the process of transcending utilitarianism or material texture, organic elements and mechanical spontaneously interfere with their composition of boundaries, enabling the public to meander around with an experience of continuous expansion and transition. One’s experience gets more immersive through the expansion of materials, density of the space and shapes of each unit, punctuating the influence of cantilever structure for this spatial order. Black and white marble poured into the grid matrix, composed of aluminum grids like waves, and the collision between random and order appeared in the form of one’s experience.

When natural materials are destroyed, polished and reconstructed, the remnants of nature help us to perceive the existence of organic elements in the space. In the design of Bananain Concept Store Hangzhou, Some Thoughts redefined "nature" by means of collision between marble and metal materials, making organic elements encompass a sense of "process aesthetics" between structure and deconstruction.