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Boutique Branà 1915 Altamura

Bettazzi+Percoco architetti

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JURY VOTES
Multi-Brand Store
4.62
5.92
4.77
5.08
5.1
Gregory Melitonov
Gregory Melitonov Partner at Taller KEN
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5
5
5
5
Cindy Jiang
Cindy Jiang Deputy general manager and principal architect at Yanlord Land Nanjing
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7
6
6
6.25
Melvyn Law
Melvyn Law Director / Principal Designer at Limelight atelier
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6
5
5
5.25
Hamish Guthrie
Hamish Guthrie Founder and Director at Hecker Guthrie
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6
6
5
5.5
Manuela Mannino
Manuela Mannino Architect at THDP
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6
4
4
4.75
Nina Sickenga
Nina Sickenga Founder at MOSS
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5
4
5
4.25
Natalie Badenduck
Natalie Badenduck Associate Professor at Mount Royal University
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7
4
5
5
Anna Gavrichkova
Anna Gavrichkova Founder at LEFT design
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6
5
5
5
Wen Hao
Wen Hao Founder and Chief Curator at Design Spring– Contemporary China Furniture Design Fair
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6
4
5
5
Ester Bruzkus
Ester Bruzkus Founder at Ester Bruzkus Architekten
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5
5
5
4.75
Justin Donnelly
Justin Donnelly Creative Director at Jumbo
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6
5
5
5.25
Golnar Roshan
Golnar Roshan Creative Partner at Rive Roshan
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6
5
5
5.25
Ken Hu
Ken Hu President/Principal Partner at CHENG CHUNG DESIGN (HK) LTD. CCD
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6
4
6
5
Client
Branà 1915
Floor area
318 ㎡
Completion
2020
Construction company
Flooring and Sanitary supplier
Lighting supplier

A commercial space that tries to open up to the city by becoming a square itself, an interior that becomes an ideal continuation of the urban space. To define this new urban interior, we started from the suggestion of Giorgio De Chirico‘s “Piazze d’Italia”, with the repeated arched wings that define and delimit the square. De Chirico believes that “the arched architectural structure is the metaphor of the eternal present, as an element that unites concreteness and abstraction, fullness and emptiness, interchange of interior and exterior, projection of light and shadow” (Baldacci 1997, p. 96). The arch structure realized in plasterboard becomes a founding element of the project; the central monolithic artefacts, like vestiges of a lost architecture, define the central space hiding four existing pillars. The side arcades accompany customers on an ideal walk through the imaginary square. Dynamic wings create a flexible space giving the customer the possibility to enjoy environments not as a scenographic backdrop, but as the continuation of the city that creeps inside the buildings. A new shopping experience that wants to be a tribute to sociality, sharing and meeting of the Italian squares. The whole space is characterized by white colour which, like a canvas, welcomes the clothing in their most sparkling scene. The only brushstrokes of colour are represented by a gold material surface that marks the inside of the central arches; on the side walls instead two different graphics on wallpaper, ad hoc designed, one tells the depth of the arches and the other a soft drapery, which makes the portals even more dynamic. The furnishing system represents a metaphysical space superbly revealed by the duo, cube and sphere, positioned in the center of the display system. The basement, which houses men’s fashion, is the protagonist of a less radical intervention than the ground floor, but which nonetheless renews its character. The large central pillar becomes the pivot around which the fashion carousel revolves with satin-finish steel hangers. The new design of the space includes a corner dedicated to the classic man, while the existing windows are rethought as large views on a luxuriant tropical garden. The wide windows look at an ethereal view of nature, as leading protagonist that will replant our towns in the urban reafforestation. To close this long project, in synergy with Branà Family, lover and taste of beauty, we have developed a lighting project, functional and suitable for the product, focused on: central islands, tables and the displaying system rails alongside the walls. The lighting system designs brushstrokes of rational light and indirect light, playing together for a real coupe de théâtre, avoiding diffused and flat lighting. The shop windows have also been renewed: tripartite window frame have been replaced by all-glass; the heavy doors that covered the existing façade have been replaced by two elegant anthracite grey metal panels framing the entrance. The main façade is scanned by steel pilaster that take up the pattern of the façade; at the top a light grey metal strip, hides a diffused light that illuminates the golden bottom recalling the interior. Two gilded wooden arches form the backdrop of the windows and dialogue with the third arch designed on the security metal door. The wooden arches are characterized by a Led strip of light that frames a herringbone metal mesh able to create a vibrant backcloth for the exposed products.