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Starvault

Wynk Collaborative

SAVE SUBMISSION
Bronze
Central lobby space with landscape planter and simulated skylight on the ceiling. - Jovian Lim
View of central lobby looking towards the entrance. door. - Jovian Lim
Simulated skylight  on the ceiling - Jovian Lim
Central lobby space with landscape planter and simulated skylight on the ceiling. - Jovian Lim

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JURY VOTES
Single-Brand Store
5.56
5.87
6.60
5.42
5.86
Güray Oskay
Güray Oskay Director of Architectural Design at ATÖLYE
8
7.5
6
5.5
6.75
Miriam Zuurbier
Miriam Zuurbier Associate Partner and Creative Director at TANK
8
7
7
6.5
7.13
Christophe Penasse
Christophe Penasse Cofounder at Masquespacio
6.15
6.25
6.85
5.95
6.3
Mijail Gutierrez
Mijail Gutierrez Principal and Design Director at Perkins and Will
8
7
7
6
7
Haijie Hu
Haijie Hu Cofounder and Creative Director at VAVE Studio
7.5
7
7.5
7
7.25
Madhubala Ayyamperumal
Madhubala Ayyamperumal Design Experience Leader at Gensler
Futuristic design with an interacti...
7.67
7.67
7.99
5.75
7.27
Geoffrey Timmer
Geoffrey Timmer Creative director at Colliers
6.7
7.2
7.2
6.3
6.85
Hongchao Wang
Hongchao Wang Creative Director and Cofounder at Benwu Studio
6.35
6.43
7.17
6.35
6.58
Elliot March
Elliot March Cofounder at MAWD
5.67
6.16
6.07
6.07
5.99
Kamna Malik
Kamna Malik Design Curator & Content Strategist at Kamna Malik
6.5
6.5
7
6
6.5
Rosha Ehsan
Rosha Ehsan Head of Design at Gastronomica Middle East
Exceptional Concept. The proposed d...
8.07
7.37
6.93
5.87
7.06
Dan Wang
Dan Wang Cofounder and CEO at Prominence Consulting Group and PLUTO
6.58
7.96
5
6.66
6.55
Client
Starvault
Floor area
90 ㎡
Completion
2023
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The brief for the project was to create an a space for an automatic safe deposit box service that is accessible to customers 24hours a day. Located in an existing industrial space with no windows of around 90sqm in size, the space was to include a vault, 2 viewing rooms where customers can access their safe deposit box, an office for in-person customer on-boarding and servicing, and an entrance and lobby sequence that would bring customers from the outside to the various parts of the space

The intention of the design was to have the space project a sense of silent strength and resilient security, but also to have a sense of expectedness, within its windowless location in an industrial building, through a play of light, and to inject a sense of journey and poetry into a location and function that would typically be sterile and transactional. We built the concept of the space around the idea of a cavern, from which the various components of the space are planned around.

Spatially, the journey begins at the entrance, leading down a corridor rendered in a grey textured plaster. Light filters down from a recessed simulated skylight at a corner, a hint of what lies ahead.

The journey continues down the path through a security vestibule, slowly revealing the main space within the project, a tall cavernous lobby. In this central cavernous lobby, the space tapers up towards a central light source, simulating daylight filtering down from the top. The walls of the space are finished in a granite tile, to create a sense of solidity, but given a sense of scale and verticality through the size and pattern of the tile lay. Below the “skylight” a landscaped planter anchors the space, providing a poetic counterpoint to the strength of the walls, softening the space. Through this central cavern, a customer will be able to head towards the viewing rooms to access their personal safe deposit box through the automated system.

The non-public or staffed spaces are accessed through concealed doors, clad in the same granite tiles that are used for the wall. Within the viewing rooms and the meeting room, the mood is warmer with a main palette of wood with brass accents. The user is free to linger with the central cavern for as long to take in the contemplative mood of the space.