All Design Studio (ADS): Reconstruct a Contemporary Lifestyle Aesthetics Space Through a Balanced Approach

This project is a retail premise designed by All Design Studio (“ADS”) for the bálancing, a pioneer fashion boutique brand in China. ADS decided to counteract the chaos of the existing space with a “balanced dynamic”.

ADS analyzed the design characteristics of the brand’s previous stores and found that a sense of balance is reflected in users’ perception of the comfortable environment. When ADS set out to conceive the new space, the team was faced with a variety of irregular shapes such as triangle, semicircle and trapezoid scattered throughout the 372㎡disorderly space.

Based on the brand’s aesthetics of balance and the characteristics of the site, ADS drew inspiration from the constructivism of Wassily Kandinsky, a pioneer of abstract art. The design team moved away from the three-dimensional sense of space and returned to the two-dimensional way, to reconstruct the balance of space in the imbalance.

The design team transformed Kandinsky’s constructivist concept. The points, lines, and planes leap into space, giving geometry a three-dimensional expression. Whether it is the triangular window display area, the central display island, the three-part cashier counter, or the circular grid ceiling, these geometric elements may seem disorderly and chaotic, but in fact restrain each other, displaying rational functionality while giving the space a sense of inner unity and order.