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The Garden Above

Atelier Pistache Ganache

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Client
conceito ê
Floor area
120.00 ㎡
Completion
2019

The design process was an exercise of thinking how the shoppingmall would be in 100 years from now, possibly becoming abandoned itself. The idea of a ruin built on the present was pertinent to us.

The garden, central element of the store, was inspired by the concept "jardin en mouvement" from the French gardener Gilles Clement, in which most of the chosen species are pioneer plants, the first to colonize previously disrupted or damaged ecosystems. We believe the analogy of the shopping mall as a ruin built in the present and the nature taking back its space is key to understanding the concept.

The store is composed of two areas: the main room where the fashion items are displayed and a side area where the fitting rooms and home decor items are. The central chamber walls are covered with 10,345 light pink tiles, 10% of those are vintage reused tiles. This mosaic of different tiles was inspired by the artwork “Saunas e Banhos” from the Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão. The workers were free to set the tiles as they wanted. Some guidelines were created to help them to imagine the layout such as :“imagine that a pipe was broken and you have to replace the tiles”, or “imagine you had to fix a tilled wall, but the tile was out of stock”; the result is a combination of the tiles worker’s imagination and the meticulous work of the contractor.