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storefront - UOHO
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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Single-Brand Store
6.30
6.03
6.87
5.25
6.11
Filip Milovanovic
Filip Milovanovic Design Director at Yabu Pushelberg
This project's approach states it i...
5
5
7
4
5.25
Ludmila Machado
Ludmila Machado Founder at Aurora Design
5.4
4
5
4
4.6
Mark Timo
Mark Timo Founder at De Interieur Club
7
7
8
5
6.75
Apoorva Shroff
Apoorva Shroff Founder at lyth Design
6.1
6.74
6.9
5.94
6.42
Drew Gilbert
Drew Gilbert Design Manager at OBMI
6.42
6.34
6.9
6.34
6.5
Luca Macri
Luca Macri Partner at Lamatilde
5
5.5
6
4
5.13
Liyu Xue
Liyu Xue Founder and Creative Director at Staay
8
7
8
5
7
Weiping Lin
Weiping Lin Founder and Design Director at Lin Wei Ping Design Consulting
6
6
7
5
6
Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith Associate Designer at M Moser Associates
7
7
7
5
6.5
Alessandro Ranaldi
Alessandro Ranaldi Head of Workplace Consultancy at Foster and Partners
5.5
6
7
5
5.88
Juan Alberto Andrade
Juan Alberto Andrade Founder at Juan Alberto Andrade
7.66
7.27
8.43
7.14
7.63
Yuan Jiang
Yuan Jiang Cofounder at Soda
7
5
7
5
6
Llisa Demetrios
Llisa Demetrios Chief Curator at The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity
6
5
7
5
5.75
Terry Xu
Terry Xu Chief Designer at Masanori Design Studio
6
6.5
6
6
6.13
Yuanman Huang
Yuanman Huang Cofounder and Creative Designer at GS Design
6.4
6.09
5.88
6.3
6.17
Client
Urban Revivo
Floor area
2000 ㎡
Completion
2022
Accessories

Along with the maturity of modern commerce, the design of retail and commercial spaces services more than visual aesthetics, but also bears the responsibility as an identity medium. The designer aims to elevate the product by emphasizing the architectural space through highlighting the brand impression with the charm of the space itself to retain visitors, and achieve deeper potential business interaction.

The concept of the store is inspired by natural sequential ordered structure, using Stonehenge as a visual representation. The designer constructs a modern new order with this unique style that extends the relationship between the environment and the place atmosphere. This allows the space itself to generate a sense of life through the inspiration of culture and history, and eventually leading consumers to freely explore between natural structure of the space, whilst appreciating the brand's unique pioneer aesthetics.

The designer clads the architectural surfaces of each order element, which separates the functional layer from the decorative layer. The two floors of the store are set with a mix of warm color palette that reflects urban temperature of the City of Chengdu. The scattered stone formations, with rough and strong texture, injects a touch of primitive natural charm into the space. The clash between materials and colors forms a holistic and vibrant visual effect, thus creating an interesting sensory experience.

The overall design of the store closely integrates the building and the environment, focuses on the transparency of the space with the full glass exterior façade. The order of the pillars that penetrates through the upper and lower floors, forms a well pattered sequence for the exterior façade. The transparency of the glass façade interacts with the gap spaces created by the juxtaposed pillars to establish a constant orchestrated dialogue between the public visitors and in-store retailers.