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The Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi by Tadao Ando

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SND Fashion Store, Chongqing, China by 3GATTI | via

From the architect: When I started this retail project there was a simple and appealing idea of hanging everything from the ceiling – thus moving out of the way the furniture and items to be sold so that all the floor space could be free for customers to circulate. So using a software that simulates the physics of real materials, we imagined an elastic ceiling that was pulled down by the weight of these various objects.

The next step was to think about the technical equipment necessary for the store such as lighting, speakers, sprinklers, cameras, AC and ventilation so it was natural to think of this ceiling as a permeable surface. This was the origin of the ethereal white ceiling; an ephemeral support for ephemeral objects.

We provided the factory with a file of more than 10,000 different shapes of stripes to hang on the ceiling and thank goodness each piece was not hand crafted by the Chinese workers but was precision cut by machines in a super short time. We used a very thin white translucent fiberglass material because of its fire resistance and the good way it reacted to light reflection thus creating a ceiling landscape that would be a spectacular source of light, beauty and emptiness; perfect for every fashion victim.

Although the store is not very big the extension of the ceiling landscape is apparently endless thanks to mirror walls that disorient the visitors walking around these ethereal ceiling cavities.

Photography: Shen Qiang

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© peter eisenman - city of culture of galicia - santiago de compostela, spain - 1999

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Bicycle Icon Set by Arzu Sendag

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Glass panes form transparent labyrinth by Robert Morris

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Over-Polykatoikia: The Anti-Urban Machine By Charilaos Biskos

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Cunard Streamship Company Design by Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes

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"Sometimes it is very physical. If you continue with the same rhythm of lamps in and out, it becomes all one space. Don’t let yourself be influenced by the frontier of the door."

@Gustavo Avilés

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Things Come Apart by Todd McLellan