CANAL ST. 坚尼街买手店
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CANAL ST. 是一家引入自纽约市下城的精选商店。我们希望通过创建一个零售店面，将两座城市的生活方式融合在一起，将下城的生活方式带到上海。在纽约，你可以看到工业时代留下的痕迹与当代的前卫艺术、时尚和流行文化共存。这种包容性和多样性与上海产生了共鸣。不同的是，上海独特的气质建立在中国传统文化以及近一个世纪的租界经历之上。作为一座崛起的国际城市，上海更加年轻和充满活力。我们认为上海有些叛逆，但同时又精致。有趣的是，粗俗的部分被包裹在上海的精致之中。这种持续的张力使得这里的一切新事物都经过时间的打磨和沉淀。我们希望到访商店的人能够感受到并体验到这一点。
CANAL ST. 一楼的空间原本是建筑的楼梯，狭长而窄，位于整个空间的中间。因此，我们利用这一横向空间创造了一个具有纽约地铁车厢氛围的过渡空间。这个长而深的空间被分为两部分，来自纽约街头的餐车微缩模型也成为我们咖啡馆的基因。
井盖的格栅装饰、霓虹灯、建筑保留的钢结构、裸露的砖墙等都代表了下城的细节。虽然与纽约市的下城有所不同，但它传达了相同的气质。
在这个空间中，我们展示了几种不同规格的“盒子”，例如悬挂在楼梯上方的绿色玻璃盒、打破原有空间界限的木框结构盒、矩形绿色亚克力地面道具等。我们在整个空间中使用相同的元素，但在设计技巧上各有不同，以使其连贯统一。在照明方面，我们没有像通常零售中那样使用大量管灯作为主要光源，而是使用大面积的面板灯、灯带、波纹板等灯具，使室内光源均匀且柔和。舒适的光源可以显著增加人们的停留欲望。此外，所选材料的亲和力也能让人感到舒适。
作为商店展示的基础设计，我们不断思考如何以非凡而生动的方式表达空间，同时避免分散对产品的注意力。此外，材料是构建空间的基本元素，而空间则是容纳材料的容器。
因此，我们为城市中常规材料更换了另一个容器，以获得多样化的体验。CANAL ST. 本身带有来自街道和文化的街头文化。现在，我们希望通过我们的设计在室内空间中展示街头文化。
在空间中，我们通过拼接、重叠、碰撞和重新组合的方式利用了多种不同质感的材料。然而，大多数材料的选择是基于空间所要传达的氛围，同时我们需要控制整体体验的节奏。
上述体验将微妙而细致地提升空间氛围，但避免分散对产品的注意力。当需要强调的空间区域时，我们使用了与其他材料形成对比的材料，以增强空间的冲突感和层次感。
生活在城市的前法国租界，难免会对历史建筑感到兴奋甚至着迷。在早期的修整阶段，我们为未知的可能性保留了一些空间，以想象其美丽，因此在拆除过程中我们进行了探索。在拆除所有装饰后，现场完全破旧，我们意识到这栋建筑的结构并不像我们想象的那么简单。由于其年代久远，我们看到了混合类型的结构，如木地板、红灰砖墙、加固的钢梁和板材，以及混凝土结构。墙纸层层叠叠，展示了不同历史时期的修复和加固痕迹。
然而，我们惊讶地发现，这种带有时间印记的混合结构竟然成为了一个好的叙述者，试图以自己的方式讲述故事。它让我们想起了“重写”的复杂性——通过过去的痕迹进行创造。因此，我们决定保留其原有结构和墙壁，因为我们相信，当这些旧的痕迹与新鲜的设计相遇时，会产生一种令人兴奋的空间体验，激发人们的冲突感官。我们通常努力创造空间的叙事性，而这栋建筑可以自我讲述。
在空间结构的处理上，我们首先进行了全面的建筑加固，然后拆除了一些原有墙壁，使其更加透明，有利于零售。此外，我们重新确定了楼梯的位置，以确保流线的顺畅。
旧墙的保留设计与施工同步进行。原本计划根据我们的设计将一个空间的墙面进行粉刷。然而，在施工准备过程中拆除原有基层时，我们发现铲子留下的痕迹和原墙的颜色与空间和谐且美观。因此，我们决定保留原墙的状态，而不进行现场的粉刷工作。
类似的事情不胜枚举，这也是在旧建筑改造中无法控制的许多不确定性之一。在处理这些不确定性时，室内设计师享受着设计过程中“意外”带来的惊喜，这也是设计过程中的一个迷人部分。
在设计过程中，我们将面临长时间的未知，通过体验不同的叙事方法、不稳定的材料和潜在的结构。我们对一切不熟悉的事物充满热情，因此我们不断强调，意外中没有计划与美。
CANAL ST. is a select shop introduced from Downtown New York. We hope it will bring the Downtown lifestyle to Shanghai by creating a retail storefront that merged the lifestyle of two cities with both local and Downtown ethos. In New York, you see the coexistence of the mark made hundreds of years ago back to the industrial age with the cutting-edge art, fashion and pop culture in our era. Such kind of inclusion and diversity resonate Shanghai. Differently, Shanghai’s unique ethos is built upon in Chinese traditional culture as well as nearly a century’s concession experience. As a rising international city, Shanghai is younger and more energetic. We perceived Shanghai is a bit of rebel but in the meantime, exquisite. More interestingly, the vulgar part is wrapped in Shanghai’s exquisiteness. The constant tension let everything new here has also been polished and precipitated by time. We hope that people visiting the store can feel and experience it.
The space of subway located on the first floor of CANAL ST. was originally the stairs of the building which was long and narrow, which lies in the middle of the whole space. So, we take advantage of this horizontal space to create a transition space with the atmosphere of New York City subway carriage. The long and deep space is divided into two parts and the miniature of the dining cars on the streets from New York City also becomes the gene of our café.
The grille decoration of the manhole cover, neon lights, the reserved steel structure of the building, the exposed bricks and etc. all represent the details of downtown. It may be different from the downtown of New York City, but it conveys the same temperament.
In this space, we display several ‘box’ in different specifications, for example, the green glass box hung above the stairs, wood framed structure box which breaks the original space boundaries, rectangular green acrylic floor props, etc. We use the same elements but various in design techniques throughout the space to make it coherent and unified. In terms of lighting, instead of the point light source from a large number of tube lighting as the main lighting in the usual retail, we use a large-area of panel lights, light films, corrugated boards and other lights to make the indoor light source uniform and softer. The comfortable light source can significantly increase people’s desire to stay in. Besides, the affinity of the selected materials can also make people feel comfortable.
Interior Design, as the basis of shop display, we continuously think about that how to express it extraordinarily and vividly but avoid distracting attentions from products. Moreover, material is the basic element over constructing space while space is the container which contains material.
Then, we changed another container for the regular material in the city to acquire a diverse experience. CANAL ST. itself, with kind of street culture that comes from street and culture. For now, we hope to display street culture in our interior space through our design.
In the space, we utilized multiple materials with different textures by means of splicing, overlapping, bumping and recombining. Nonetheless, selection over most of the materials is based on the atmosphere that space will tell and also, we need to control rhythm of the overall experience.
And the experience above will promote space atmosphere subtly and carefully but avoid distracting attentions from products. When comes to the space area that need to be emphasized, we used materials that stand out of others to enhance the sense of conflict and hierarchy in the space.
Living in the city’s former French Concession, it is hard not to feel excited and even obsessed with the historical buildings. During the early retouch period, we reserved some space for the possibility to the unknown to imagine its beauty, so we were exploring as we demolished it. After the removal of all the decorating, the site was entirely dilapidated, and we realized that the structure of this building is not as simple as we thought. Because of its old age, we saw the mixed type of structures, like wooden floors, red and grey brick walls, strengthening steel beam and plate, and concrete structure. The wallpapers, layer upon layer, showed the traces of different period’s reparation and reinforcement.
Whereas, we surprisingly figured that such hybrid structure with the mark of time turned out to be a good narrator who attempted to tell us stories in its own way. It reminded us the complex of “palimpsest” – to rewrite, to create through traces of the past. We thus decided to reserve its original structure and walls as we believed that when these old marks met with fresh design, it would produce a stipulating spatial experience to excite people’s conflicting senses. The typical practice is we try hard to create the narrativity of the space, this building can tell itself instead. In the treatment of the space structure, we firstly carried out comprehensive building reinforcement, and then removed some of the original walls to make them more transparent and beneficial to retail. In addition, we reestablish the position of the stairs in order to ensure a smooth streamline.
The preservation design of the old wall synchronizes with construction. For the wall from one space planned to be painted in accordance with our original design. However, after the original grassroots layer was removed during the preparation of construction, we found that the traces left by the shovel and the color on the original wall matching with the space harmoniously and aesthetically pleasing. As a result, we decided to remain the original wall’s condition instead of doing the painting works on the spot.
Things like this are too numerous to mention, which is one of many uncertainties that cannot control in reconstruction of old buildings. When dealing with these uncertainties, an interior designer enjoys the surprises brought by the "accident" during the design procedure, which is also a fascinating part of the design procedure.
During the design procedure, we will face the unknown over a long period of time, by experiencing different narrative methods, unstable materials, and potential structures. We are obsessed with everything what we are unfamiliar with, so we keep saying there is no plan & beauty by the accidents.