OMEGA boutique Shanghai at Swatch Art Peace Hotel

China

Oct.2014

2011年にSwatchが全館を借り上げ、The Swatch Art Peace Hotelとしてオープンしました。この建物は1909年にアヘン戦争終結会議が行われた和平飯店として歴史に名を残しています。それ故に歴史的建造物に認定され、その１階Palace Hallに在るこのOmegaは、竣工当時のデザインを保持するべく壁や天井に一切手を加える事を厳しく制限されました。

世界最大の面積を誇るこのOmegaはFlagshipとしての世界観を伝える為、大小さまざまな空間構成が必要で有り、自立する断面形状を持つRIB構造をエレメントとした格子壁を新たにデザインしました。底辺は三角形で上に向かって閉じて行き、そのまま庇の様に折れ曲がった部材を並べた間仕切りです。それを自在に構成して柔らかく空間を間仕切りながら、周囲の気配も感じられる不思議な空間が完成しました。

 

In 1909, the International Opium Commission met in this hotel called the Peace Hotel at the time for the first international conference dedicated to the prohibition of opium. The conceptual approach and objectives of this historical Swatch Art Peace Hotel project were presented and took three years to be completed in 2011. With due respect paid to its cultural protection, we were severely restricted to touch the original ceiling and wall of the Palace hall located on the ground floor which was presented to Omega .

Not only be a flagship store but also be honored the largest surface of the store worldwide, the space needed to be demised from large to small in order to present the Omega world. Therefore, a vertical stand-alone “RIB” element which has a triangular base and gradually flattened to the top was designed to form a lattice work as a partition wall. Eventually, this room divider softly closes and opens up from one room to another as you walk along the palace hall.

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