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Bags and clothing hang from steel chains at the Prague store for sports brand Puma by Czech architects EDIT! and architecture student Tereza Komarkova (+ slideshow).
Komarkova’s design concept for the Puma Social Club references the cloakrooms of coal miners in the Czech city of Ostrava, who would air their overalls by attaching them to suspended chains rigged up to the ceiling.
Located in the centre of the city, the store occupies the ground floor of a building that replaced the house where influential author Franz Kafka was born.
The chains and pulleys also integrate lighting and hang over both a shop floor and a cafe.
Pre-weathered steel was used to create the cafe counter, as well as the perforated walls that hold the product display shelves.
Designers Nendo have also designed a store for Puma, which you can see here.
Photography is by Saša Dobrovodský.
Here’s some more information from the architects:
PUMA social club Prague
The Puma company came to us with a specific brief – to make a multifunctional meeting point combining a shop with their social club concept and a cafe.
The store is oriented especially towards young people who may discover Puma street wear products in a more amusing way and Puma also wished to make students of architecture to participate on the interior design. Our role was therefore to organize a workshop with pre-selected students, to choose the most intriguing concept and, together with the winning student, to develop the concept to a realization.
Tereza Komarkova, a student of architecture at the Technical University in Liberec, joined the edit! team for 6 months as she was chosen after the workshop for her original concept inspired by miners’ cloakrooms in coal mines of the Ostrava industrial region. Miners used suspended steel chains to hang up their clothes and pull them up to make them ventilated.
In Puma store the chains serve to present the products and to modify the inner space or even to free it up for various occasions or events.
Their height can be controlled both manually or remotely and they can be also tied together to create a sort of chain trees with products.
The building where the Puma social club store is located is the birthplace of Franz Kafka, in the very heart of the historical centre of Prague.
The approach was first to clean up the space from additional non-historic interventions and then unite all public areas by a massive wooden floor.
Besides the chains the major interior feature is a long bar cladded in rusted steel plates that also serves as a retail counter. The rusted steel is used also at specially designed walls of perforated plates where shoes and apparel are presented.
Project architect: Ivan Boroš (edit!)
Author of the winning concept: Tereza Komárková (student of Faculty of Architecture, Technical University in Liberec)
Co-authors: Ivan Boroš (edit!), Juraj Calaj (edit!), Lenka Míková (edit!), Vítězslav Danda (edit!), Tereza Komárková
Photographs of realization: Saša Dobrovodský (www.dobrovodsky.cz)
Client: Puma Czech Republic
Project managment: Martin Šourek, Didaktik-CZ (www.didaktik-cz.cz)
Estimated costs: 93 000 Euro
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This faceted spiral staircase was created by Czech architects EDIT! to join two neighbouring apartments in Prague.
The central staircase has oak treads and glossy white panels that reflect light through three storeys of the building.
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The following is from the architects:
Staircase by Edit! architects
We were commissioned to design a connection of two neighboring apartments in a residential building in Prague’s quarter Karlin, a former storehouse adapted by Baumschlager Eberle Architects in 2009. The clients liked the location and the character of the residential complex but required more space than the existing layout offered. Therefore they decided to purchase 2 neighboring apartments and connect them into a single unit.
Our task was to design the connection of two triplex units on the upper floors of the building and thus create one large multi-generation apartment. As each of the original flats had its own staircase, one of them became naturally obsolete after the connection. In a further discussion with the clients we came to the agreement to replace both staircases by a new one that would serve better in relation to the changed layout.
In addition the clients wished the new staircase to become the main feature of the interior that connects all three floors. At the same time, we were limited by the existing opening in the floor slab where the structure had to fit in order to avoid more demolition works. Finally we came to a concept of spiral stairs but broken into straight fragments. This way we were able to achieve the desired rotation in the given area. The bottom of the staircase follows the fragmentation and completes the overall sculptural effect, which – with a little exaggeration – recalls the Czech cubism.
Besides offering attractive views from many different angles on every floor, the stairs also participate in light distribution thanks to the high glossy surface of lacquered MDF boards cladding. A light strip runs bellow the outer handrail providing an intimate illumination of steps that are made of oak wood to match the flooring.
Project architects:
Ivan Boros
Lenka Mikova
Cooperation:
Vitezslav Danda
Juraj Calaj
Matous Godik
Kristof Hanzlik
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