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Suspended vending machines dispense plastic tubes containing coloured T-shirts in this Sydney shop by Facet Studio of Sydney and Osaka.

The tubes are arranged by colour, with a sample T-shirt on a hanger below each dispenser.

Up to 15 tubes can be stored in each dispenser, allowing up to 2,550 to be on display.

Named Streetology, the shop is situated next to shoe store Sneakerology (see our earlier story).

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Photography is by Katherine Lu.

The following information was provided by Facet Studio:

Streetology

Within plastic tubes of standardised 100mm diameter, tee shirts are stored and merchandised. Within dispensers of standardised 100mm wide by 1500mm high, a maximum of 15 plastic tubes are stored and displayed. Then by repeating the dispensers by 170 times, we are now able to display a maximum of 2,550 tee shirts. If we sell one tee shirt, one plastic tube disappears from the dispenser. We designed a system of dispensers and tubes to visualize commerciality; although on its own, the stock quantity of the tee shirts fluctuates vertically within the individual dispenser unit, however after 170 repeats this fluctuation forms a “pattern” horizontally across the dispensers. There is no such field of study called “Streetology”; but this shop is a visual reflection of the street trend. It creates excitement by drawing a parallel between the shopping experience, and the act of flipping through pages of magazine asking oneself, “I wonder what is popular now on the streets!”

Project Data

Program: Commercial fitout: retail
Project Team: Olivia Shih, Yoshihito Kashiwagi
Location: Sydney, Australia
Main Material: Plywood, Aluminium plate
Area: 30 m2
Built: 2011
Photo: Katherine Lu
Mural: Babekühl
Structure: Simpson Design Associates
Lighting: Electrolight

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When viewed from outside an Issey Miyake store in Tokyo, these chairs backs by Japanese architect Yoichi Yamamoto appear to have legs and seats.

Although the wooden backs of the blue chairs are fixed directly to the floor, the legs are painted onto the ground so that from a fixed angle they appear in the correct perspective.

The installation, named 2D/3D Chairs, displays a selection of hats by milliner Akio Hirata.

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Here is some text from the architect:

2D/3D Chairs Installation by Yoichi Yamamoto Architects

The back of the chairs stand up from the stage, while the legs of the chairs are drawings on the floor of the stage.

If you look at the installation from one point in front of the shop window, the back of the chairs, which are three-dimensional objects, and the legs of the chairs, which are two-dimensional drawings, meet and create a single figure.

We expressed Issey Miyake’s “from 2D cloth to 3D dress” philosophy in our installation.

stage area: 11.25m2
floor: printing on removable media

chair: cuttted readymade chair painted by 2066-40 rocky mountain sky (Benjamin Moore)

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The Shanghai office of Chinese architecture studio Taranta Creations features a staircase within a labia-like orifice and a floor that doubles as a desk.

Above photograph is by Shen Qiang of Shen Photo.

Upstairs, the entire floor plane is used as a work surface, with seating contained inside four large voids.

Taranta Creations designed the space, called Red Town Office, for its own staff.

The staircase joining the two levels is painted red on the inside and silver on the outside.

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Above photograph is by Shen Qiang of Shen Photo.

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Photography is by Fay Wu, apart from where otherwise stated.

The information that follows is from Taranta Creations:

Red Town Office

The design of Taranta Creations his own office space is a reflection of the ongoing creative process within the studio.

The upper floor is constructed as one continuous desk in which four sitting areas are cut out.

This large ‘work floor’ invites the designers to use the space for walking, sketching, meeting, modelling, thinking, drafting, sitting and relaxing.

This kind of informal interpretation of office space encourages cross-pollination between the different projects and disciplines.

The upper floor is connected to the lower floor by a ‘water drop’ in which the staircase is placed.

Design team: Enrico Taranta, Giorgio Radojkovic, Juriaan Calis.
Location: Red Town Sculpture Park, Shanghai, China.
Project year: 2010

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Lego-like blocks are stacked along the walls of this cafe in Chennai by Indian studio Mancini Enterprises.

Part of a chain called Mocha Mojo, the cafe caters for 110 customers on two levels.

Lighting is concealed within the wall-mounted boxes, spilling out from above and below each colourful strata.

Here are some more details from the designers:

Mocha Mojo
Chennai, India

Mocha Mojo is a coffeehouse with 110 covers in Madras providing a space for coffee and conversations.

The design refers to the 70’s mastery of “special” – furniture/wallpaper which in turn dwelled on the early modernists’ approach towards interiors.

Beauty through purity, reduction to functionalist objects, light on pure material on pure colour.

Only in the 60s and 70s the old qualities of “opulence” and “ornament” were re-infused into interiors resulting in spaces of great intensity.

It is this intensity, which was searched for in this project.

Besides the carpenters and painters had great fun during the construction of those layers.

They had been generated in 3d and then issued to site level by level – a simple process which not unlike childhood Lego triggered immediate visual satisfaction.

Interior design by Mancini Enterprises in Chennai, India

Project team: Niels Schoenfelder, Bharath Ram, V.S. Aneesh, R. Velu, Sangeetha Patrick, Natasha Jeyasingh

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