The project is a conversion for a small cosmetic shop in Zurich. The client wanted to divide two large rooms into four small areas: a reception hall, two cosmetic treatment rooms and a lounge for the staff.The focus was then to create a place with a strong identity and at the same time to provide different sensory experiences. The design concept was to build a partition wall that would translate all these needs. The walls are the core of the shop and divide it in two distinct halves. The first wall begins with a concave part, which forms the entrance area, and then merges into a convex wall to create a larger area for the treatment room.
The second wall twists to create the second treatment room and at the same time to enlarge the space of the lounge area. To realize the curved wall, we developed the idea of a chain of identical basic elements made of gypsum boards whose individual parts together form the curved partition walls. The red and beige tones, the signature colors of the shop, play with the different wall profiles and offer different effects depending on the observer's perspective. The remaining wall surface of Venetian stucco and the seamless floor in elephant grey form an overall neutral background to let the curved wall appear as the only protagonist.
Team:
Architect: studio berardi miglio
Graphic: Studio Eusebio
Photography: BEDA SCHMID
