Housed in a spacious urban building, the New Room hair salon project, for the hairstylist Pedro Remy, intends to be contemporary and minimalist. Endowed with an industrial, informal and coarse expression, this project is meant to show the original structural concrete elements such as the floor, ceiling and walls.
With a non treated high ceiling, this hair cutting and styling area is structured by a long vertical fabric – a curtain with transparency that snakes along the space.
As if “it had fallen from heaven”, the long curtain moves along a rail working as a defining element of circulation. The space is immediately organized, opening or closing off the working areas.
This vertical element offers privacy to each user as well as a spatial fluidity to those who inhabit it or work there.
At the upper floor, a structural white mezzanine encloses two private areas - the beauty room and the make up studio - both embraced in white painted corrugated steel sheets, reinforcing the vertical sense and the industrial, and experimental, nature of the space.
The space is further reinforced with some furniture pieces specifically designed for the New Room.
The New Room is therefore a concept able to transform and to be transformed.
Owner: Pedro Remy; Leading designer: Nuno Capa, Architect; Built area: 66 square meters; Location: Braga, Portugal; Photographer: Rui Pires.
