“Organic Net” Boutique by Sako Architects: A Design that No One Can Copy

Home to many of the richest Chinese businessmen and officials, Hangzhou is known as a leading “leisure city” of China. To stand out in Hangzhou’s luxury retail market, the female clothing brand Romanticism asked Japan’s SAKO Architects to design a store that “no one could copy.” The result is an organic net theme that covers both the exterior and interior of the store. In an interview with movingcities.org, architect Keiichiro Sako explains the design requirements and concept:

The client asked me for a design that no one could copy. There were no other requests. My design style is that if a client has a requirement, I try to get a grip on his thinking and bring it further. As there were no requirements, I questioned the concept of the boutique, the clothes and the relationship between body and space. In the end I designed an organic net winding through the space.

Clothes are our second skin, space a third skin, and my design is positioned in between the clothes and space. It’s like a piece of furniture that you can hang clothes on and it changes its shape into partition, counter, chair, furniture as well as railing.

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