This installation by Italian architect Francesco Moncada for the Wrong Weather store in Porto, Portugal, features wooden furniture clustered together in different formations.
Called Algebraic Variations, the interior has 206 modular structures that can be reconfigured in different ways in accordance with the collections in stock.
A mirrored wall at the back of the store elongates the space and the rhythm of the modules further.
Photographs are by Alberto Moncada.
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Here's some more information from Moncada and Wrong Weather:
“Algebraic Variations” is an installation designed for the interior refurbishment of Wrong Weather: a fashion and lifestyle store for the contemporary men in Porto, Portugal.
The renovation of the shop is furnished with 206 modular structures, which occupy the centre of the shop.
A sort of “Autoprogettazione” with modules, that allows the client endless reconfiguration of the space according with the collection.
Each module with different proportion interacts with the space.
A cityscape inside the space.
On the top of each structure we find items that defines the contemporary man and the city that inspires.
–Wrong Weather – Porto, Portugal
The renovation of a 200 square meter Wrong Weather concept store utilizes the existing space in a new way, in order to allow flexibility to display the items in multiple configurations, enabling the client to adapt to different seasons and collections.
We propose to redraw the configuration of the space with 204 modular structures that can be grouped and combined in various ways to reduce or alter the size and character of the total furniture complex.
An “Atlas of Shapes” manual allows the client to arrange different configurations and create archetypical shapes that come out from algebraic geometry.
The structures are all different in height but constant in length (30 cm), so that each one can stand alone or combined with the rest.
A “WAVE” of 48 rectangular small tables, a “SPIRAL” of 36 columns and a “DUNE” of 120 rectangular modular structures are the first installation at the store.
In order to re-program the space in a more clear subdivision of the merchandise, we relocate smaller items in the “WAVE” made by 48 small tables 30x15 cm with variable height from 10 to 60 cm on top of the existing bench beside the entrance.
The accessories and the grooming area, is in the “SPIRAL” formed by 36 modular structures 30x30 cm with variable height from 90 cm to 180 cm.
The “DUNE” located in the center of the space, is a display for selected designers items, bags and shoes.
A progression of 120 small tables (30x60 cm) with variable height from 10 cm to 110 cm concentrates the customers’ view in a single direction.
The new mirrored back-wall replicates the space at the end of the shop and gives the illusion of passage going trough the building.
The simplicity of the tables painted with two different hues of blue, in combination with the concrete floor and the new metal displayers, act as a neutral background for the displayed merchandise of selected designers.
Architect: Francesco Moncada
Team: Francesco Moncada, Francesco Bogoni, Margarida Norton Barbosa, Miguel Taborda, Mafalda Rangel
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algebraic variation is a quite pretentious title for an ordinary project like that, and it generated to me a totally different expectations.
What a pity!
We could resume this project method as follow:
1. buy the last 3 Wallpaper
2. select the most fashionable and easy-copying 'architectonic' elements
3. mix up the suitable ones for your new commission
The result is made of triangulated surfaces ( very trendy until 2 years ago), random tube lights ( quite fashion in Holland from 1995 to 2002), and than 3 danish elements!
This project is about cheap materials, fast and easy execution, flexibility for the client.
Tubes and triangulated shapes they were already there before. Is an installation.
In fact the original project was constructed two years ago…
This project is just about furniture not about the shop (triangulated shape was already there) that was already there… please read the text!
The architect of the store is not the same one that did the installation…because credits are well deserved: the architect of the store is Arq. Nuno Paiva from Lisbon.
Ok. Sorry, but the text was a bit confused…
So, the method is:
1. buy the last 3 Wallpapers
2. select the most suitable furniture, or as you prefer: installation
3. variate it 'algebraically' according to three mesmerizing danish concept
4. finally, forget some credits in order to take advantage from the authors ambiguity
The question:
is the project based on a algebraic furniture variation or is based on the variation of the credits?
hahaha so courious about your projects! ;)