LONGCHAMP: CONTEMPORARY FLAGSHIP
Following a successful launch of a Zip Bag, Heatherwick Studio was invited by Longchamp to pattern a company’s initial à la mode flagship store. With a sell space situated on top of travel level, a plea was to find a approach to pull people up in to a store from a street.
The studio’s resolution uses healthy light, from a vast glassy core cut by a building, to pull people up a landscape, rsther than than a required staircase or escalator, to a building above. Constructed in 1¼” hot-rolled steel as good as receiving 6 months to build, a step landscape weighs 55 tonnes as good as is an designation of ribbon-like forms which order as good as intersect to form a topography of walkways, landings as good as steps.
The balustrades have been shaped regulating aerospace windscreen record to emanate a array of uniquely-formed panels which furnish with a fluidity of fabric, rejecting a informed acerbity as good as flatness of required piece glass.
The plan additionally includes a building a whole of a brand new third storey, incorporating showroom, offices as good as roof tiles garden, as good as singular arrangement as good as lighting systems for a store.
