The Opium Eyewear The Flip Flop Mumbai.

The Opium Eyewear The Flip Flop Mumbai.

📅11 Febbraio 2020, 15:40
TESTO ITALIANO

The pop-up store designed by Renesa Studio offers a clear spatial interpretation of the brand’s product identity at the Mumbai airport.

Opium, a well-known premium lifestyle eyewear brand, houses unique spatial elements set against a grid of time and space vividly illustrating Renesa’s bold design ideology.

Opium pop-up store designed by Renesa Studio

In a retail space stacking multiple products, the ‘ways of display’, determine an impression of the space to a great degree. Thus, the intervention sought to conceive a visually attractive space, articulating the functional moments. Starting with the arched entrance, framed by a stark neon sign of the brand, customers are guided through the one-way design that animates and illuminates the pop-up store.

For a person passing by, the dialogue created between the design and store, is that of an interactive component that invites the customers to delve into the store. The design centers around a distinct and iconographic product presentation that allows different levels of interaction based on the client’s needs. Defined by its gridded pattern, the shelving units delineate themselves through the flip-flop. Each pair of glasses sits on its own mini stage exaggerated through a neon green accent. The process followed a grid of 8×4 inch tile that extends to the walls, flooring and furniture.

The idea was to create a captivating store that conceptually references what eyewear does; tint or enhance the image. To incorporate this notion, the modules were repeated arbitrarily throughout the space to create complexity; these modules while curving in to the store were broken by neon green, mirror and collapsible shelves to create the illusion of recesses or volumes looming out from the walls.

Opium pop-up store designed by Renesa Studio

Thereby, articulating the language of design not only through repetition, but also through recourse to everyday store typologies. The curved line to which the design adapts and configures develops seamlessly continuing on to the cashier desk unit. The desk conforms to the homogeneity of the design centralizing and distributing the circulation of the store space by being located in the middle. Flanked on either sides by mirrors, a semblance of movement is created that emphasizes each display in a symmetric perspective.

The project is not merely about designing an optical store, it is to create an ambience in which public space and private space are deconstructed and placed in the same field to maintain a strong visual character. The result is an eccentric experience through a simple vision of color blocking.

Clients Team Opium
Mr. Ronak Sheth, Ms. Vidhi Sheth, Mr. Mudir Shaikh
Design Team
Renesa Architecture Design Interiors
• Sanjay Arora – Founder| Principal Architect
• Sanchit Arora – Studio Head Architect| Concept Design Head/Sketches/Graphics
• Vandana Arora – Interior Designer| Decor Head
• Virender Singh – Studio Technical Head 
• Akarsh Varma – Architect
• Jagdish Bangari – Architect/Graphics
• Aayush Misra – Architect
• Prarthna Misra – Architect/Graphics
• Tanushi Goyal – Architecture Intern
• Navdisha Kukreja – Interior Designer Intern.
• Ayushi Gupta – Architecture Intern.
• Anushka Arora – Architecture Intern / Text
• Lighting Consultants – White Lighting Solutions 
Area 12 sqm
Photos courtesy Niveditaa Gupta 

by AN shopfitting magazine no.154 ©

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