sanzpont [arquitectura] designs the commercial area at the new T2 of San Jose del Cabo, México's Airport.

The project's main objective is not only to incorporate shops and services within the terminal but also to make the passenger go through an experience during his instance at the Airport Mall creating a whole Image and Brand identity as part of a business and commercial strategy full of differentiating value and uniqueness.

sanzpont [arquitectura]

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AeroShops: Commercial Area inside the Airport.

The recognized Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico with a total of 12 airports in Mexico selected the architecture and design firm sanzpont [arquitectura] to carry out the project for the Commercial Area of its new International Terminal at San Jose del Cabo with a total of 7,500 m2.

The goal with this project is to join the new trend in green design Airports in the world, being the first of its kind in Mexico. The project's main objective is not only to incorporate shops and services within the terminal but also to make the passenger go through an experience during his instance at the Airport Mall creating a whole Image and Brand identity as part of a business and commercial strategy full of differentiating value and uniqueness.

GREEN Airport Design Trend.

The new commercial area at Terminal 2 of San Jose del Cabo Airport incorporates spaces of a greener and more sustainable aeroportuary design value, positioning Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico as a top vanguardist corporation in México.

The design of the Food Court Area was inspired by a Picnic concept surrounded by natural vegetation, the chairs and tables are set on an artificial grass floor, achieving an outdoor environment of relaxation and comfort for passengers.

The totality of the commercial area space is lit by natural sunlight thanks to a monumental glass façade facing the runway. This generates significant energy savings in lighting throughout the day and thus creates a more sustainable commercial environment.

The interior space is designed as if it were an outside commercial corridor, trying to create a futuristic urban experience for the passengers by providing enjoyable spaces and consequently a pleasant stay while waiting for their flight.

Aerodynamic Vanguard Design.

Since the initial planning phase of the project, a contemporary and homogeneous commercial architectural image was sought. The formal concept is based in aerodynamic design using curved lines that reflect vanguardism and a morphological integration with aeronautical design. Vending spaces are contained by enveloping curves made of white Aluminium Compound Panels. The architects relied on digital design and manufacturing techniques to solve the intrinsically formal and constructional part of the project using BIM software, allowing them to visualize and coordinate all aspects of the construction phase.

VIP LOUNGE: Organic Design and Digital Fabrication.

The VIP Waiting Room was designed with an organic and vanguardist cell design concept in mind. The façade is made using a Voronoi type porous skin, which allows privacy in the room without blocking the view to the exterior. The architectural team designed this complex façade by using experimental parametric digital techniques, which solved the 3D formal and structural model of all the support system and its white Aluminum Compound Panel cover, so by these means, all the different and unique pieces are extracted and assembled just like a puzzle.

+ Project credits / data

Project: sanzpont [arquitectura]
Location: San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, MX.
Status: Built.
Year: 2013.

Project & Design Team:
Architectural & Design Project:
sanzpont [arquitectura]

Arq. Victor Sanz Pont
Arq. Sergio Sanz Pont
Arq. Tania Cota
Jose Miguel Cano
Arq. Erika Martinez
Arq. Claudia Kauil Xix
Eder Jafet Hernández
Elizabeth Valencia
Melissa Chávez
DI. Oscar Sanz Pont
Gerard Delgado

Graphic Design & Branding:
LDG. Miguel Angel Mendez + sanzpont [arquitectura]

Installations Project:
Edificaciones Arbibe / Ing. Bierge

Photography:
Arq. Victor Sanz Pont

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Keikichi Yamauchi Architect & Associates recently has completed the Hair Salon interior project, EMILIO in Japan.

it is the “extraordinary relaxation” that brings a sense of exaltation or expectation somewhere in one’s mind.

Keikichi Yamauchi

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Extraordinary relaxation

In Maruyama district, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, a small beauty salon with three salon chairs and two shampoo units opened.

Maruyama district is popular as a residential area. Many tasteful shops exist and there are already a sufficient number of beauty salons in the neighborhood. Customers expect a beauty salon for comfort and relaxation, in addition to high skills for cutting and setting, and this tendency has increased in recent years.

For this salon plan, comfort and relaxation are important themes. However, the required relaxation is not the usual relaxation that one can feel at home; rather, it is the “extraordinary relaxation” that brings a sense of exaltation or expectation somewhere in one’s mind.

The salon has a styling area with an inorganic and cool impression, and a shampoo area which is softly surrounded by narrow wooden louvers. These two spaces with different identities have a relationship of mutual encouragement. Plants are grown on the floor, walls, and ceilings of each space, using artificial soil made from specially processed cedar and cypress bark. The rather tall plants on the floor roughly divide the two spaces, while the ivy on the ceiling provides a sense of depth to the area. Ivy planted on the shampoo area floor climbs stainless steel wires on the wall and covers the entire louvers on the ceiling as if consuming them. Although the existence and scent of the plants provide comfort and relaxation, we are happy when one can feel something extraordinary in the sight of vigorously growing plants on the floor, walls, and ceiling inside the building.

+ Project facts

Project name: emilio
Type: Hair Salon
Location: Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Architect: Keikichi Yamauchi Architect & Associates
Size: 83.0 sqm
Photo: Keikichi Yamauchi

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Marco Ripa, craftsman and designer, runs “officina Art & Craft“. Through it he produces unique and bespoke furniture pieces in iron and steel. Born in 1977, at the age of 15 Marco entered the workshop to learn the craft of an artisan. He chose iron as his signature metal because it’s dirty, noisy and rejects repetition.

Marco Ripa recently has created “Who’s next”, it’s a magazine rack based on the overlapping of a cube and a parallelepiped, of which we are able to see only the essential structure, just what is necessary to create the shape, in a positive-negative game where you can tell what there is and what there is not.

 

mode:lina studio have completed a new house interior in Poznan, Poland. The concept is all about meeting owners’ needs, introducing smart storage solutions and playing with colors and materials.

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“We assume that less is more”
With this concept, clients came to mode:lina office. With concept and 140 sq meter of house interior, which was meant to be designed due to their own ideas.

“The less door, the better interior is – we want space as big as possible! But we need a lot of storage space as well.”
According to this expectations architects decided to arrange hall space with few clever solutions. At first, they used space under stairs. Usually empty place, here is filled with really spacious storage – there’s even a dog house!
Moreover, sliding doors don’t take so much place and their mirror surface enlarges the space.

“During working days our breakfast is ultra fast (She doesn’t eat anything, he eats while leaving house). We celebrate weekend meals, that’s why we need a big dining table.”
An island was a dream for the kitchen area – it’s perfect for owners’ quick meals. For these leisure ones, there is a big dining table.
This centre of a house is marked with white frame, which continues in livingroom.

“We don’t want the whole room to be about TV. We have some books, some albums also, it would be nice to expose them. Fireplace same as TV – we want it but it should be discreet.”
Living room space was once again dictated with minimalistic attitude. Television and fireplace are hidden with walls’ dark color, which is surrounded with white frame.
Scandinavian style, clients’ favourite, was reached by materials – raw concrete and wood. It’s supplemented with white and dark grey shades with ubiquitous energetic yellow color. Art appears in this interior in paintings and designer furnitures and accessories.

(She) “I like having my wardrobe in the bedroom. (It has to be really big!). We usually wake up at the same time, if not, my rummaging doesn’t disturb him anyway.”
Bedroom is connected with wardrobe. Again, raw materials and gray shades are combined with energetic yellow color, similar to the groundfloor.

+ Project data

PROJECT: Beam & Block House
DESIGN: mode:lina architekci (Pawel Garus & Jerzy Wozniak)
PROJECT TEAM: Pawel Garus, Jerzy Wozniak, Kinga Kin
COMPLETION: kwiecien / April 2013
AREA: 140 m2
PHOTOS: Marcin Ratajczak

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