Local art group Xpan has set up a store Guadalajara lined with modular aluminum Shelves that can be rearranged and moved depending on the needs of the space.
Located in the Colonia Americana neighborhood of Guadalajara, Espacio.gdl is a commercial space designed and built XpanA local studio that produces a wide range of work such as sound installations and publications.
According to the studio, Espacio.gdl was “conceived as an adaptable infrastructure”, where wide expanses of aluminum shelves could be reorganized to display a variety of different objects.
The shop has been demolished at ground level and a mezzaninewhich are connected by a dark steel staircase that hugs one side of the space.
Shelving units made of cage-like steel frames are pushed into the walls on each level with vertical strips of light.
Nodules along the length of the frame support thin, aluminum shelves, which can be removed or aligned to create a longer beam.
Xpan explained that the system’s construction is part of ongoing work to develop a modular, adaptable system. A similar shelving system for the Mexico City location Also designed by the studio.
“We’re interested in structures that behave less as containers and more as devices,” said Xpan’s founder. moises saikal hadid told Dezeen. “The project is derived from Xpan’s ongoing research into metabolic systems – architecture that evolves through matter, sound and interaction.”
“Inspiration comes from precision and reconfiguration: how a minimalist vocabulary of steel, aluminum and light can articulate complexity without excess.”
Vertical lighting was created as part of this system, and was wrapped in polycarbonate panels that acted as “diffusers” to refract and “spread” the light around the space.
In the center of the store, white, translucent curtains and black box speakers hang down from a steel mobile structure, creating an “interior subdivision,” according to the studio.
Suspended vases also hang from the structure.
The same white curtains hang down one side of the shelving units, and are also mounted on the mezzanine.
The remaining surfaces are bare, uncoated concrete.
Dezeen recent round up Nine independent studios shaping design in GuadalajaraWhereas Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos recently completed a sports academy in the city.,
photography is by g.mar_med,
Project Credit:
Xpan Team: Luis Arenas, Emiliano Dennis, Jimena Bustamante, Miguel Reyes and Humberto Cupio
