<h1><a href="../../index.html">Acconci Home</a></h1> <h2><a href="../../projects/index.html">All Projects</a></h2> <h2><a href="../../threads/index.html">All Threads</a></h2> <!--<h2><a href="/acconci/dev/views/">All Views</a></h2>--> <h2>08</h2> <p>UNITED BAMBOO STORE Daikanyama, Tokyo 2003 An Old Building Re-clothed. The exterior of the building is given a second skin: a screen of stainless-steel mesh that encloses the balcony and re-shapes the building. Bulge In &amp; Out. On the ground floor, the glass facade pulls back to accept you; past mirrored side-walls, you walk through a sliding door. On the upper floor, which houses office and showroom, the glass façade pushes out; images of people in clothes from the store are projected out to the street. A Clothing Store As Soft As Clothes, As Soft As Skin. PVC sheeting is pulled down from the ceiling onto the walls; it’s pulled out from the walls, and pushed back in, to make shelves; it’s pulled out and around to make a counter. A Store On The Surface, A Store That’s All Surface. The skin glows from within; light from fluorescents, behind the PVC, is diffused throughout the store. The clothing is lit from above and behind. Clothes In The Jungle. The small store bulges out of itself; the non-structural walls of the old building are removed, and replaced with curving glass alcoves. Hanging clothes are displayed in each alcove, inserted within the weeds &amp; overgrown shrubbery outside; you look at clothes in, you take clothes out of, a jungle. Fashion Without Models. If you like how you look, in the clothes you might buy, you can activate a camera, behind the mirror. It’s you who appears on the store façade, facing the street. </p> <p>This project view belongs to <a href="../../project/united_bamboo/index.html">United Bamboo Store</a>, and is threadged with:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../../thread/2003/index.html">2003</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Built/index.html">Built</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Dar%C3%ADo%20N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez/index.html">Darío Núñez</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Display-Exhibition%20Design/index.html">Display-Exhibition Design</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Gia%20Wolff/index.html">Gia Wolff</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Interiors/index.html">Interiors</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Japan/index.html">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Lights/index.html">Lights</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Peter%20Dorsey/index.html">Peter Dorsey</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Push%20and%20Pull/index.html">Push and Pull</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Reflective/index.html">Reflective</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Screen-Overlay-Camouflage/index.html">Screen-Overlay-Camouflage</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Sehzat%20Oner/index.html">Sehzat Oner</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Sound/index.html">Sound</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Stephen%20Roe/index.html">Stephen Roe</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Stores/index.html">Stores</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Transparent-Translucent/index.html">Transparent-Translucent</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/United%20Bamboo%20Store/index.html">United Bamboo Store</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Video/index.html">Video</a></li> <li><a href="../../thread/Wave-Ripple-Flow/index.html">Wave-Ripple-Flow</a></li> </ul> <p>(<a href="../../img/131/10.jpg">I</a>, <a href="../../img/131/10.jpg.large.jpg">L</a>, <a href="../../img/131/10.jpg.thumb.jpg">T</a>, <a href="../../index.html">A</a>)</p>