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Architects: Block ArchitectureLocation: London, EnglandStructural Engineer: Price & MyersServices Engineer: Furness GreenMain Contractor: Matteblak LtdClient: Anna ForslingProject Area: 67 sqmBudget: £157,550.00Project Year: 2009Photographs: Leon Chew
The original Klinik Hair Salon, completed in 1998, was one of our first projects, and although small, itwas important in that it helped to define how the practice started to explore certain themes. We started toexperiment with drawing references from different worlds - in this particular instance a medical andutilitarian world, in order to create a space that was strangely familiar yet ambiguous. By using alanguage borrowed from a different realm, we set out to invite a more playful interaction with the spaceand enhance the experience of visiting a hairdressers.
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We used recognizable forms and materials that began to allow a sort of hybrid space to emerge: Thewaiting bench was a hybrid of Chaise Longue and Hospital Bed; White leather and tube Steel wasconsciously chosen, as was the nostalgic waiting room analogue clock.
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Although utilitarian, the intention was always that the result should be aesthetically pleasing andsuggestive. In a way we created a fictional space that was made up of elements that refer to other worlds.
CCTV was a playful intervention which added a voyeuristic dimension to the whole experience.Cameras positioned above each chair allowed a view of the cutting process on the monitor, setting up asituation where one became distanced from the experience through the mechanism of the camera. Theyalso permitted a view that one is never usually able to see which is the back of the head throughout theprocess, so the cameras empowered the viewer, (and extended the possibilities for monitoring what wastaking place).
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This process allowed a latent narrative to develop which helped us to design and create the space. Thisdoes not necessarily demand a literal reading, but rather it is an invitation for playful interaction betweenthe space and it’s users.
The design approach for the second Klinik Salon was a continuation and extension of the original ideas.Here we wanted to further explore the idea of a filmic space, as if inviting clients to step momentarilyinto a different world. It was a specific requirement of the brief from the client that this second salon wasto continue the same themes aesthetically, but in a refreshed manner.
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This project had particular site constraints which we responded to by extending the interior space,connecting the front shop area with a rear store room via a new side extension. The extension formed notonly a connection, but created additional internal space which made the project viable. This approachcreated a very long and narrow plan, which we countered by the introduction of white gloss wall panels,which line the length of the salon, creating a reflective surface which visually extends the width of thespace.
Although a decision was taken early on that everything below the datum of the wall panels would bewhite, we played with different textures and pattern within this. So the reflective walls are countered bymatt leather upholstery, and the utilitarian tiles introduce a grid in dark grey grout, which visuallyextends the space in the long direction.
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Another challenge we faced was getting natural light into the centre of a very long space with a narrowshop front and very narrow rear exit. The new extension allowed us to design in a large skylight, whichnot only floods the centre of the space with natural light, but is placed to allow a view of the sky fromthe backwashes.
The shopfront was designed to form a framed view of the interior of the shop, with thick black structuraltape bonding the glass to what appears to be a thin and elegant white powder coated steel frame. Thisdetailing allows only the 5mm thickness of the steel angle frames to be visible around the glass.
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Clear interlocking of Design Strategy & Design results in project that can b unmistakably attributed 2 Design Thinkinghttp://bit.ly/abvPch
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RT @nicdesign: Clear interlocking of Design Strategy & Design… unmistakably attributed 2 Design Thinkinghttp://bit.ly/abvPch
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0Ryou says:
It looks vivid at night.I like the contrast between black exterior and white interior.really cool and interesting
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I think it looks like a dental clinic…espacially the washbasin with the white tiles….
Reply # March 21, 2010 at 00:41
+1Ralph Kent says:
Could be a job cleaning the hair out of that angled shelf supporting the CCTV monitors. The grunt in that salon is certainlygoing to be earning his or her salary!
Reply # March 21, 2010 at 10:23
0Michelle says:
The tile work looks cheap and boring. I’ve seen clinics that look better.
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0SWG STUDIO says:
The Klinik Hair Salon by Block Architecture. CCTV allows you to see the back of the head throughout the process. COOL.http://bit.ly/abvPch
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0SWG STUDIO says:
The Klinik Hair Salon by Block Architecture. CCTV allows you to see the back of the head throughout the process. COOL.
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i like this place
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