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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. BAMBOU CLOTHES SHOP in MUI NE, VIETNAM by SICART & SMITH ARCHITECTSNovember 4th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: SICART & SMITH ARCHITECTS Bambou Company is a fashion brand established in Vietnam since more than 10 years. Their products is uniquely based on natural fibers such as Bamboo, Milk, Coffee, Modal, Tencel…fibres.  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith
 Image Courtesy © Julien Smith All their production is made in Vietnam with their head office and factory in NhaTrang.They have requested SICART & SMITH ARCHITECTS to upgrade their shops identity without loosing the spirit of the brand.  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith SICART & SMITH ARCHITECTS with Tra Mi Lam Van (architect in charge of the project) have designed the first new shop of a series. Located in Mui Ne in a prime location for a surface of 300 m2, the shop shows very advanced creative features.  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith Graphic pictures that evocate nature are very present in the shop. From the façade, the back of reception, the changing room and the ceiling: A Bamboo forest picture is inserted into skylight circles on the ceiling. This brings day light sensation all along the shop and brings an immediate mood.  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith The elements are combined in contrast and opposition. This bring balance and harmony between all materials: Concrete floor, grass rug, brass metal furniture, frosted glass, white oak, walnut.  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith All furniture is made in a unique material in brass metal look. (Podium stage, tables, clothes hanger…) The reception itself is a design piece. It is made with a combination of slices of white oak wood and glasses lighted in the back with changing color LED.  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith A “tree”stands behind. It is painted as the Vietnamese lacquer style and decorated with blossom cherry flower paper light (designed with the Japanese artist Ayano Otani). The changing rooms are hidden behind a waterfall, which bring delicate water sound music and gives intimacy and privacy to the place required for a changing room.  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith The centre of the shop is dedicated to communicate about the fibres and display some exhibition booths set up around the structural columns. This axis is visible in both way of the visit. All fine details are designed such as the clothes hanger. Instead of the traditional clothes hanger we may find from the suppliers. The designers have imagined some pendant ropes to replace the standard ready made.  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith No rooms are left a part. The toilet and the kid corner have also been carefully studied and are settled as a room itself and not as secondary functional necessary rooms. In this project everything is custom made. The designers has chosen to not use any bamboo material in the decoration cause it was to obvious and redundant with the brand name and the natural bamboo fibre already present in the clothes.  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith  Image Courtesy © Julien Smith Instead, they have created some clothes racks made with the carton tubes of the fabric rolls used in fabric factory. We can imagine it as an allegory of the bamboo stick or even better: Imagining that all the fabrics from the rolls in factory have been used to create the clothes, which are displayed in the shop while,it is only remain the tubes of the empty fabric rolls, which serve has a support for the rack to exhibit the fabrics which has become a clothes. SICART & SMITH ARCHITECTS Co.Ltd, is a 100% foreign owned company registered since 2010 under the Laws of Vietnam. Previously known under the name Less Is More Design, the Company is lead by Franck Sicart and Julien Smith – Foreign French International Architects in Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). We are a multi-disciplinary design consultant engaged in Architecture, Interior Design, Furniture and Product Design. We define ourselves as a “Boutique Design Firm” deeply dedicated to our clients, with a strong need understanding. Our projects vary from Master Planning, High Rise building, Resort, Hotel, Residential area, Private Villa, Bar & Restaurant and Public Building to Interior Design, Shop and Retail. Our design style can be defined as a Contemporary Tropical-Modern design with a touch of tradition and local identity. Thanks to a strong team of Architects, we are able to handover, in-house, full design services for high standard projects, with advanced design capabilities. Our strategic alliance with landscapers, graphic designers allowed us to extend our range of services by integrated in the project brand identity, landscape design. With office located in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), we aim to cover the entire Vietnam and South East Asia.
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