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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. Troquer Fashion House in Polanco, Mexico by Zeller & MoyeMarch 25th, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Zeller & Moye The new home for the online retail company Troquer is located in central Mexico City’s Polanco area. An existing residence has been transformed into a fashion house comprising a walk able storage-on-view area on the ground floor and a photo studio with head office and working spaces on the upper floor.  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully
 Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully With the exterior painted in matt black colour there is neither a grand entrance nor even a view in from the outside. Only a small cluster of golden poles behind the garage windows give a preview of the interior space. Visitors need to ring the bell as if visiting someone’s home. Only then the introverted space that is otherwise hidden from the street life opens up as a fashion warehouse made of a multilayer metal rack that fills up the entire ground floor.  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully Interlacing, stacking and linking extruded metal profiles produce a playful lattice of verticals and horizontals that build up to a complex three-dimensional framework of varying density. Golden anodized aluminium bars come together cross ways to an orthogonal free-standing grid that reacts to the existing space it inhabites by wrapping around walls and filling in corners. The continuous structure connects various spaces with each other, alternating between dense patterns in some areas and sparse clusters in others. Thin golden plates rest on the grid at various heights providing shelves for bags, shoes or accessories. All horizontal bars double up as rails for clothing offering unlimited possibilities for fashion items to be presented. Ever changing display arrangements can be realised within this flexible grid allowing for different impressions ranging from densely hung storage-on-view to exclusive single presentations. A robust but soft black industrial rubber floor ties together all rooms to one continuous area and provides a consistent visual background for the display. Dresses are presented on custom-made golden hangers and illuminated by vertical light bars especially designed for the space. The warehouse space overlooks a small patio, which is densely vegetated around an old tree.  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Moritz Bernoully  Image Courtesy © Zeller & Moye  Image Courtesy © Zeller & Moye Zeller & Moye Profile Zeller & Moye was founded by Christoph Zeller and Ingrid Moye as an architectural studio that operates with an interdisciplinary and global approach, with bases in Mexico City and Berlin. Zeller & Moye has designed a wide range of projects at all scales from furniture design to large cultural buildings in different parts of the world. Christoph Zeller and Ingrid Moye worked several years for international practices SANAA and Herzog & de Meuron, leading numerous projects such as the ‘Tate Modern Project’ and the ‘Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012’. Christoph Zeller and Ingrid Moye teach at the AA Visiting Schools Berlin and Mexico, a master class in urban studies at the UIA Mexico City and have been jury members, lecturers and guest critics at various universities.
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