We renovated the concept store of ANZHI to promote its brand identity. The store is located on the top floor of an industrial warehouse at M50 Creative Park of Shanghai. It is designed to showcase the Buddhist shrines and related souvenirs, and to enclose the interactive art installation – "Space" , by the artist Lin Wanshan. Therefore, the space functions both as a retail exhibition space and a place to settle the spirit.
The store’s architectural concept starts from the center of a circle, which is slightly deviates from the true geometric center of the building space. From the center, rings of concentric circles rise the one out of the other, propagating themselves like waves. After intricate calculation, the original two steel pillars of the industrial building are aligned at one ring of the circles. The arch between the pillar becomes a semi-transparent wall that divides the space into different sizes of spaces for shrine exhibition. Several parts of the old arch stairs are deliberately preserved, as they bounce into the newly generated centric circles, presenting the collision of the new and the old.
