Change Room Cocoons at Dover Street Market Ginza – Tokyo
Addicted To Retail (ATR) presents: Change Room Cocoons by Patkau Architects for Dover Street Market Ginza.
Throughout the new six-storey Dover Street Market shop in Ginza, Tokyo, shoppers are constantly confronted by site-specific designs and installations interspersed through the shop.
One such example – hailing from Canada – was designed by Vancouver-based Patkau Architects. Using their pre-existing skating shelter cocoons as an inspiration, the architects replaced the wood with stainless steel to meet fire codes for indoor use.
Each Cocoon structure, says architect John Patkau, is made like a piece of clothing. It begins with three pattern-cut steel sheets which are bent into the curving form. Seams and spines are folded and reinforced with seven gauge stainless steel plates and fasteners. They are then bounded to a base plate for unity, an added sheer white curtain turns the cocoon into a change room for shoppers to try clothing.
DSMG was created by Rei Kawakubo, fashion designer and founder of Japanese clothing label Comme des Garçons.
*All photos by James Dow
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