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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Optical Store in Lisbon : By Jorge Sousa Santos

Lisbon, Portugal
Jorge Sousa Santos
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado
A new glasses shop in Beja designed by Jorge Sousa Santos, where he used small rotating circular mirrors, that also work as support for the glasses. Now, architecture photographer Joao Morgado shared this optical store in Lisbon, designed by the same architect.
Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado
The main idea developed itself centred in the need to extend the exhibition to the whole area of the space. Since the space was big, and the protagonists of the exhibition are small, we were drived to design an exhibition device that could be extended in the whole surface of the walls. This device draws itself in complex correlation of simple shapes forming a dance of departing and proximity.
Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado
The exhibition elements form a net of vertical and horizontal prisms built in steel MDF and Plexiglas, this later perform itself as a multitasking surface. If is horizontal and faced upwards, it is an area for the lodging of the eyeglasses, if it is vertical is the support of the classical nose hold, if it is horizontal and faced downwards it is a lamp.
Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado
The notion of movement is immersed in all the elements that compose the store, the desks for private consulting, the counters, the cabinets. They exist in a suspended movement state, similar to the wall exhibition support.
Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado
The notion of unity, and continuity are rooted in the design of the entire space. This notion of unity is achieved not only with the forms of the objects that produce a kind of mnemonic osmosis, but also with the materials, particularly the dark wood floor, that spreads itself in a state of absolute continuity.
Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado
Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado

Photo © Courtesy of Joao Morgado
floor plans--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos

sections 01--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos

sections 02--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos

detail 01--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos

detail 02--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos

detail 03--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos

detail 04--drawing Courtesy of Jorge Sousa Santos
The people
Interior designer: Jorge Sousa Santos
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Client: Private
Photographs: Joao Morgado
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