Brand Strategy May 7, 2025

Sensory Exp.

Transportable structures designed to be assembled, disassembled, and relocated across shifting contexts, these pavilions occupy a liminal space between installation and interior architecture. Rooted in an ethos of adaptability, they challenge the conventional permanence of built form, proposing instead a framework of spatial ephemerality calibrated to brand, location, and experience.

Formally, the architecture is guided by a language of contouring, at once a spatial strategy and a conceptual nod to the world of cosmetic precision. Much like the sculpting of a face, the design maps light and shadow to guide perception and reveal intent. Curved planes in translucent glass and reflective bronze subtly frame movement, while linear luminance defines edges without enclosing them. Walls dissolve into filters, surfaces become gradients.

This dialogue between architectural and cosmetic contouring is not metaphorical, it is performative. Spaces are tuned to the human scale with extreme specificity: a taper in the corridor mirrors the natural narrowing of the field of vision; the curvature of display surfaces softens the path of circulation; subtle floor gradients shift underfoot to create a sensory cue for transition.

The spatial user experience is choreographed with the same attention as a digital interface. Pathways respond to instinctual navigation, eliminating dead zones and cognitive friction. Lighting is layered to enhance surface textures and reflection, allowing products to sit within halos of controlled illumination. Acoustic dampening zones and scent infusion points are embedded discreetly into the architecture, crafting a full-spectrum experience of sound, smell, temperature, and light.

These pavilions are designed to reimagine the showroom as a temporal landscape of gesture and encounter, where material, body, and brand converge through calibrated sensory design. Here, architecture becomes an extension of beauty’s ritual logic, mobile, exacting, and inherently human.

Task

Embody a multi-disciplinary approach to contouring, where design, craftsmanship, and storytelling converge across fashion and beauty.

  • Strategy

    Temporal Architecture

  • Design

    Nomadic Pavilions

  • Client

    Private

  • Design Director

    O Journal

  • Project Location

    UK

  • Industry

    Fashion & Beauty

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