GANTRI
Retail + Co-Working Design
Click To Brick
Art District, Los Angeles
“Gantri, from click to brick,that sucessfully illuminates the design process from designer to consumer.”
Gantri retail store founded a platform that illumine the path from designers to consumers of 3D printed light by providing a space where the people can experiment the tangible process of table lamp production. By go through the space, it can be see how a dream come true and get how designer’s blurry ideation to fully developed product. While study up the process of design and learning the design mindset, it will get inspired and encourage you into the design world.
BRAND VALUES
Gantri is a marketplace for original designer lighting. Their lights are created by independent designers around the world. The manufacture using 3D printing and ship directly to customers, making high design more attainable and sustainable. It represents their vision for how premium and original designs can be developed, made and sold using their own digital technologies.
SITE
Art District, Los Angeles
The LA Arts District is a neighborhood on the eastern edge of Downtown Los Angeles, California, United States. The gritty area has given new life to old industrial buildings whose history often dates to the early 20th century. While much of the early creative art was done behind closed doors, the street scene has slowly been activated in the early years of the 21st century as more and more factories are creatively reused with some new construction interspersed.
LOGO DEVELOPMENT
Gantri typeface cut gap persent as crack, which is the place the light can glowing.
FORM
Crystallization
Crystallization, the crystal formed by many pieces layering together. This is related Gantri’s foundation too, which is build a platform that cooperate with different distinct designer and solid their work together. And finally construct a new path that can lead more and more designer and consumer join to Gantri.
Joint of structure
PLAN AND SECTION
Plan
01 Entrance
02 Sketch And 3D print Gallery
03 Lighting Experience Hallway
04 Checkout
05 Storage
06 Co-Working Space
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EXPERIENCE
Facade
Design Gallery / 3D Print Factory
The space is full of the blurry and dimmig light. Walk throught this space could having an “conversation” with different designer. The whole gallery circulated by the sketches that on the intricate wall. When they shuttle back and forth in this space with a feeling of anticipation. After this long narrow and irregular way exploration, They would be feel impressive by a whole wall display the working 3D printer.
Lighting Experience Hallway
Then, people will turn into a dark tunnel hallway.
The walk through experience is the changing
dims light shot in from the opening on the wall.
Co-Working Space
Mezzanine provides “try out” experience. Customer take time to “interacting” with the Gantri’s light or work at here.
MATERIAL SELECTION
01 Chroma Clear
02 PVC Plastic Pipe
03 Matte | SatinTech™ Etched Glass
04 Sensitile White Terrazzo
05 Decorative Laminated Glass
06 Translucent skin of PTFE Foil
07 Stainless Steel Metal
PHYSICAL MODEL
