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Entwurf • Design Salon Alper Derinbogaz, TR-Istanbul
Grundriss Kanyon • Floor plan Kanyon
Grundriss Akasya • Floor plan Akasya
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Bauherr • Client Reflect Studio, TR-Istanbul
Standort • Location TR-Istanbul
Nutzfläche • Floor space 230 m 2
Fotos • Photos Studio Majo, TR-Istanbul
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 134
REFLECT STUDIO STORES
IN ISTANBUL
Is that how the future looks? Two stores in Istanbul
show futuristic tendencies in architecture. With artifi-
cial intelligence, Alper Derinbogaz and Reflect Studio
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turn airplane scrap and fabric remnants into dazzling
new worlds. One can not only buy products here but,
above all, have them repaired. The first commentaries
in the social media sound like a futuristic manifest …
T ime and space have died yesterday. We are already living in the ab-
solute since we have created eternal, omnipresent speed.” With
these words, in 1990 the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti foun-
ded a new movement which makes the relationship between machines
and men the basis of all creation – futurism. He encourages a radical de-
parture from what was yesterday and a bold view into a highly enginee-
red future which has already started. “Tomorrow becomes yesterday in
the blink of an eye”, is likewise a commentary on the opening of the Re-
flect Studio stores in Istanbul that has been posted on Instagram. The
party was held with the futuristic motto: “Portraits from a night in pink
utopia. Who’s feeling optimistic about the future again?”. Reflect Studio
produces articles of merchandise for the environmental protection and
NGOs and, in addition, spacy earrings, eyeglasses, flared trousers and
armchairs with tassels made from garbage. In the social media, the de-
signers promote an optimistic view of a kind of future that – low and be-
hold – has already started! In the focus of their creations is the renewed
relationship between man and nature. For the furnishing of the two new
stores in the Kanyon and Akasya shopping centres, they commissioned
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the architect Alper Derinbogaz who is well-known for his progressive ap-
proaches to design. He creates room concepts and furniture designs with
the help of artificial intelligence. And some of the objects, such as, for
instance, the organically shaped sales counters, he has constructed with
technologies derived from boat building. As gigantic “molars” of silver
and pink, they now stand around like lumps of rock in a surrealistic
dream. Airplane scrap landed out of the past serves as a sitting bench.
Recycled aluminium splinters in terrazzo remind of the wastage of natu-
ral resources as sprinkled confetti does of a past party. The entire setting
is given a hyper-real luminosity and a systemic order by a linear ceiling
grid consisting of programmed light fields. This new kind of interior ar-
chitecture in techno colours intrigues people and gets them in the mood
for a new kind of future that has already begun! Time and space have
died yesterday. We are already living in the absolute.
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