12 meter cantilevered display shelves for JINS by Junya Ishigami

Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has recently completed a masterful feat of structural engineering.

Shanghai JINS by Junya Ishigami. Photograph by Eiichi Kano, courtesy of JINS

Junya Ishigami has designed a concrete cantilevered display shelves that are up to 12-meters long (39-feet) long, for Tokyo-based eyeware brand JINS, who have opened their first branch in Shanghai. The shop is located on the 2nd floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center (SWFC).

In order to create a void space instead of crowded one like other shops, Ishigami has articulated the interior space around 5 cantilevered tables. Two shorter shelves for customer assistance round out the shop, which is beautifully minimalist yet impactful. With extreme dimensions, maximum length, minimum width and depth, the solution ensure the maximum linear display and circulation for customers.

The founder of JINS is known to be a patron of the arts, and has a history of proactively commissioning artists and architects to create unique spaces for the brand’s shops.

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Junya Ishigami. Junya.Ishigami+associates.

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Structure

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Jun Sato Structural Engineers (Structural Concept)
Person in charge.- Jun Sato

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Cing Lu, Akira Uchimura

Junya Ishigami

Junya Ishigami, born in Tokyo, Japan (1974). Education: 1994 - 1998 Musashi Institute of Technology.  1998 - 2000 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

Professional experience:  2000 - 2004 Kazuyo Sejima + Associates.  In 2004 he set up his own firm, "Junya Ishigami + Associates". Junya Ishigami questions common understanding of architecture. This allows him to create things beyond trends, established principles and definitions, develop new structures, new spaces and organize the environment differently. He hopes his projects will be able to change the lifestyle of modern architecture radically and fill it with new values.

Main projects:  Table. Tokyo, Japan, 2005 T. project. (First prize in residential architecture project sponsored by the Tokyo Electric Power Company). Tokyo, Japan, 2005  Balloon. Tokyo, Japan, 2007 Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT kobo. Kanagawa, Japan, 2008 Yohji Yamamoto New York Gansevoort street store, NY, USA, 2008.

Main awards:  “low chair and round table” were acquired by the Pompidou Centre. Milan, Italy, 2004,  SD Prize for “small garden of row house”. Japan, 2005,  Kirin Prize for “Table” . Tokyo , Japan, 2005,  First prize in residential architecture project for “t project”. Tokyo, Japan, 2005,  “Table” shown at the Basel Art Fair by Gallery Koyanagi in 2006 and acquired by the Israel Museum. Basel , Swiss, 2006.