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Elite Eyecare & Optical
Elite Eyecare & Optical
Jonesboro, AR, United States
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Other Projects by deMx architecture
Elite Eyecare & Optical
Jonesboro, AR, United States
This project, an eye care clinic in Jonesboro, Arkansas, abstracts a conventional object, a pair of eyeglasses, to unconventionally define space used to sell eyeglasses.
Architecture contains function, but it does not often look like its function. This project presents a familiar object as a huge fragment within a mall tenant space. More than merely exaggerating the scale of an object into the size of a building, this project scales up the temple piece and lenses of a pair of eyeglasses to an appropriate use of space. The temple piece profile over the entrance signifies the space’s retail function to passersby in the mall concourse. Another temple piece profile is extruded upward to make a reception counter, and another in section above this counter defines the reception space from above.
Besides rendering an ordinary object out of scale, this project presents dual characteristics of materials. White retail displays (which resemble lenses) are sometimes subtracted from a rich, dark walnut wall, while in other locations, walnut displays are applied to a soft white wall surface. The wood grain on the millwork indicates directionalities in space that are both parallel and perpendicular to the direction of the extruded temple piece profiles. In this way, the image of the eyeglasses exists within a complex relationship between implied directionalities of materials.
This project reconciles economic quantities of healthcare and shopping with spatial qualities involving materials and image. It makes explicit the image of a commodity in the architecture, while remaining unfamiliar.
Architecture contains function, but it does not often look like its function. This project presents a familiar object as a huge fragment within a mall tenant space. More than merely exaggerating the scale of an object into the size of a building, this project scales up the temple piece and lenses of a pair of eyeglasses to an appropriate use of space. The temple piece profile over the entrance signifies the space’s retail function to passersby in the mall concourse. Another temple piece profile is extruded upward to make a reception counter, and another in section above this counter defines the reception space from above.
Besides rendering an ordinary object out of scale, this project presents dual characteristics of materials. White retail displays (which resemble lenses) are sometimes subtracted from a rich, dark walnut wall, while in other locations, walnut displays are applied to a soft white wall surface. The wood grain on the millwork indicates directionalities in space that are both parallel and perpendicular to the direction of the extruded temple piece profiles. In this way, the image of the eyeglasses exists within a complex relationship between implied directionalities of materials.
This project reconciles economic quantities of healthcare and shopping with spatial qualities involving materials and image. It makes explicit the image of a commodity in the architecture, while remaining unfamiliar.
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