* 시간의 흔적을 드러내고, 색으로 층을 잇다 [ I IN ] Andersson Bell Tokyo Flagship

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“거침과 광택, 투박함과 화려함” — I IN

Andersson Bell’s Flagship Tokyo Store Makes a Case for Beauty in Contrast


콘크리트의 흔적을 지우지 않은 매장
도쿄 아오야마의 앤더슨벨 플래그십은 1990년대 콘크리트 건물에 들어섰다. 서울에서 출발한 브랜드의 첫 일본 매장이다. 설계를 맡은 I IN은 얼룩과 천공, 시공 자국이 남은 골조 앞에 선명한 색과 매끈한 금속, 둥근 진열물을 놓았다. 기존 건물은 새 인테리어의 배경으로 물러서지 않는다. 서로 다른 표면이 맞닿을 때마다 오히려 더 또렷하게 드러난다.

거리에서 시작되는 대비
유리 전면 너머로 지상층과 지하가 함께 보인다. 붉은 사각 틀은 지상층을 크게 감싸며, 안쪽의 전시 장면을 거리로 끌어낸다. 문턱을 지나면 붉은색 계열의 마이크로시멘트 바닥이 안쪽까지 이어진다. 그 위에 검은색과 주황색 유광 띠를 겹친 둥근 진열대가 놓여 있다. 콘크리트의 직선과 가구의 곡선이 가까이 마주하면서, 매장은 첫 장면부터 브랜드가 즐겨 쓰는 이질적 결합을 공간으로 보여준다.

벽을 따라 이어지는 크롬 파이프는 모서리에서 방향을 바꾼다. 옷을 거는 레일이자 조명 요소인 이 선은 거친 벽 위에 정밀한 윤곽을 그린다. 거울은 옷과 골조를 다시 비추어 표면 사이의 거리를 흔든다. 새 요소를 얼마나 많이 더했는가보다, 서로의 차이를 얼마나 선명하게 읽게 하는가가 이 공간의 관건이다.

층을 잇는 붉은 빛
지하에서 붉은색은 바닥 마감이 아니라 빛으로 바뀐다. 아래에서 빛나는 유리 바닥이 가운데 보행선을 만들고, 양옆의 어두운 금속 프레임이 방향을 잡는다. 머리 위에는 가늘고 긴 조명 요소가 반복돼 걸음을 따라 리듬을 만든다. 의류는 노출 콘크리트 벽 앞에 성기게 걸려 있어, 빛나는 바닥과 옷이 각각 읽힌다.

층간 개구부에서는 아래쪽의 붉은 빛과 위쪽의 다른 색이 한 시야에 겹친다. 계단을 오르내릴 때 골조의 두께도 함께 드러난다. 세 층을 단일한 색으로 통일하지 않으면서도 하나의 매장으로 느끼게 하는 장치다. 다만 공개된 사진과 설명만으로 실제 방문자의 이동 경로와 체류 방식까지 확정할 수는 없다.

노란 상층, 다시 드러나는 골조
상층에서는 카나리아색 노랑이 붉은색을 대신한다. 마이크로시멘트 바닥은 창가에서 위로 말려 올라가 낮은 진열대와 계단형 플랫폼, 벤치처럼 쓰이는 면을 이룬다. 중앙의 둥근 진열물과 둘레의 크롬 레일은 아래층에서 보았던 어휘를 잇는다. 큰 창과 층간 개구부에서 들어오는 빛 덕분에 콘크리트의 얼룩과 노란 바닥은 한층 밝게 읽힌다.

이 매장의 성과는 대비를 사진 한 장의 효과에 머물게 하지 않는 데 있다. 거리의 붉은 문턱, 지하의 발광 바닥, 상층의 노란 진열면은 각각 다른 일을 하면서도 기존 골조를 공통의 기준으로 삼는다. 설계자가 말하는 도쿄와 서울의 문화적 만남은 공간의 특정 형태에 일대일로 대응하지 않는다. 대신 오래된 건물과 새로운 브랜드가 서로의 차이를 유지한 채 한 장소를 점유하는 방식에서 설득력을 얻는다. 강한 색과 반사가 실제 쇼핑의 편안함에 어떤 영향을 주는지는 운영 자료가 있어야 판단할 수 있다.

프로젝트: 앤더슨벨 도쿄 플래그십 / Andersson Bell Tokyo Flagship
설계: I IN
위치: 일본 도쿄 아오야마
규모: 지하·지상층·상층, 3개 층 / 면적·정확한 준공연도 미공개
사진: Tomooki Kengaku

Write by Claude & Jean Browwn



Located in Tokyo’s upscale Aoyama district, Seoul based fashion brand Andersson Bell’s first Japanese flagship takes over a 1990s Brutalist building, turning the existing concrete shell into an immersive study in contrast. Designed by Tokyo-based studio I IN, the store is an apt architectural expression of a brand founded on the collision of different references: creative director Dohun Kim launched Andersson Bell in Seoul in 2014 by filtering Scandinavian influences through a Korean perspective, and has since broadened that premise into a wider cross-cultural vocabulary. Rather than softening the building’s roughness, I IN amplifies it, setting curvaceous forms, vivid colour and glossy surfaces against concrete marked by age and previous use.

Unfolding across three levels, the store announces itself through a large glazed façade that exposes both the ground floor and the level below to passers-by, with the former dramatically framed by a vivid red portal like threshold. Inside, the colour continues across carpet-like microcement flooring that extends deep into the ground level, set against the building’s exposed structure, where visible drill holes, stains and construction marks give the interior a deliberately unfinished character.

At the centre, a display counter composed of stacked, kidney shaped volumes in glossy black and orange lacquer introduces softer geometries into the rectilinear space, as does the chrome pipework tracing the perimeter, bending around corners and doubling as lighting elements and clothing rails. Mirrored surfaces further sharpen the contrast between the existing shell and I IN’s more precise interventions, while openings through the floor create long sightlines between levels, establishing the store as a vertically continuous interior rather than three discrete floors.

Red also animates the basement, but here it shifts from surface treatment to illumination. An expansive glass floor glowing from below transforms the central circulation route into a catwalk like spine, flanked by dark metal railings that emphasise its linearity. Overhead, a sequence of slender illuminated barrel vaults introduces a strong horizontal rhythm, further reinforcing the sense of procession. Crucially, the basement’s red glow remains visible from the floors above, turning colour into a device for visually binding the different levels together.

Upstairs, canary yellow replaces red, bringing a brighter, almost graphic quality to the top floor. It appears most prominently in the carpet like microcement finish, which spreads across the floor before curling upwards to form low counters, stepped platforms and bench-like display surfaces along the windows. As on the ground floor, chrome rails round the perimeter, while a sculptural central display composed of stacked, rounded forms softens the concrete shell. Large windows and openings through the floor and ceiling draw daylight deep into the space, giving this level a noticeably lighter, more open atmosphere.

Despite the strong shifts in colour, the three levels are held together by a consistent vocabulary of exposed concrete, reflective metal, minimal detailing and carefully staged views. The designers describe the project through oppositions: “rawness and sheen, ruggedness and glamour”, a logic closely aligned with Andersson Bell’s own fascination with combining seemingly incompatible cultural and stylistic references. They also frame the store as an encounter between the cultural energy of 1990s Tokyo and the contemporary creative sensibility of Seoul. The result is a flagship that embodies the brand’s taste for productive friction while creating a spatial dialogue between the two cities.

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