Urban Interiorities is a project by
Virginia Melnyk and Tiffany Dahlen, regent graduates of the
University of Pennsylvania School of Design.
Working closely with Professor Ali Rahim, the students developed a “new
approach to the night club experience” through novel modeling and
rendering techniques, whereby generated surfaces—billowing, crenulated,
orchid-like—exert intense visualizations of sensations.
Designed for a site situated at the buffer space between the trendy, youth-driven culture of Harajuku and the haute-couture of
Omontesando,
the night club merges both the youthful and luxurious into slick,
mediated spaces. The club’s equally diverse program consists of an entry
area, sushi restaurant, a sake bar, music lounge, and VIP rooms.
The volume of the club is a milky white frame with a curious mix of
areas on the interior: “sticky” and “sweet,” “pillowy,” and even
“fibrous.” Movement through the club yields extremes of achingly
synthetic notions of taste.
Aware of the ubiquity of swelling organic forms among students and
practices alike, Melnyk and Dahlen did not stop at these heavily modeled
zones. Instead, the sequence of programs is specific, provoking varying
states of sensation and subsequent emotional responses as one passes
through the interior spaces.
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