Future Systems｜Comme des Garçons New York: Aluminum Tube Entrance on Brick Wall

Future Systems | Comme des Garçons New York: Aluminum Tube Entrance on a Brick Wall
On the facade of an old industrial brick building, there are no alterations whatsoever except for an ordinary old door—no signs, no display windows, looking like an abandoned warehouse from the outside. The gesture lies behind the door: a huge polished aluminum tube pierces through the old wall and bends, requiring people to duck their heads to pass through this metal tunnel to enter the store. The roughness of the old brick contrasts sharply with the smoothness of the aluminum tube, and “the entrance itself is the entire work.” The interior of the tube is a continuous curved surface, seamless, reflecting stretched and distorted images. Shot from the street, showing the old facade and the gleaming metal flashing within the doorway.
Avoid: adding signs or display windows to the exterior wall, renovating or refurbishing the old wall, making the tube straight, not polishing the tube surface.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

在一棟舊工業磚造建築的立面上,除了一道普通的舊門之外完全沒有任何改動——沒有招牌、沒有櫥窗,外面看起來像廢棄的倉庫。門後才是手勢所在:一支巨大的拋光鋁製管道從舊牆中穿出並彎折,人必須低頭穿過這條金屬隧道才能進入店內。舊磚的粗糙與鋁管的光滑形成極端對比,而「入口本身就是整件作品」。管道內部為連續的曲面,沒有接縫,反射被拉伸變形。從街道拍攝舊立面與門洞內閃現的金屬。避免:在外牆加上招牌或櫥窗、舊牆整修翻新、管道改為直線、管道表面不拋光。