Hairdresser
Pfarrkirchen
Name
Hairdresser
Client
Monika Friedl
Program
Commercial
Location
Pfarrkirchen
Project
2005
Status
completed
Parcel
–
Area
50 m2
Footprint
50 m2
Just outside the historic city center of the Lower Bavarian district town of Pfarrkirchen is the hair salon Monika Friedl, offering views of the rampart and city wall. The shop is located on the ground floor of a functional, purpose-built building from the 1930s. The color scheme and spatial layout draw inspiration from the planted rampart across the street. The park’s greenery is carried through at the same scale inside the salon. This dialogue between interior and exterior invites interaction between passersby and the hairdresser.
The cramped and awkward existing structure is opened up by color that unites surfaces and a horizontal mirror strip that dissolves spatial boundaries. In the green and white areas, the geometric space appears diffuse; in the mirrored area, it becomes defined. The grid of cables casually subdivides the space into functional zones such as waiting, washing, and cutting areas, a checkout zone, and movement aisles. The lamps, which multiply almost endlessly in the mirrors and display windows, enlarge the perceived space by a factor of six. Project carried out in collaboration with the Munich-based design studio Stauss+Pedrazzini.
