先锋书店

Firm： Architectural bureau A4

Type： Commercial › Exhibition Center Cultural › Cultural Center Pavilion Educational › Library Hospitality + Sport › Movie Theater Restaurant

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2015

SIZE： 0 sqft - 1000 sqft

Pioner Bookstore is a multifunctional space suitable for either holding public talks, playing vinyl records or buying literary bestsellers. Practically a bookstore, it resembles more of a center uniting people. Mild and modern interior attracts visitors, brings comfort and creates an atmosphere of partnership. Main principles of the space are air, lightness, module, frame. Base of a module is a transparent square cell of custom framework. The shelves create sculptural compositions of geometrical shape, some of the cubes distinguished or immersed. Compilation of modules varies depending on a particular functional use.

One of the most prominent interior details are light-boxes, filling the shelving modules with cold enclosed light.

Plywood book racks, on the contrary, are of a warm shade, and the combination of both provides a certain contrast to perception of the interior. Certain depth drops in shelving alter lightning and shape, which increases graphic vision of the space.

«The architects were challenged with a difficult task - to rearrange the interior of a bookstore, which has already been here for 6 years, as long as renewed Pioner Cinema theater exists - Mary Nazari, «Pioner» cinema director recalls. The second idea was to provide an immediate impression, as visitors pass the cash register and enter the lobby, that there’s a wonderful bookstore with a vinyl record player and a corner for steady wine tasting. All that worked, sales increased by almost two. Now many people come here just for wine and books and don’t go to movies.»

Photo credit: Ilya Ivanov