Wutopia Lab

The Miro Store of Duoyun Bookstore, Dream La Miro, Jiangsu, China

中國江蘇　朵雲書院米羅店

Wutopia Lab｜Wutopia Lab 建築師事務所

Fairytale

The client showed me the IP they had introduced, namely the three animated films created by Italian artist Cristina Làstrego: Mirò the Cat, The Circus, and The Creation, I was moved by the magnificent scenes and the imagination created by the artist. I thought it would be possible to create a fairy tale bookstore like never before, using the origin of life as a base inspiration combined with elements from the other two animations.

童話

設計師看了委託方引進的 IP，即義大利藝術家 Cristina Làstrego 創作的三部動畫片：《小貓米羅》；《森林馬戲團》；《生命的起源》，被藝術家所創造的華麗場景以及想像力所打動，於是以《生命的起源》作為基礎靈感，結合其他兩部動畫片的要素打造了一個前所未有的童話書店。

Boat

I chose the ark as the theme, with the yellow outside and red inside sailing ship docked in the harbour of the book sea. All the fairy tales about the Miro store of Duoyun Bookstore start from here.

船

設計師選擇了方舟作為入口的主題，外黃內紅的航船停靠在書海的港口。所有關於朵雲書院米羅店的童話都是由此開始。

Babel

I persuaded the client to include the octagonal tower, which was not originally included in the design. By the time I had followed the idea of the ark, the symbolism of this tower stood out. It is the lighthouse that stands in the harbor. I designed the lighthouse as a library-like book tower. When I was a child I always thought that behind the bookshelves there was a world like Narnia. At the center of the tower is a red spiral staircase that connects the two stories of the white book tower. As readers slowly walk up to the first floor and look up to the center of the sloping roof, they will notice the sun squeezing into the roof. Everything in the room starts with the sun.

巴別塔

設計師把原來不在設計範圍裡的八邊形塔樓納入進來。方舟的構思後，這個塔樓的象徵意義就脫穎而出，它就是矗立在港灣的燈塔。設計師把燈塔設計成圖書館一樣的書塔，因為小時候總認為書架背後藏著像納尼亞一樣的世界。書塔的中心是紅色的螺旋樓梯，將兩層白色書塔貫穿聯繫起來。當讀者緩緩走上二層並抬頭看向坡屋頂中心，他們會注意到擠入屋頂的太陽，房間裡的萬物便從太陽開始。

Forest

Stepping out of the white Skylight Book Tower is an abstract black forest. A sparse arrangement of black metal rods supports the partially hollowed-out dark metal roof. When the sun shines directly, the light weaves through the green gaps and the black ground emerges in shimmering patches of light, as if in a forest. At the end of the corridor is a cloud gate, a symbol identified at the Huangshan store of Duoyun Bookstore. Meanwhile, visitors will also catch the vision of the moon in the cloud gate. It corresponds to the very sun at the top of the Skylight Book Tower.

森林

走出白色天光書塔，便是一個抽象的黑色森林。一根根疏密排列的黑色金屬杆支撐著黑色鏤空金屬頂。當陽光直射時，光穿梭於綠隙，黑色地面呈現出點點晃晃的光斑，仿佛林間。廊道的盡頭是一朵雲門，一個在朵雲書院黃岩店的符號。同時在雲門中還會看到月亮，它對應著的正是天光書塔頂部的太陽。

Cloud

Behind the Cloud Gate is the cloud-themed family-friendly area, the Cloud Terrace Cafe. We wrapped a layered, interlocking floating platform with a transition from white gradient perforated aluminum panels to brushed stainless steel on the entire surface. The reader feels as if they are walking through the clouds and resting among them. Here I insisted on using silver and white to create a quiet and private atmosphere. This is because I want to give the reader a moment of peace before they pass through another cloud door.

雲

雲門背後是以雲為主題的親子區域——雲台咖啡。設計師用白色漸變穿孔鋁板過渡到整面的拉絲不銹鋼包裹出一個層層迭迭，環環相扣的漂浮雲台，讀者仿佛在雲中漫步又如在雲中休憩。為了讓讀者在穿越另一道雲門前能暫時平靜心情，設計師堅持用銀色和白色塑造一個安靜和私密的空間。

Ocean, the origin of creation

The main part of the Miro store of Duoyun Bookstore is the drawing library on the first floor. Since I am particularly fascinated by the idea of separating contiguous rooms within each other to form a type of house within a house under a complete large space, I divided the picture books into four groups according to theme into different individual huts. Inspired by The Creation, I used different levels of blue to turn the whole drawing library into an ocean. Four of the animals from The Creation, sea creatures, amphibians, birds, and mammals, were selected and abstracted to form the animal-shaped entrances of the huts. The different holes combined with the different coloured perforated aluminum panels form the different facades of the huts, while the inside of the huts is uniformly white. After all, no matter how noisy it is, reading needs to remain quiet.

海洋，萬物起源

朵雲書院米羅店的主體是位於二樓的繪本館。設計師特別著迷把連續緊挨的房間分開，形成屋中屋，所以她把繪本按照主題分成四組裝入不同的獨立小屋裡。基於《生命的起源》的啟發，設計師用不同層次的藍色把整個繪本館變成海洋。然後從動畫裡出現過的海洋生物、兩棲動物、鳥類和哺乳動物中各選擇了四個動物，抽象化後作為入口的造型。不同的洞口結合不同顏色的穿孔鋁板形成了獨立屋不同的外立面，而獨立屋裡面則是統一的白色，畢竟無論如何喧鬧，看書還是需要安靜。

Circus on the Stars

There is a striking red perforated aluminum panel tent on the terrace outside the drawing library. Visitors can notice the flaming tent as they enter from the town square. The tent comes from two sources, The Circus and the red flying house on the roof of the Anaya children's restaurant designed by Wutopia lab five years ago. The carousel in the tent is the recurring symbol of Wutopia lab's designs about children and dreams, representing a kind of adult childlike spirit that Wutopia lab insists on preserving. When night comes, the fluorite floor, which absorbs daylight, shines like a starry sky. We call this the Star Garden.

星空上的馬戲團

繪本館外的平臺有一個醒目的紅色穿孔鋁板帳篷。遊客從小鎮廣場進來就可以注意到這個火焰般的帳篷。帳篷有兩個來源：《森林馬戲團》和 5 年前 Wutopia lab 設計的阿那亞兒童餐廳屋頂上的紅色飛屋。帳篷裡的旋轉木馬是反復出現在 Wutopia lab 設計的關於兒童和夢境的符號，代表了 Wutopia lab 一種堅持保有的成年童心。夜晚來臨，白天吸收日光的螢石地板會如星空閃閃發光，設計師稱之為星空花園。

Eden in the Golden Mountains

I created rolling 'mountains' with gold perforated aluminum panels on the roof of the drawing library, and a glass house with a wave-tossed ceiling hidden inside the gold mountain. This multi-purpose hall, named the Aozora Lecture Hall, can be used for exhibitions, roadshows, book signings, dinners, and parties. However, what I actually want is someone to contemplate unattached in a plain box inside the brilliant gold, and this moment is my Eden.

金山裡的伊甸園

繪本館的屋頂用金色穿孔鋁板帷幕創造了連綿的「群山」，在金山裡面則藏著一個有海浪翻滾天花的玻璃屋。這個被命名為青空講堂的多功能廳，可以展覽、路演、簽售、聚餐和派對。又或者，在外表輝煌的樸素盒子裡毫無牽掛地沉思，這時候，就是獨屬於一人的伊甸園。

Break Through the Adults' Stereotype

I didn't want to make a mere interior design. Fairy tales gave me ample reason. The tent, ark, mountain, and forest all became means by which I tried to break out of the European style façade. I took a part of a separate hut through the wall and turned it into a balcony on the façade, its hole being the silhouette of the head of Miro cat. The reader in the cat's head seems to have been transformed into fairy at some point. And the original European-style façade thus looks unreal but real. This is the fairy tale.

突破大人的成見

設計師不想只做單純的室內設計。童話給了她充分的理由，帳篷、方舟、群山、森林都成為她試圖突破歐洲風情立面的手段。獨立屋的一小部分穿過牆壁，形成一個陽臺，它的洞口是米羅貓的頭像輪廓。在貓頭裡的讀者仿佛在某個時刻變成了精靈，而原來的歐洲風情看似不真實，卻是真實存在的。這就是童話。