LV Chengdu

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Located in Dashilar Community, the Beijing-based design brand dot Make has opened a pop-up store which integrates homeware retail with live-making experience. The dot Make Store is in Quan-ye-chang, a historical building which dates back to the 1920s. This building was the very first shopping mall in Beijing and has been carefully renovated during the past decade.

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▼ 。The furniture combines traditional craftsmanship with modern technology.

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dot Make is set up by dot Architects, which is an architectural design studio. dot Make endeavors to build a lifestyle that incorporate making into living, and simplify the customization of homeware and furniture with the aid of design and digital fabrication. dot Architects has designed this pop-up store. The store includes displays of dot Make’s ready-made furniture, customisable furniture that could be fabricated by Kuka robot and 3d printer on demand, and ready-to-assemble-furniture-kits that customer can enjoy the woodworking process by self-making. The dot Make store also presents a selection of homeware design brands focused on digital fabrication and handmaking, including Openmake and Xuberance.

▼ ， 。Display space where people could watch the working process of Kuta robot

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A Kuka robot station stands in the center of the dot Make Store. Visitors will be able to select and fabricate a coat rack on the spot. With the design concept of tree branching, this coat rack could be customised by varying the branchlets’ location, angle and length, therefore, each coat rack could be unique. The Kuka robot then processes the raw material according to the user’s input. The trunk of the coat rack is make up of two wood sticks which are joined by a tenon and mortise work. The Kuka robot is able to machine all the branching joints and the main tenon-mortise joint in one operation.

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On one side of the Kuka robot station is the live furniture-making section. On the other side is the homeware retail section.

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▼ ，furniture live making section

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There are several 3d printers at the entrance of the live making section. Anyone could access these printers via wifi and customize the pattern and content using an app designed for the 3d printer. After the order is paid online these 3d printers would make decorative items and gadgets with the input of user-defined content. For example, a touch light which projects a customized image on the wall, or a ring with user’s name on it.

▼ ， 。3d printer at the entrance of the live making section, with which visitors could make custom made gadgets.

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A woodworking table with several woodworking machines offer hands-on tutorials on how to make furniture on the spot. dot Make provides semi-finished-furniture-kits which have been fabricated by CNC machine beforehand. Anyone with or without woodworking skills could experience the making process in a short period of time.

▼ ， 。Traditional wood workspace where people could make furniture themselves with the help of CNC machine.

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The retail section includes displays of dot Make’s own furniture and a collection of homeware design brands. These products are either digitally fabricated or handcrafted. They are presented on the tables of Openmake, which is a collaborated company between the British start-up Opendesk and the influential Chinese SNS provider Douban.

▼ ， 。Diagram descriptions of the furniture enhance interaction with visitors.

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The Dashilar Community is one of Beijing’s most original historic quarters, and has been regarded as a successful case of urban revitalization. Now there is a great design culture and community of design enthusiasts, mixed with local hutong residents. The information and feedback collected from this pop-up store would help dot Make with its plans for further business development in the future.

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