AUSTIN, TEXAS
The Austin Salon creates a landscape that is at once a sign and a dynamic installation that can be “styled” and sculpted through seasons and over the years. The landscape creates and inviting environment for salon patrons to view and occupy during their visits. It also acts a sign at the confluence of a busy intersection that is the site of a former gas station. Pre-cast concrete planters dot the perimeter of the site and the entry and are “styled” in a variety of ways to reflect contemporary hairdo’s and catch the attention of passer byes. The salon architecture by Wang Architects creates a series of diffuse screens that act as a new skin for the structure while also emerging as a framework in the landscape to define outdoor terraces around the perimeter of the building.