HAIR

Hair salons are spaces of connection and community that play an important role in many people’s lives. The history of the salon environment and its attendant hair services and rituals intersects with issues of gender, sexuality, class and race. This studio looks to the experiences of salon professionals, and recent research on the social, political, cultural and economic dimensions of hair salons in order to re-imagine the architecture of the hair industry through a single project, developed across three scales: the workstation, the building and the precinct.

The studio explores an expanded salon program of commercial, educational and public spaces as a mixed-use building, embedded within the infrastructural networks of the surrounding urban precinct.

Studio Leaders: Alex Brown