24 Frames of Lightwell is an experiential retail store bringing commerce, fashion, art, and nature together in a renovated 50-year-old building in Taipei. The project offers potential solutions to old walkup-apartment renovation through material selection and subtractive design operation with minimal environmental impacts. The lightweight approach is applied to the entire lightwell and facade for the creation of "24 Frames" that influence the interior environment and magnify how visitors sense the surroundings.
Jasmin Yi-Chu Shih received a master degree of landscape architecture from University of Pennsylvania in the USA and a bachelor degree of architecture from Tamkang University in Taiwan, furthermore spent one year researching in digital architecture in National Chiao Tung University. With rich work experiences in multidisciplinary design and computing project and design-tech teach experience in New York, Shanghai and Taiwan, she is now doing creative multidisciplinary work and research and focusing on combining the new and the old technology as well as design performance.
Located in the central business district of Taipei, LIGHTWELL is the first concept store that combines a fashion select shop with art galleries in Taiwan. With almost three years of preparation and gathered designers, architects, and artists from Taiwan and overseas to collaborate, the place finally launched in May 2020. The goal is to motivate and inspire customers to appreciate fashion and art in their daily lives, and to open more opportunities for cultural communication between Taiwan and abroad.