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Beds // Store Planning
Bedroom department of IKEA Siyuanqiao, Beijing: bed frames, a mattress hall and a sleep experience centre on one one-way aisle.
- 01 Final designAbout 808 m², cross-shaped · slatted Sleep Experience Centre as the landmark.Chapter 01 →
- 02 PurposeLead customers through the bedroom department of IKEA Siyuanqiao in one direction, with no dead ends.Chapter 03 →
- 03 Process1 main aisle, 2.5 × about 47 m · bed frames as open room sets on 3 sides · mattress hall beside the route.Chapter 01 →
- Year
- 2024
- Type
- Store planning, IKEA China · bedroom department
- Role
- Member of the remodel team, IKEA China Interior Design team
- Site
- IKEA Siyuanqiao, Beijing, China
- Scope
- About 808 m² · 42 × 27 m
- Tools
- SketchUp · Blender (Cycles)
- Status
- Professional project · IKEA China, Interior Design team, Beijing
- Shows
- Store planning for a whole department, customer route and zoning, a long run of room sets, rendered plan and sections
In short
- Area
- About 808 m² on a cross-shaped floor
- Route
- One main aisle: 2.5 m wide, about 47 m long, west entrance to east exit, no dead ends
- Bed frames
- Rows of open room sets on three sides, 8–12.5 m deep
- Mattress hall
- 13 × 17 m of test beds beside the route
- Landmark
- Slatted Sleep Experience Centre at the hall entrance
- Sightlines
- Partitions stop at +3.15 m under an open soffit
- My part
- One of the team behind this remodel, IKEA China Interior Design team
01 Design
Room sets along the aisle, the mattress hall beside it.
Two decisions shape the department: how the beds are shown, and where mattresses are tried.
Step 01 / 04
A run of complete bedrooms
- Bed frames
- Rows of open room sets on three sides, 8–12.5 m deep
- Reading
- Each bed seen as a complete bedroom
- Offers
- Red price signs
- Decision
- Show beds as whole rooms
- Why
- A bed is easier to choose in a room than in a row
- Result
- Room sets 8 to 12.5 m deep along the aisle
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Step 02 / 04
Trying a mattress off the route
- Mattress hall
- 13 × 17 m of test beds on a light floor
- Pricing
- An acrylic stand per bed
- Service
- A counter for advice and orders
- Entrance
- The Sleep Experience Centre
- Decision
- Put the mattress hall beside the aisle
- Why
- Testing beds should never block the flow
- Result
- A 13 × 17 m hall at the centre of the cross
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02 Drawings
Partitions stop under an open soffit, so the whole department stays in view.
Two sections cross the department and run along the aisle.
Step 03 / 04
Sections
- A–A
- South wall → aisle → mattress hall
- B–B
- Along the aisle, looking north into the hall
- Partitions
- Stop at +3.15 m
- Decision
- Keep partitions low
- Why
- Customers should see across the department
- Result
- Partitions stop at +3.15 m under an open soffit
03 Brief
One department, one direction.
- Area
- About 808 m², cross-shaped
- Entry
- West
- Exit
- East
Step 04 / 04
The department from above
- Main aisle
- West to east, passing every zone once
- Mattress hall
- Centre of the cross, beside the route
- Decision
- One aisle through the whole department
- Why
- Customers should never meet a dead end
- Result
- Every zone is passed once, in order
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Credits
- Model
- Store-planning SketchUp model, IKEA China Interior Design team, Beijing
- Visuals and drawings
- From the model in Blender Cycles, CC0 textures from Poly Haven and ambientCG
- Assumed for the visuals
- Floor finish, dark open soffit, linear lighting (the base building is not in the model)
- Trademarks
- IKEA product names belong to Inter IKEA Systems B.V.
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