Inspired by Melissa’s Winter 2015 Star Walker collection, a crystalline installation transforms the New York City flagship into an immersive landscape of color and light. Crystals—at once highly ordered and fundamentally primitive—serve as both conceptual reference and formal strategy, producing a form that embraces asymmetry, precision, and variation.

Crystallized is composed of a complex aluminum framework clad in dichroic acrylic. As visitors move through the store, the surface shifts in color and reflectivity, responding to angle, proximity, and light. The irregular geometry amplifies these effects, turning the interior into an active visual field rather than a neutral retail backdrop.

Illuminated from within, the structure casts colored light outward onto the white surfaces of the store, using the architecture itself as a canvas. The installation operates simultaneously as sculptural object and luminous lantern, filling the space with an atmosphere that evolves throughout the day and night.

Despite its volumetric presence, the structure remains lightweight. Drawing from principles of crystal growth and soap-bubble geometry, the form appears to have grown organically within the store. It is composed of more than fifty unique cells assembled from over four hundred custom-cut aluminum panels, each beginning as a flat piece and resolving into a complex three-dimensional whole.

Subtle variations in panel angle activate the dichroic acrylic, producing optical interference that causes planes of color to emerge and dissolve like light passing through a natural crystal. Through material, light, and geometry, Crystallized transforms the retail environment into an experiential landscape—reflecting the refined yet elemental spirit of the Star Walker collection.