Aesop Rockwell

A traditional dwelling and an icon of Filipino culture, the Bahay Kubo has survived and evolved to this day. What remains a constant are the pragmatic yet inspiring forms conjured by the high-volume organic roofs, horizontal woven cladding, and repetitious stilt footings. Located in Makati City’s Power Plant retail centre, Aesop Rockwell—the brand’s second signature store in the Philippines—echoes this familiar vernacular, turning external characteristics into elements of the space’s internal anatomy and enhancing its domestic qualities. The ceiling is differentiated into high and low zones, forming a hierarchy of experiences—intimate moments at sofa and sink happen at a compact, homely scale, while an expansive display of amber bottles is unveiled under evocatively pitched sections. Product offerings are elevated on banded assemblies of forest-stewardship-certified plywood joinery, which offer modular reuse possibilities. The rising lines of the stilt-like struts draw the eye to the voluminous space above and amplify the strong rectilinearity of the space