Ather Space: Redefining The Scooter Buying Experience
Visual Merchandising and Retail Design|January 2020
Bangalore-based electric scooters manufacturer Ather Energy has recently opened its second Experience center in Chennai. Designed by Delhi-based design company Studio Lotus, the 4000 sq ft Ather Space is a complete guide book to Ather Energy’s journey and their milestone products.
Smita Sinha
Ather Space: Redefining The Scooter Buying Experience

Chennai

Experiential offering has emerged to be the key differentiator in creating an edge in the competitive market space. But experience today goes beyond physical aesthetics, it is about an immersive engagement enabled both by design and technology. But how does one create an experiential offering in an automotive showroom in a way that combines interactivity and aesthetics in a seamless flow? Bangalore-based electric scooter manufacturer Ather Energy seems to have cracked the answer.

Founded in 2013 by two IIT Madras alumni Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain, Ather Energy designs and sells electric scooters for the Indian Market. Rather than having dealership showrooms, the company has gone in for Experience Centers, the first of which, spread across 2000sq ft space was inaugurated in Bangalore last year. The company opened its second one at Wallace Garden Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai in July this year. The 4000 sq ft ‘Ather Space’ in Chennai is a complete guide book to Ather Energy’s journey and their milestones products. The center’s design and user experience has been improved based on Ather’s learning from the Bengaluru Ather Space.

Designed by Delhi-based design company Studio Lotus, the second Experience centre of Ather embodies the brand ethos of innovation and dynamism to create a prime feature space for the Ather 450, their marquee product. The Experience centre double folds itself into space where the customers can educate themselves about every aspect of the vehicle and witness the engineering and mechanical efforts that have gone into manufacturing it through a naked scooter which is placed right at the center of the store, with the skeletal structure showcasing the spare parts.

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