Location: Beijing city, China
Scope: Interiors
Type: New building
Total floor area: 604㎡
Max height: -
Design: 2018
Completion: 6/2019
Photography: Arch-Exist Photography
Awards
KUKAN Design Awards, Selected work,
Tokyo, Japan, 2020
Jintang Prize, Honorable office design of the year, Shenzhen, China, 2020
Descriptions
This project locates in
a commercial high-rise building; the client is an international trades company.
The site consists of the office zone, public exhibition hall, twilight
corridor, and nature courtyard, which have a layout from west to east. We concentrate
on the mental feelings and the method of releasing stress in the workplace. As
a result, we have anticipation to suppose a design trend for the future
workplace.
How to deal with the
negative pressures in office?
At the office,
creations, exports, and appreciation is usually a positive reward, in actually,
the negative influences and emotions encounter with us. We do design for
dissolved these terrible feelings. In contemporary society, live in the heavy
density of space, the high-speed mode, and abundant informational energy,
facing all these complicated circumstances, we try to release or transform
these anxieties. In light of the common routines, people prefer to choosing an
extraordinary lifestyle inversely and tending to a comfortable status. Thus,
when the ordinary and extraordinary scene exists correspondingly, there allowed
releasing the negative pressures.
Whispers in a public exhibition
hall
The public exhibition
hall is the first sight once entering. There is a definite difference in the
office zone and an extraordinary open exhibition hall. In this hall, including
two scales of meeting rooms, pantry, dress room, and a live stream room, five
functional volumes. The inspiration originated from the trades communication,
which contains an exchange of products, the broadcasts of cultures. Therefore,
the concept developed on a prototype of a concrete exhibition hall. No entrance
face to the exhibition hall, where we situate a bench and exhibit several artworks.
The texture of concrete creates the scenery of the museum. It just likes you
are in a real museum, and people become the host in this place. Simplified
structure, façade, and grey walls in lines generated a tranquil space; minimal
interior reset the complex emotions and back to origins. It is spotless in the
exhibition hall, where it forms a space for encountering, whispering,
meditating, and feeling a sense of belongings.
Wanders in the nature
courtyard
As an expansion of an
extraordinary life, the mental freedoms could appear in the exhibition hall,
whereas, the typology of behaviors, manners in communication, and social
activities would occur in the nature courtyard. The leisure bar, multiple
meeting rooms, financial office, tea house, and president office sequentially
posited in the nature courtyard, which floor is full of gravel. Natural and
scattered gravels make space available to roaming. The multi-function meeting
room isolated from the gravels pool, which is entirely enveloped by the timber
grilles and owns only one entrance route. When close or open the gratings door,
the meeting room could switch to a multiple-stage. This place highlights social
relations. The tea house is a comfortable semi-public space; gratings stand in
two sides. The grilles balance translucency and privacy. The primary way
throughout the courtyard zone from north to south, broaden the views; the VIP
entrance look likes a branch accessed to the natural route.
Traverses and stays on
the twilight corridor
The western area faces
to the fabulous urban scenery; the narrow, long, and perspective grilles
corridor is posited here, which is the only passage between the public
exhibition hall and the nature courtyard. We especially expand this corridor to
the edge of the site in a long distance. The gratings along with the glass
façade of the building blur the city landscapes outside of the windows,
balancing the cold and solid glass steel structure with the warm and harmony
timber gratings, filtering the natural lightings into interiors. At twilight,
the sunlight showers in the corridor and sculpts a line and line shadows on the
floor; with the original natural elements and the flows of time, passing
through the passage became a ritual process and particular experiences. The
twilight corridor reflects spiritual meanings and philosophy thinking,
throughout there, which brings a delicate and impressive sense. Catching lights
and shadows, walking and staying, the corridor rewards to the recovers of
spirits. Interestingly, the long corridor stimulates the curiosity of guests
and pushes them forward to the end of the passage and creates imagination in an
unpredictable space.
Project credits
Clients: Hyperion
International Group
Architects: PLAT ASIA
Principle architect: DH
Jung
Project architect:
Guowei Liu
Design team: Jingyun
Lian, Dongsheng Xiao, Xinwei Liu