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Xiu Shan Reception Center Residential

Xiu Shan Reception Center

With “Living in the Park” as a design concept, the design team has integrated a natural elements into the design to create an easy and open reception center without losing its sense of formality. The lightweight metal roof and straight metal bracket give a clear outline of the space, and since the facade is facing the North, it opens an opportunity to have a great glass visual effect. With a variety of greening methods, from the outside to the inside, the park, outdoor landscaping, indoor vertical gardening, breaking the traditional concept of enclosed serious reception center.

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Aggregate Lamp

Aggregate

Aggregate is a collection of three floor lamps made from recycled and discarded materials. Each lamp is built on a welded skeleton formed from discarded steel scraps. The body is sculpted by hand from a mixture of concrete, silica sand and shredded plastic bottles, applied over a thin alkali-resistant fiber base. The concrete mixture is worked like clay rather than cast in a mould, so each lamp has its own texture and silhouette. LED tube bulbs supply the light, and a step switch at the base turns each lamp on and off. The collection aims to give urban waste a new use.

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25 Nano Ambient Light

25 Nano

25 Nano is an artistic light instrument to represent ephemeral and permanence, birth and death. Working with Spring Pool Glass Industrial CO., LTD, whose vision is building a systematic glass recycle loop for a sustainable future, 25 Nano chose the relatively fragile bubble as a medium in contrast with solid glass to embody the idea. In the instrument, light shimmers through life cycles of the bubble, projecting rainbow-like color and shadows to the environment, creating a dreamy atmosphere around the user.

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Discussion of Space Tea Shop

Discussion of Space

Discussion of Space is a tea shop interior located in Shenzhen, China. The design starts from the most basic form and uses pure white blocks to create a suspended tea space. The blocks are combined horizontally and vertically at different angles, following a modular system based on multiples of fifteen. Gray terrazzo covers the floor and walls and sets off the white shapes. Durable furniture paint, white artificial stone counters and environmentally friendly ceiling paint are used. The modular system can be repeated in stores of different sizes.

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Home in Picture Apartment

Home in Picture

The project is a living space created for a family of four with two kids. The dreamland atmosphere created by the home design comes not only from the fairy tale world created for children, but also from the futuristic sense and spiritual shock brought by the challenge on traditional home furnishings. Not being bound by rigid methods and patterns, the designer disintegrated traditional logic and presented a new interpretation of lifestyle.

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Seeking Deer Sales Office

Seeking Deer

Seeking Deer is a sales office located in the central area of Shanghai. The interior is divided into two floors. The first floor holds the hall display area and the conversation area, while the second floor holds the reception and office area. A large-scale floor-to-ceiling window opens the second floor toward the double-height conversation area below. The clear glass creates a visual connection between the two levels. A six meter long installation named Deer of Life is set in the second-floor window area, and guests can see the deer from the first floor.

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