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Design Ambient

Design Ambient featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Greenland Intercity Space Station

Greenland Intercity Space Station is an office interior located in Nanjing, China. The design covers an area of 5000 square meters and replaces the traditional standardized layout with an open and collaborative plan. The independent work areas are shaped as boxes stacked at different scales. Large light colored stone surfaces add a sense of depth. The lobby is high and spacious, and the floors have no clear boundaries. Staircases pass through the building structure and link the public areas, while stepped wooden stairs offer extra seating for meetings, lectures and events.

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Kanglaibo

Kanglaibo is the interior design of a resort hotel located in the Baianshan National Forest Park in Jiangxi Province, China. The hotel is a single building of 16,000 square meters with 19 floors. The first floor holds the lobby, bar and breakfast restaurant, floors two to four hold dining and meeting spaces, and floors five to nineteen hold guest rooms and suites. Hakka culture guides the interior, with local stone, ceramics and traditional woodcut artworks. A temperature controlled water system serves the hot spring baths and saves natural hot spring resources.

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Spring Breeze

Spring Breeze is an office space in Kunming, Yunnan, China. The project is the renovation of a single-family steel-structured building with an indoor area of 1000 square meters. A wooden hanging house was built inside the original structure with traditional techniques, using tenon and mortise joints without nails. Two rows of columns and beams support the suspended rooms and corridors. A double-wall design controls the sunlight entering the work area through the glass facade. The wooden house forms a visual contrast with the steel building.

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Smart City

Smart City is an exhibition design created for an international municipal innovation exhibition and conference held in Tel Aviv, Israel. The design covers 3000 square meters and includes a registration hall, a VIP lounge, business meeting rooms, conference stages and a gala venue. The concept is based on a vertical city rising above an increasingly urbanized world. Hanging and geometric elements are made of aluminum, plexiglass and mesh to keep the weight low. Printed carpets, light boxes and greenery installations complete the setting.

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Coral

Coral is an electric radiator made entirely of aluminum. The form was generated with parametric design software, which grew a closed curve with a very extended perimeter. The long perimeter raises the thermal output and spreads heat evenly over the whole surface. The 8 mm aluminum sheet is laser cut and then milled for the electric heating system, and the thickness helps the radiator hold the reached temperature. Coral is offered in a rectangular format and a circular format. A dedicated application sets the days and times of operation, the heating speed and the temperature.

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Over

Over is a modular furniture system designed for bathrooms. The system is built around supporting structural elements in steel, which allow light and flexible compositions. Countertops for washbasins are made of MDF, while drawers and storage units combine MDF and steel. Integrated parts such as tops, mirrors, drawers and accessories can be arranged in many ways. A wide range of colors and finishes is available. Over aims to give the bathroom a clear structure that is easy to use and simple to personalize.

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