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Jiupai Huafu Sales Office

Jiupai Huafu

Jiupai Huafu is a sales office in the center of Jiujiang, China, covering 650 square meters. The design draws on traditional Chinese culture, including courtyards, landscape, pine and cypress, poetry and tea, reinterpreted for a contemporary space. The order and symmetry of traditional buildings are applied to a simple modern interior. The plan is divided into a landscape exhibition area, a negotiation area, a tea tasting area, a children's area, a VIP room and a model room. Emulsion paint, stone, metal, acrylic and lacquer painting are used.

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Soco Work Coworking Space

Soco Work

Soco Work is a new type of coworking space which designed to accommodate users changing lifestyles, proposing new definitions of what a coworking space can be. Soco Work takes inspiration from how Thai people like to season their food to have the taste closest to their personal preferences. The design concept, therefore, picks up on the approach that eventually creates different styles of workspace to comprehensively cater to prospective tenant images and lifestyle. The design also enables the spaces to be managed with the greatest efficiency, and strengthening the project strong points.

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Wanwea Yun Restaurant

Wanwea Yun

Wanwea Yun is a restaurant interior in Chengdu, China, covering 1800 square meters. The design combines Peking duck cuisine with traditional Sichuan food. Each private room has a sofa lounge, a tea tasting area and a dining area, so guests can sit, drink tea and eat in turn. Translucent fish-shaped decorations are grouped across the high ceiling to suggest a flow into the sea. At the entrance, more than 100 types of food seeds are set in resin squares and arranged on the wall by region. Wood, baking paint, electroplated metal and Suriname black marble are the main materials.

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Longyin Shanfang Catering Space

Longyin Shanfang

Longyin Shanfang is a Chinese restaurant interior located in Nanjing, China. The space covers 800 square meters and is themed on mountain forests within the city. Natural materials such as water, stone, soil and bamboo are used with contemporary processing methods. The layout follows the three distances of Chinese landscape culture, with trees, stones, springs and pavilions forming a layered scene. Holographic laser projection and video create changing landscape images. The design aims to restore an elegant and quiet dining atmosphere based on Oriental aesthetics.

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Tr88House Recreational Center

Tr88House

The designer of Tr88 House, a recreational complex that includes a food court, a kids' play area, a trampoline, laser tag, mini golf, a kids' club, and a rooftop bar, was inspired by his own childhood nightmares. The primary objective of this proposal is to provide separate areas and methods for people of all ages to communicate with one another between the spaces, taking into account the location of this complex in Dubai and its use. The other goal is to create a visually green environment without employing actual plants.

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Harbin Imperial Lake Sales Center

Harbin Imperial Lake

Harbin Imperial Lake is the interior design of a sales center covering 1100 square meters. The layout follows the crescent moon shape of the building, and the reception desk and the water bar are joined into one long curve. A warm wood wall with scale patterns recalls fish leaping on a lake. Large windows open the rooms to the surrounding landscape. Natural wood veneer, cane, water-based art coating, stone, metal and glass mirror form a simple material palette. The interior is intended to offer visitors a calm and natural atmosphere.

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