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Where The Root Is Office

Where The Root Is

Where The Root Is is an office interior located in a historic building in central Shanghai. The root of a tree serves as the core design concept. Dark walnut timber lines cross the flat ceiling to suggest interwoven roots. Patterned timber flooring and wooden grille screens mark circulation and use, while the open screens allow light and air to pass through. A tea reception area greets guests and professional partners. Grey carpet and wool wall covering give the working area a calm tone, and the supervisor office is separated to ensure privacy.

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Cozy Life Shared Space

Cozy Life

Cozy Life is a shared workspace created inside a street-side house more than forty years old in Taiwan. The long and narrow layout limited natural light, so partitions were removed and openings were cut in the floors and fitted with glass to bring daylight down from a rooftop patio. Recycled wood, glass and tiles preserve the nostalgic character of the old building. The first floor holds a cafe and a bar, while the upper floors hold a photography studio, separate work areas and a yoga studio that can also host exhibitions and talks.

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Essence of Exorbitance Residential Apartment

Essence of Exorbitance

Essence of Exorbitance is a residential apartment interior in Taoyuan, Taiwan, covering 209.6 square meters. The entryway is finished with kosmus marble, and the floor is made of three-dimensional concrete panels with a rough texture. In the living and dining area, a marble television wall suggests the form of a waving sea. The wall cabinet doors carry a hand-painted rose image in beige kiln lacquer. Titanium sheets and gold-lacquered cabinets balance the colors and add storage. The master bedroom includes hidden storage for daily needs.

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Hiyama Restaurant

Hiyama

Hiyama is a Japanese restaurant interior designed around the ideas of nature, Zen and the traditional Japanese house. A bar near the entrance serves as a welcome area where guests can sit and wait with drinks. A bamboo path with mist creates the feeling of an outdoor garden. The dining areas are treated as separate houses, seen through the bamboo. A pavilion stands at the end of the path, followed by a main hall placed between a wooden veranda and a balcony facing the harbor. Each room is built as an individual structure with beams and columns.

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Innovation Center Kitchen Lab

Innovation Center

The Yum China Innovation Center is a 2500 square meter interior design for a food research and development facility in Shanghai, China. The center contains specialized kitchens, a conference room, a packaging design area, offices and a lobby. Each kitchen is planned for efficient, hygienic and comfortable work. Dedicated ventilation, water, power and data systems support the research activities. Ash wood and burl surfaces in gray and white tones create a warm and calm atmosphere. The layout was studied to improve the movement of staff and visitors.

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Frame Sales Office

Frame

Frame is a sales office interior located in Tianjin, China. The space covers 1200 square meters and is arranged on two floors. The first floor holds the hall display area and a coffee lounge, while the second floor contains a VIP reception and an office area. The entrance foyer is a two-story open volume without partitions. A frame structure of shaped blocks and grilles divides the space and defines each function. Contrasts of light, color, and texture give the interior the character of an art gallery placed inside a box.

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Luxurious Villa Interior Design

Luxurious Villa

This single isolated house benefits from a neat and square space, with a central staircase that naturally divides the floor into two halves. The multi-story structure allows for functional units to be arranged on each level, according to the client's needs. The first floor, boasting a height of nearly four meters, comprises a foyer-style entrance, a living room, an open kitchen and dining area for the family to share, as well as a garage in the front yard.

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City Heart Exhibition Hall

City Heart

From the city's architecture to index to understand and weigh the balance of design, the city's expression condensed in three corner space, through the urban construction and development to promote enterprises, the city and people's perspective of the change of the city and urban characteristics and urban climate folding in exchange to express the designer's understanding of a city, see the city's past more to see his future.

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Junlang Villa Interior Design

Junlang Villa

This 5-story elevator villa is a newly constructed project that makes full use of the advantages of a multiple-floored foundation for equal distribution. Each floor of the villa has been designed to meet the individual needs and preferences of small families, with a different functional theme. The villa includes a double-car garage on the first floor, a common room for receiving guests and a children’s play area, all of which are connected by elevators and indoor stairs. This innovative design offers a unique living experience for small families.

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Half of the Mountain Homestay

Half of the Mountain

Half of the Mountain is a homestay interior located in the Maoshan scenic area of Jintan, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. The design covers nearly 5000 square meters of building and interior space, set within a forest on a tea mountain. Traditional materials from the surroundings are used, including rammed earth, clay plaster, gravel, raw stone, timber, local bamboo, clay fired green tiles and black bricks. Guests can join tea picking, tea making and packaging activities. The intent is to present the local landscape, Taoist culture and craft traditions.

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Zhimu Spa Club

Zhimu Spa

Zhimu Spa is an interior design for a leisure club in Changzhou, China. The project covers 2400 square meters and contains 53 private rooms. The floor height is less than 3 meters, so part of the first floor was opened and a curved stair was added to connect the two levels. The stair stands above a shallow water surface, and the hall behind the stair rises about 7 meters. Stone, wood and fabric are combined. Small landscapes with plants and stones are placed beside the private rooms to link the interior with nature.

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The MeetNi Guesthouse

The MeetNi

In terms of design elements, it is not intended to be complicated or minimalist. It takes Chinese simple color as the base, but uses textured paint to leave space blank, which forms the oriental artistic conception in line with modern aesthetics. Modern humanistic home furnishings and traditional decorations with historical stories seem to be ancient and modern dialogues flowing in space, with a leisurely ancient charm.

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