H3 Experience Centre in Kunming, China by Nota Design Group

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Background:

Isabel Flooring is an established flooring specialist in China. H3 is their foray into other wood products such as timber doors and built-in furnitures. This design exercise will attempt to portray H3 as “The Wood Specialist” and set a store identity for the brand’s countrywide expansion.

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• Architects: Nota Design Group
• Project: H3 Experience Centre
• Design director: Keat Ong
• Design team:  jianjie He, mengxiang Huang
• Client: H3/ Isable
• Location: Kunming, China
• Software used: Autocad, 3Dmax, Vray

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Site:

The site is located in one of the new building materials centers in Songming County, Kunming.
The site area of 533.5 square meter is to be expanded into a double storey 994 square meter sales centre.

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Design Brief:

• To create a new kind of shopping experience for the consumers in a highly competitive building materials market.
• To create a strong and memorable store identity with maximum visual impact.
• To portray the brand’s effort in it’s constant push for sustainable process and products
• To capitalize on Isabel’s success in laminate flooring

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Design Concept:

Exterior Design-
To create H3’s image as “The Wood Specialist”, the storefront is composed of 5 different types of wood structure interlocking together in a multi-layered and articulated manner.

To portray H3’s support for the environment, all the wood on the facade are reused pinewood which is readily available in the local area.

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Interior Design-

To take advantage of the parent brand’s heritage in laminated flooring, the design used the product to “lead” customers into the other new products. A brand new “Ribbon” system of flooring sample presentation is created which brings customers from one zone to another.

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With the “Ribbon” system, customers are led from one zone to another, allowing them to move in a structured yet open manner, guiding them , yet not restricting them.

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The sample zones are created to allow customers to see how the different products can be matched to form different harmonious living environments to help customers solve common design dilemmas.

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Tags: China, Kunming

Categories: 3dS Max, Autocad, Experience Centre, V-Ray, Workshop

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