Located on the east coast of Xiamen, a well-known port city in Fujian Province, China, the Xiamen Winland IFC, covering approximately 500,000 square meters of area, is the largest mixed-use development in the core of the emerging seafront financial zone Cross-Strait Financial Center. The promising new financial district boasts mutually enhanced station-and-city TOD development, diversified and high-density business scenes, maximised greenery and sea views, as well as ample public spaces.
Living in the urban concrete jungle, we yearn for ocean and have portrayed different versions of underwater worlds. The sea is abstract yet concrete, stimulating infinite imagination. It’s like a metaphor, connecting with our emotional perception as architecture does.
The endless coastlines in the earth divide two totally different worlds between reality and imagination. As approaching this restaurant space, the design team brought in a large area of blue as the highlighted visual element. It’s like an invitation that the sea sends to people, conveying calmness and restraint under the dynamic ocean surface.
The project is located at the former site of an aluminum factory in Huli District, Xiamen City. The building was originally a public bath of the factory. In 2019, the building was also partially renovated after the aluminum factory was transformed into a creative office park with multiple business forms, such as bars, basketball arena, and live-streaming space. This time we were commissioned by the Buddha artist Jiang Sheng to renovate the building into a new studio and exhibition space called “The Field”.
The word “Elysium” originates from Buddhism, meaning the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss or Sukhavati, but “THE FIELD” is not intended to be an isolated pure land. The owner hopes to abandon the concept of “isolated and unreachable” and create an attractive spiritual place.
The project is situated in an abandoned cement factory area, where the owner chose a three-storey building to create a residence. The main structures of the original building, including the cylindrical structure, are retained, which tell the connection between the past and present.
Located in the commercial hub of Xiamen Island, the project is a flagship store of HEYTEA, China’s leading tea drink brand. Based on characteristics of the open two-storey architectural space, MOC DESIGN OFFICE created bottom-up oblique order within it, which accommodates various possibilities for urban life and socializing.
In general, the flows of medical buildings are often stiff passageways; however, the interior design of Xiamen Humanity Hospital transforms those stiff passageways of traditional medical buildings into various meticulous service spaces full of service and vitality.
The project was repurposed from a former factory terrace. The unique location and unconventional structure of the original space allowed the designer to give full play to imagination and creativity.
At the entrance, the flexible cut spatial block, dilutes the massiveness of the building, which is just like a modern installation art work full of tension, leading the space to extend inward with its clear lines.
Within the space 4.6 meters high, a two-story structure was built in the atrium. The designer ingenuously created an open door way in this area, which seems to bring people into another dimension. Under the staircase, there is a separate sunken area, deep and tranquil, waiting for foodies to step in.
“It’s a city above and around the sea”. Located in the south-east end of Fujian Province, Xiamen services as a major city in Southern Fujian. Surrounded by seawater, the city enjoys agreeable weather all year around, and is therefore known as a picturesque “Sea Garden”. Hualuxe Xiamen is situated at the heart of the Haicang Bay Landscape Belt. The peculiar appearance of the property resembles flying egret’s wings a lot, as if the building is soaring from Xiamen harbor and taking the entire city with it. As the interior consultant, YANG bares Hualuxe’s brand philosophies (Chinese Etiquette, Status Recognition, Rejuvenation in Nature & Enabling Space), Southern Fujian cultures and features of bay cities in mind, presenting a characterful cultural hotel that stands out from its competitors else where.
The sense of literature of Xiamen is more profound than the freshness of walking by the sea, it is rooted in the undulating waves . The light of the interior space is soft, and the deep sense of modern has kept the low-key luxury temperament of old Shanghai, thus the room presents a narrative tone.
email
Facebook
Twitter
RSS Feed
