Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020
Positioned within the evolving tradition of contemporary hospitality and commercial interior design, Shenzhen Innest Art Co., Ltd.'s Changle Lanshan Sales Center represents a thoughtful meditation on the relationship between natural materials and architectural gesture, achieving a synthesis that feels both timeless and distinctly modern. The undulating timber ceiling, perhaps the composition's most striking formal achievement, transforms what might otherwise function as utilitarian overhead plane into a dynamic landscape of organic rhythm, its laminated wood grain suggesting natural formations while its geometric precision speaks to sophisticated fabrication and design intentionality. This overhead treatment establishes an enveloping warmth that tempers the cooler mineral presence of the grey-veined marble reception desk below, creating a material dialogue between the organic and the geological. The designers appear to have drawn upon multiple aesthetic traditions, synthesizing elements that evoke mid-century organic modernism with the refined material sensibilities associated with East Asian spatial culture, where the careful selection and juxtaposition of natural materials carries profound aesthetic and philosophical significance. The stepped columnar elements flanking the composition introduce a measured verticality that grounds the flowing horizontal energy above, their bronze or gold-toned insets adding precious metal warmth that elevates the overall material register toward considered luxury. The signage treatment, rendered in restrained typography against pale panels, demonstrates how brand communication can integrate seamlessly into architectural composition without disrupting spatial serenity. Lighting has been orchestrated to model surfaces and create atmospheric gradation, with the luminous background aperture suggesting continuation and possibility while the warm pools from recessed fixtures establish intimate zones within the larger volume. The viewer is invited to consider how architecture might function simultaneously as shelter and sculpture, as functional envelope and aesthetic experience, and how the thoughtful orchestration of material, light, and form can create spaces that honor both practical purpose and contemplative experience.
Located in the center of Changle District, Fuzhou City, the project Changle Lanshan Sales Center integrates the profound culture here as well as the oriental conception of mountains, seas and gardens with the modern architecture to honor the elegant, poetic oriental lifestyle. With both the oriental elements and the modern, the architecture creates an artistic conception in space with art and culture, blending the nature and spirit into the truth of life.