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6xN Yard, Shanghai

Wutopia Lab

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Designer
Wutopia Lab
Client
Zoina Land
Floor area
216.00 ㎡
Completion
2017

Zoina Land asked us to do a set design of 6xN Yard in three days, with the final product available for only one day. We decided to use an art installation approach to create a surreal representation of our idea. They required us to jump out of the mold for our design. Since the second floor can no longer permit visitors, we decided to place the second floor on the ceiling so visitors, when the look up, may easily see the design of the second floor. The plane inverted on the ceiling is a mirror image of the design. This way visitors on a single level may experience the change of space between two floors on a single plane thus creating a new surreal experience of reality. With semitransparent material enclosing the interior, it allows for the interaction of light and shadow that obscures the limited volume of the internal space.

The mountain landscape is retained as the visual symbol of the architecture. We used black, grey, and white polycarbonate boards to create this seemingly ink painted landscape façade of 6xN Yard. Each piece of the faced is suspended in order to seem like it floats in space.