Chongqing in southwest China has a population of over 30 million, making it one of the largest metropolises in the world. On the outskirts of this mega city, in a wooded and mountainous region, stands the striking CIFI Sales Center – an exceptional meeting place that, viewed from the outside, already resembles an art gallery. Inside the fully glazed building, furniture and works of art function as exhibits: Reflecting the surrounding landscape in their form, structure and surface quality, they foster a dialogue between nature and art. The customer’s desires and aspirations are deliberately targeted here. To underscore the gallery-like character of the space, we have used a colour spectrum of finely graduated white and grey tones.

Thanks to its translucent glass façades, the two-storey sales building merges with the surrounding landscape to form a harmonious whole. This establishes a connection to nature, which encourages a continuous dialogue between inside and outside, between man and nature. Thus visitors are reminded that the new residential area is closely connected to nature – a bucolic refuge beyond Chongqing. The alignment of the glass façades and the generously sized panes produce a spacious and generous spatial effect: 1,700 m2 of inside-outside flow on the horizontal plane.