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Gemart Space

PMT Partners

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Smart Home Theater (Second Floor) - Ming YAN
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Single-Brand Store
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Astin le Clercq
Astin le Clercq Cofounder and Design Director at Modem
Great material usage and consistenc...
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Qi Wei
Qi Wei Member, Urban Renewal Professional Committee, Vanke Shanghai Area at Vanke Group
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Bernhard Kurz
Bernhard Kurz Founder at IFUB*
How sustainable can a shop design b...
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Melissa Amarelo
Melissa Amarelo Cofounder and Creative Director at Toi Toi Toi Creative Studio
so much attention to detail went in...
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7.25
Monica Daley
Monica Daley Creative Lead Future Projects at Drift
Great attention to detail and use o...
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7.63
Jeroen Panders
Jeroen Panders Business Director at Byborre
There's nothing more permanent than...
4.45
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4.95
Mao Hua
Mao Hua Founder at EK Design
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6.35
Simal Yesiltepe
Simal Yesiltepe Founder and Creative Director at Simal Yes Studio
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6.75
Massimiliano Tosetto
Massimiliano Tosetto Managing Director at Lodes
A great project that considers purp...
8.5
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8.53
Thijn de Ruijter
Thijn de Ruijter Founder and Executive Partner at Karin Lauwers Agencies
7.88
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7.88
Amber Feijen
Amber Feijen Spatial and Concept Designer at 5AM
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6.5
6.88
Claudia Mazzucato
Claudia Mazzucato Associate Designer and Architect at THDP
6.74
6.88
7.1
7.31
7.01
Karen El Asmar
Karen El Asmar Architect & Interaction Designer at Tech
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6.5
Britt Berden
Britt Berden Senior Creative Strategist at FranklinTill
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Simon Hatter
Simon Hatter Founder at Hatter Agency
8
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7
7.75
Bob Chen
Bob Chen Founder at Bob Chen Design Office
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7.5
Franklin Azzi
Franklin Azzi Founder at Franklin Azzi Architecture
7.5
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7.63
Sophie van Winden
Sophie van Winden Director at Owl Design
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7.25
Michela Falcone
Michela Falcone Architect / Educator at Experimental Architecture / BNU University
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6.63
Lisa Torreggiani
Lisa Torreggiani Partner at Monkeydu
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Woody Yao
Woody Yao Director at Zaha Hadid Design
7.5
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Commissioned by GEMART, PMT Partners Ltd. conducted a smart home exhibition store in Guangzhou. The store focuses on GEMART’s cutting-edge technology in whole-house smart systems, including the full-scene experience areas of intelligent lighting control, intelligent curtain system and intelligent home theatre. 

The biggest challenge of this store is how to provide a better scene experience and show the product attributes of the ‘smart system’ in an intuitive manner. The store is an independent building that has floor-to-ceiling glass walls on all four sides and a special architectural volume in the furnishing mall. 

From the outside of the store, the interior of the store can be seen directly through the glass wall. Therefore, architect hopes to utilize this spatial feature to convert the store into a totally transparent box so that the space created by the whole-house smart system becomes a complete ‘product’ and ‘spatial specimen’. Moreover, the various scenes and lighting changes controlled by the smart system in the interior become the outdoor display of the store. 

The store is divided into two floors. The first floor focuses on the display of intelligent system panels and curtain systems. The design hopes to create additional display sides in a small display space by introducing cave-like display walls. Meanwhile, these walls are like the skeleton of the entire interior space. From the outside of the store, you can see the composition of the entire interior space through the glass wall. Coupled with the gradually changing effect of the lighting system, the entire building seems to be breathing and alive. The spiral staircase along the arched wall leads to the second floor of the store, which is the experience area of the intelligent home theatre. On this floor, through the control of GEMART’s smart system, the entire house is interconnected and can be managed by a central key according to various users’ requirements and use scenarios, including lighting, TV, loudspeaker box, projection, curtains and the fireplace. The user, who is on the sofa at the center of the store, can directly feel the changes in the entire store. 

People outside of the store can also see the dynamic changes in the entire store. Thus, in addition to the direct experience of the intelligent system, the store boasts a strong product display attribute of the whole-house smart system. In the present highly developed society with advanced technology, as well as the foreseeable future, the introduction of whole-house smart systems will certainly initiate a new evolution of the residence, an evolution that will bring us closer to the essence of living. 

PMT Partners Ltd. hopes that, through the design of this store, the possibility of using whole-house smart home systems in the next generation of intelligent houses will be explored.