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Jia Garden

Mountain Soil Interior Design

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JURY VOTES
Multi-Brand Store
6.87
7.46
7.50
5.79
6.9
Anne-Laure Pingreoun
Anne-Laure Pingreoun Founder at Alter-Projects
it would have been great to see it...
6
7
7
6
6.5
Andrea Zickhardt
Andrea Zickhardt Managing Director at Holzer Kobler Architekturen
Pleasant atmosphere...
7.5
8
8
5
7.13
Liz Gallagher
Liz Gallagher Studio Director at March and White Design
6.5
7.5
7.75
5.5
6.81
Preeti Singh
Preeti Singh Brand Director at India Design ID
7
8
8
6
7.25
Claude Saos
Claude Saos Head of interior architecture and design at LISAA Strasbourg
6
8
8
6
7
Julia Chiaramonti
Julia Chiaramonti Founder at Julia Chiaramonti
Beautiful materials and natural col...
5.63
7.56
5.86
5.35
6.1
Ismael Abedin Ingelmo
Ismael Abedin Ingelmo Founder and Director at DXMID
Nice concept narrative translated t...
8.38
7.77
8.9
5.43
7.62
Ronnie Belizaire
Ronnie Belizaire Studio Practice Leader and Principal at HKS Inc.
6.5
8
7
5
6.63
Yan Pan
Yan Pan Cofounder and Chief Architect at SpActrum
Nice concept, The way one material...
8
7
8
7
7.5
Peter Pan
Peter Pan Founder and CEO at Noa Galaxy
6
7
7
6
6.5
Leendert Tange
Leendert Tange Creative Partner at Storeage-Group
Great concept that resulted in a st...
8.5
7
8.5
5
7.25
Judy Dowle
Judy Dowle Associate Design Director at Studio XAG
A refreshing approach, focusing on...
7.5
7
8.5
6.5
7.38
Tanya Suvannapong
Tanya Suvannapong Design Director at Gensler
Good concept approaches. Should int...
7
7
8
6
7
Quan Huang
Quan Huang Chief Designer at WJID
6.5
7
6
7
6.63
Servaas Vehmeijer
Servaas Vehmeijer Partner and Managing Director at The Invisible Party
6
8
6
5
6.25
Client
Jia Garden
Floor area
509 ㎡
Completion
2024
Budget
RMB 1500000
Social Media
Instagram
Lighting

Taking the Chinese character “园”(garden) as a starting point, the design narrates the overall space through the sequence of “Pending Garden/ Approaching Garden/ Wandering Garden/ Lingering Garden”.

In the fast-paced digital era, we are sensitive to the new trends, yet concurrently experiencing a delayed perception of the mundane.For a significant period, we regarded “the ground of the city covered with reinforced concrete and asphalt as a solidified and dead surface”. The clear cracks in the ground and the appearance of non-artificially intervened natural life over time provided us with an answer on how to perceive both artificial construction and organic nature.

Contemplating the approachable landscape has became a breakthrough for Mountain Soil. By translating the inimitable nature into the project design, the designer extracted spatial forms from daily scenes in our life.

The 1st floor serves as the main entrance, also curated as the “Pending Garden”, initiating the sequence of the entire conceptual space. Overlooking the panorama, a circular route around the central axis leads to the upper garden through a narrow staircase on the side.

The public area of 2F consists of three spatial layers. In the layout, we take the cracks in the ground, which is a collaboration of artifice and nature, as the structural representation of the entire space. Uneven walls further divide the area into three sections: Meeting Garden / Wandering Garden / Lingering Garden. 

Meeting Garden:
Connected with the 1st floor, the area forms a conversational space in between the architecture and its structure. Comprised of a planar cantilevered semi-circular arc that extends upward, juxtaposed with layered display and storage function, the central area of the entrance garden is dominated by elevated display systems, generating the focal point of the area.

Wandering Garden:
The central section on the 2nd floor, with display surfaces growing from the ground "cracks" in an organized and staggered manner. This design not only merely forms the perspective of altered heights, but also appropriate for displaying utensils of versatile sizes. The ground material is treated with washed stone, referencing contemporary garden pebbles to seamlessly introduce outdoor materials to indoor spaces. The deepened texture and material combinations were aimed to utilize the natural scenery into the interior, blurring the distinction between the outdoor and indoor garden.

Lingering Garden:
The area was designed for featuring large art installations, and accommodating events as well as leisurely panel discussions. Given the nature of these attributes, divergent functions within the space are freely combined. With the inclusion of the bar counter and intelligent equipments, a dynamic and interactive environment is created where nature and craftsmanship takes center stage.