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.
Jia Garden
Mountain Soil Interior Design
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Anne-Laure Pingreoun
Founder
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it would have been great to see it...
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Andrea Zickhardt
Managing Director
at Holzer Kobler Architekturen
Pleasant atmosphere...
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Liz Gallagher
Studio Director
at March and White Design
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Preeti Singh
Brand Director
at India Design ID
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Claude Saos
Head of interior architecture and design
at LISAA Strasbourg
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Julia Chiaramonti
Founder
at Julia Chiaramonti
Beautiful materials and natural col...
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Ismael Abedin Ingelmo
Founder and Director
at DXMID
Nice concept narrative translated t...
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8.9
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Ronnie Belizaire
Studio Practice Leader and Principal
at HKS Inc.
6.5
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6.63

Yan Pan
Cofounder and Chief Architect
at SpActrum
Nice concept, The way one material...
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Peter Pan
Founder and CEO
at Noa Galaxy
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Leendert Tange
Creative Partner
at Storeage-Group
Great concept that resulted in a st...
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Judy Dowle
Associate Design Director
at Studio XAG
A refreshing approach, focusing on...
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Tanya Suvannapong
Design Director
at Gensler
Good concept approaches. Should int...
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Quan Huang
Chief Designer
at WJID
6.5
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Servaas Vehmeijer
Partner and Managing Director
at The Invisible Party
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Designer
Client
Jia Garden
Floor area
509 ㎡
Completion
2024
Budget
RMB 1500000
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