Landscape in Fantasy
The project design idea and logic combined the essence of the traditional Chinese culture of “emptiness” and classical Chinese garden design with the contemporary interior design approach, to create a parallel interaction, dialogue and renewal. A design practice that try to combine the essence of the classical garden concept with contemporary minimalist approaches, aiming to build a ‘floating’ garden-like space of freedom and transcendence. 

In the Song Dynasty landscape paintings, waters are always left to be ‘empty’, giving endless space for the imagination of modern gardening. As for this project, blank space in the public area in the store is as waters and shores in ancient paintings, and the guest rooms spread in the pattern of swimming fish crowd are set up as islands, then the rocks appear in between so as to create a landscape in fantasy. 

The project design logic is proceeded from point to plane, starting from analyzing the specific behavior scale of user in a operating bed, the sensation of being in the room, and the supporting equipments around, then extended. This design method archives a balance between the functionality and the user-experience in the guest room under limited area conditions. Through the compact and consecutive layout of the rooms, circulation pattern grows accordingly to lead the customer’s wander direction and creates an experience of dramatic in the space. 

Inside the rooms, pure white environment features an intelligent, adjustable light system that provides soft diffused light source, to create an immersive free experience, and also a professional light condition for skin examination. And the efficient room layout also frees up a sufficient space for building the public area experience, giving more space to design for concept communication. 

The project combined the essence of the classical Chinese garden design logic with the contemporary interior design approach, to create a parallel interaction, dialogue and renewal. The space design helped the client to achieve a sustainable brand impact with an expressive image, so as exploring its possibilities.