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Milky Way

Republic Metropolis Architecture

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External appearance - Kaijian Lee
External appearance - Kaijian Lee
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Comments
Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Restaurant
6.38
5.23
6.33
4.71
5.66
Ting Yu
Ting Yu Chief Architect at Wutopia Lab
The Designer should improve the col...
5
4
5
3
4.25
Frank Lee
Frank Lee Founder and President at Shanghai Fengyuzhu Culture Technology
5
5
6
5
5.25
Simon Goff
Simon Goff Founder and Director at Floor_Story
5
5
7
5
5.5
Nathan Watts
Nathan Watts Creative Director at Interstore
6
5
6
5
5.5
Nic Granleese
Nic Granleese CEO and Cofounder at BowerBird
5
6
6
5
5.5
Janne van Berlo
Janne van Berlo Founder at Atelier van Berlo
5
4
5
3
4.25
Doris Sung
Doris Sung Principal/Director of Undergraduate Programs at DOSU Studio Architecture/USC School of Architecture
5
5
5
5
5
Lorcan O'Herlihy
Lorcan O'Herlihy Founder, Design Principal at Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA]
6
6
5
5
5.5
Jeff Yrazabal
Jeff Yrazabal President at SRG Partnership
6
6
6
5
5.75
Julio Kowalenko
Julio Kowalenko Cofounder at Atelier Caracas
5
6
6
5
5.5
Akanksha Deo Sharma
Akanksha Deo Sharma Designer at Ikea
5
5
6
5
5.25
Tobias Geisler
Tobias Geisler Cofounder at VAVE Studio
5
5
7
5
5.5
Client
Mr.QIAN
Floor area
858 ㎡
Completion
2021

The exterior harmonises the surroundings with flat, modular steel panels. At street level one can peer into the heterogeneous, continuously pleated spaces within. The discontinuous holes cut through the linear narrative of time and collage it into a collection of fragments at multiple points in time.

The clutter of the external world is replaced by the purity of the interior, where the clean white material allows the perception of light to intensify, space shifts, light shifts and shapes shift. Light also permeates the spaces due to the holes.

Distortions are transmitted everywhere by the force of the revolving staircase. Here the folds are at their richest and the sense of dynamism is intensified. The heterogeneous space mixes exterior features, vestibules, traffic, light and consultation into a complex of forms and experiences.

The flat, blurred sheet metal base still has a strange, disorienting dreaminess to it. The warm touch of wood and the jumping colours of leather act as the most intimate physical elements of the space, drawing one back into the safe warmth of the dining scene and resisting the coldness of metal.