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Morph

Various Associates万社设计

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Designer
Various Associates万社设计
Client
MORPH
Floor area
1000.00 ㎡
Completion
2019

MORPH is located in Shenzhen, China. The designers wanted to utilize some traditional and local materials to collide with the modern interior structural forms, and fuse gradually-forgotten Chinese old elements with international modern designs and aesthetics in an innovative manner, thereby presenting the "evolution" of design.

The greatest challenge was how to incorporate their thinking into the spatial design and at the same time to combine transfomed traditional Chinese elements with modern designs. The color palette is inspired by the Forbidden City, consisting of red, blue, black, yellow and gold, which feature extremely high saturation and are consistent with the colors of Wu Xing (Wu Xing is also named as the 5 Elements, which includes metal, wood, water, fire and earth. In traditional Chinese philosophy, Wu Xing is the foundation of everything in the universe and natural phenomena). The 5 hues with Chinese characteristics are reorganized, interpreted and transformed in a modern approach within the space, which well integrate with the interior structures, together producing visual highlights.

The key design intervention is the creation of a mezzanine. Through precise structural calculation, designers added a mezzanine to the original 7m high space, which is regarded as 2F. A circular and flexible circulation connects all functional areas, and structural languages well match with materials featuring strong hues, hence maintaining balance and unity in an expanded space.