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Shanghai Yangpu Riverside Soap Factory

Supercloud Studio

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Abstract flower petals. - Tian Fangfang
Design status of the building after renovation - xunjun xu
Sculpture of a little girl with soap bubbles. - Xia Zhi
Abstract flower petals. - Tian Fangfang

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Multi-Brand Store
5.76
5.67
6.29
5.22
5.73
Darren Xu
Darren Xu General Manager at Heytea
5.83
5
6.12
5
5.49
Andre Flinterhoff
Andre Flinterhoff Cofounder at Archicon Architectural Intelligence
6
6
7
4
5.75
Talar Bardakjian
Talar Bardakjian Creative Director at ODG
6
5
6.3
5
5.58
Filip Janssen
Filip Janssen Founder at Zware Jongens
6.25
6.2
7
5
6.11
Stephanie Ledoux
Stephanie Ledoux Partner at AW²
6.06
5.95
7.26
6.86
6.53
Tanya Khanna
Tanya Khanna Founder at Epistle
4.77
4.54
4.64
4.32
4.57
Claudio Pironi
Claudio Pironi CEO at Claudio Pironi & Partners
5
6
5
4
5
Arne Schultchen
Arne Schultchen Founder and Creative Director at design for human nature
5.5
6
6.5
4
5.5
Peter Culley
Peter Culley Founder and Creative Director at Spatial Affairs Bureau
5.13
5.2
5.13
5
5.12
Anda Zota
Anda Zota Editor in Chief at Igloo
I enjoy the color scheme of this pr...
6.67
6.74
6.74
6.74
6.72
Horace Pan
Horace Pan Founder at Panorama Design Group
6
6
6.5
6
6.13
Christina Wissing Oppermann
Christina Wissing Oppermann Commercial Director at Brandt Collective
5.98
5
6.6
6.07
5.91
Bart Veen
Bart Veen Experience Designer at Bart.Agency
I like how they designed a narrativ...
6
6
7
5
6
Christian Buratti
Christian Buratti Art Director at Quadrastudio
6
6
7
6
6.25
Salone
Salone Founder at Salone del Salon
5.17
5.38
5.6
5.31
5.37
Client
Shanghai Yangpu Binjiang Investment Development, Shanghai Yangshupu Cultural and Creative Industry and Shanghai Guhao Culture Development
Floor area
1450 ㎡
Completion
2020
Lighting & Installation

Founded in 1923, Shanghai Soap Factory is located on Yangshupu Road near the Huangpu river. It was originally known as the British Chinese Soap Factory, set up by the British Unilever Co. in Yangshupu as the first soap factory in the Far East. Many Chinese household brands such as Bee Flower, Guben, Shanpai, Baili etc. have all been made here and loved by generations. This renovation project is set on the production auxiliary area of the former Soap Factory, south facing to the Huangpu River, with adjacent landscape and water wharf. The interior design team #Supercloud Studio# focused on ‘Soap’ as the main theme of the design, introduced a narrative of soap making as the journey that visitors are going to experience, and combined new media forms to the interior space to present a chanting theme of soap making, traversing the history and the present of the soap factory and made this project a popular public space along the Yangpu Riverside. The renovated interior space is named as "Fantasy Babble", a collaborate works result from planning, architecture, landscape, interior, lighting, and exhibition design. The soap making process is transformed into physical spaces with public arts, display, as well as coffee and dinning in the once soap-making production space, and even taking part of the production in a laboratory. In this project one travels through the tunnels of time and spaces, spaces of yangpu’s industrial past, linked to present, witnessing a story of industrialization.