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Karv One Design

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
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JURY VOTES
Wellness Space
4.64
4.82
4.81
3.82
4.52
Qi Wei
Qi Wei Member, Urban Renewal Professional Committee, Vanke Shanghai Area at Vanke Group
6
4
6
3
4.75
Astin le Clercq
Astin le Clercq Cofounder and Design Director at Modem
4
5
3
3
3.75
Michela Falcone
Michela Falcone Architect / Educator at Experimental Architecture / BNU University
5
5
5
4
4.75
Bernhard Kurz
Bernhard Kurz Founder at IFUB*
4
4
4
2
3.5
Melissa Amarelo
Melissa Amarelo Cofounder and Creative Director at Toi Toi Toi Creative Studio
5
5
5
5
5
Monica Daley
Monica Daley Creative Lead Future Projects at Drift
4
5
3
3
3.75
Mao Hua
Mao Hua Founder at EK Design
4
5
4
4
4.25
Massimiliano Tosetto
Massimiliano Tosetto Managing Director at Lodes
4
5
5.5
4
4.63
Amber Feijen
Amber Feijen Spatial and Concept Designer at 5AM
5
4
4
3
4
Simal Yesiltepe
Simal Yesiltepe Founder and Creative Director at Simal Yes Studio
5
5
7
4
5.25
Karen El Asmar
Karen El Asmar Architect & Interaction Designer at Tech
5
5
6
5
5.25
Lisa Torreggiani
Lisa Torreggiani Partner at Monkeydu
4
5
4
4
4.25
Britt Berden
Britt Berden Senior Creative Strategist at FranklinTill
5
5
4
3
4.25
Claudia Mazzucato
Claudia Mazzucato Associate Designer and Architect at THDP
4.95
5
5
4.24
4.8
Thijn de Ruijter
Thijn de Ruijter Founder and Executive Partner at Karin Lauwers Agencies
4
4
5
3
4
Bob Chen
Bob Chen Founder at Bob Chen Design Office
5.86
5.95
6.3
6.66
6.19
Sophie van Winden
Sophie van Winden Director at Owl Design
4
5
5
4
4.5
Client
Shenzhen Vanke
Floor area
800 ㎡
Completion
2021
Social Media
Instagram
Furniture

Innovation:
Focusing on the space concept of “community around the sports park”, Karv One Design started from the façade design, which is inspired by baseball elements, and carried out a full-scale integrated design, including architectural interior design, FF&E, and art installations. In the 4,000㎡ space, gym and café are combined to show the beauty of life in the name of sports. 

Creativity:
Movement is the embodiment of power and beauty, which has been the source of human art civilization. Power, speed, elegance have always been the iconic keywords of sports, and that’s what we want to express within the space. Taking "The Challenger" as the space theme, Karv One Design innovatively restores and presents the sports arena in the space. The multimedia interactive installation takes the jumping height as the judging criterion. Encouraged by the dual senses of visual and sound effects, people jump up again and again, and the achievement system makes people focus Challengers who achieve outstanding performance, which are rewarded spiritually. Opposite to the hard installation, the spiral staircase is elegant like a ballet dancer dancing gracefully on the court. 

The arc-shaped light strips on the wall are simulating the airflow when the dancer rotates, bringing visual tension that breaks through the limitation of gravity. From top to bottom, when entering this staircase from another angle, the arc form of the "golden section" is directly displayed in front of everyone's eyes. The lighting of the whole case adopts a spatial syntax of linear narrative, and the flexible light strips, detailed and precise down lights and spotlights throughout make the entire area visually echo each other, consistent with the spatial lines, and provide a unified aesthetic guidance for the wandering line. In the combination of art and sports, the circular seat at the bar deepens the connection between people, making it a whole-age social space of future community.

Functionality:
The entire space is open to residents and foreign tourists and is divided into two floors. The first floor is the gym area, which connects the community and the park with sports and conveys the brand concept. On the second floor, Hill-Café creates a shared and open life scene.

Sustainability:
Focusing on the most vivid elements in the scene of "people", it integrates the pioneer sports club to the city express. Karv One design expands people's yearning for an open, healthy and diverse "international sports community", and creates a pioneer healthy club that integrates activities, diversified business, and park social interaction.