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Urban Xanadu

Matrix Design

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Negotiation area - Shi Xiang Wan He, XUEER
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JURY VOTES
Bar
5.20
5.80
5.75
5.23
5.5
Claudio Fiore Massenz
Claudio Fiore Massenz Sustainability Design Expert for the Built Environment at PVH Corp.
I am very inspired by the orange, c...
5
5
7
6
5.75
Thomas Danet
Thomas Danet Design Director at Jones Lang LaSalle
It's a nice, classic hospitality ba...
5
6.5
6
6
5.88
Kajsa Krause
Kajsa Krause Design Principal at Champalimaud Design
5
7
6.5
5
5.88
Emily White
Emily White Experiential Design Lead at Deloitte Digital
I agree with the comments re; the m...
6
5
5
5
5.25
Nicky Drobis
Nicky Drobis Partner at Fender Katsalidis
A positive planning move to segrega...
5
6
5
5
5.25
Eric Ch
Eric Ch CEO at Still Young
5
6
6
5
5.5
Marta Nunez Anton
Marta Nunez Anton Associate Interior Designer at AECOM @ ID+S
I really like the orange "waved" st...
5
6
6
5
5.5
Marianne Stroyeva
Marianne Stroyeva Senior Retail Design Manager at adidas
5
5
5
5
5
Huang	Jianfeng
Huang Jianfeng Founder and Creative Director at ONE-CU Interior Design Lab
6
6
6
5
5.75
Ying Sun
Ying Sun Senior Interior Architect at Spotify
I’m impressed that the project was...
5
4.5
6
4.5
5
Peng You
Peng You Co-founder and CEO at Benwu Studio
5
6
5.5
5
5.38
Gijs Baks
Gijs Baks Founder at Space Encounters
Great how the daylight enters the s...
5
6
5
5
5.25
Stephanie Lund
Stephanie Lund Cofounder and Creative Director at toi toi toi creative studio
Love how the windows open up to mak...
5.75
6.25
5.5
5.75
5.81
Matt Parry
Matt Parry CEO at The Future Collective
5
6
6
6
5.75
Client
Hefei Chengwan Real Estate
Floor area
815 ㎡
Completion
2022
Budget
RMB 4.48 million
Finishes

In the URBAN XANADU, the Matrix Design team, with the natural and cultural veins of Luzhou, through the continuation of innovation, collision and integration, to achieve the symbiosis and integration of commercial functions and regional humanities, the concept of habitat, with a unique narrative language, the continuation of the meaning given by the city, the construction of a modern oriental CO-LIFE parlor where tradition and modernity collide. 

The overall design starts from "immersive experience", and through the integration with the building structure, in the transformation and extension of points and lines, squares and circles, straight and curved, collision and fusion, the exploration of the future habitat concept is launched. When you enter the lobby, the high wood-patterned rock partitions are orderly reflected, forming a sense of vertical extension of the space. The circular lights at the reception desk fall from the ceiling, hiding the wind and gathering air, with a simple Zen feeling. 

Begonia is endowed with elegant emblematic flowers. It is cleverly borrowed from the sky, extracted from the natural growth of flowering branches; the interlocking brick wall shapes in the building are re-evolved and put into the air. Under the design approach of strong sense of overall shape, a large art installation is used to hang above the water bar, becoming the absolute protagonist of the whole space. 

Extending the indoor negotiation area to the outdoor, creating a leisure courtyard with zero distance from nature, creating a tranquil feeling of returning to life under the busy city, extending the decorative atmosphere of the indoor space, reorganizing the spatial order in the interaction of nature, space and people, and creating a template for urban livable life. Comfortable nature in seclusion, the gardens give every life an extra-ordinary spirit and feel the natural aesthetics of infiltrating life in elegant landscaping. The sunken area is facing the windows, with sufficient light and excellent view, people in a hurry in the city can slow down or stop and sit down here, enjoying the tranquility and leisure of returning to nature. 

The deconstructed shape is derived from the extraction and redesign of the hard decoration shape, incorporating the oriental concept of warm as jade, and adding deconstructed details on metal and metallic, with a special general interest. Dotted with greenery, the mood is far-reaching. 

The sight passes through the outdoor courtyard and enters the tea-tasting area, where the artistic yarn with oriental flavor and inverted potted plants inject a soulful brush into the space. The tea table is simple and clear, blending harmonious spatial tones and emphasizing the overall calm and elegant spatial atmosphere, creating the creation of the space. The adjustment of the body's calm and elegant spatial atmosphere creates the creation of the space.