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White - ZS Lab

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Single-Brand Store
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Christopher Lye
Christopher Lye Principal at Woods Bagot
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Katrina Yin
Katrina Yin Design Manager at JDS Development Group
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Victoria Schneyer
Victoria Schneyer Global Head of Store Design at Hugo Boss
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Norman-Henner Plattner
Norman-Henner Plattner Head of Store Development at The KaDeWe Group
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John Lam
John Lam Co-Founder and Design Strategist at State of Culture
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Tessa Mansfield
Tessa Mansfield Chief Creative Officer at Stylus
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Andras Klopfer
Andras Klopfer Managing Partner at BWM Retail
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Agata Kurzela
Agata Kurzela Founder and Design Director at Agata Kurzela Studio
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David Wei
David Wei Cofounder and Design Director at Hatch Architects
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Gokhan Avcioglu
Gokhan Avcioglu Principal and Founder at Global Architecture Development
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Lene Utbjoe
Lene Utbjoe Discipline Lead at Henning Larsen
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Eric Wang
Eric Wang Head of Marketing and E-Commerce APAC at Duravit
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Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed
Benjamin Iborra Wicksteed Partner and Creative Director at Mesura
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Leilei Wu
Leilei Wu Partner at F.O.G. Architecture
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White-ZSlab is a new format retail store with dual-function, which combines retail commercial stores and designer offices. White, a concept of Chinese classical literature, which means a kind of pure, empty and quiet mentality and attitude, is used as the starting point for the concept of the project. Even though in a narrow street, the building is distinguished by its own independent but friendly open architectural expression. Meanwhile, the keynote of the overall design of the inner space is to expressa calm attitude of getting along with nature, neighborhood and humanity. White in the East has always been a concept. From the “white drawing” - a technique of line drawing in Chinese painting, to the “white remaining” - the intention of leaving blank while drawing, until the concept of"emptiness" under a religious perspective, the understanding of “white”can be a milestone upgrading of collective thinking. Actually, "white" is often used in modern Western architecture,but the "white" stands for simple design and straightforward expression. The "white" concept, was born in the East. Zhuangzi has shown his understanding of “white” in Ren Jian Shi: Only when the room is “white” (empty) can the sun shine in. At that time, "white" still had some substantial content on the brink of nihilism, such as silence, the meaning of useless or the wisdom of not knowing. The interpretation of "white" by Zhuangzi had its functional usage. He tried to use this kind of attitude to explain a flexible relationship, and this was also his way of life. Therefore, we take Zhuangzi’s "white" and frame a building in a specific environment. It is not to show, in essence, the extreme simplicity of popular modernism design (but we do not refuse or care either). What it expresses is the mentality of calm. No matter the role settling of a small building in a narrow street, or the expression of a new brand in its beginning, the sense of calm and openness are all the decisions at the beginning of thinking and drafting. The decision is greater than and controls all forms of the whole scheme afterward. The"white" in the creation process is not the whiteness and simplicity in the logical form. It has special meanings of calm and quietness, andwe incorporate it into the architecturethrough techniques.