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Yintai Metropolitan Art Gallery

EH Design Group

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Client
Li Shui Intime City
Floor area
1000 ㎡
Completion
2020
Design Firm

Adopting the concept of “natural landscape city”, the design of Yintai Metropolitan Art Gallery draws inspiration from nature, integrating elements of mountains and water into the architectural work. The designer, EH DESIGN GROUP, arranged the interior space of the gallery with simplicity as emphasized in a neo-modernist way. The color white runs through the whole space, across its different curves and shapes, creating a landscape of mountains and water blended with a futuristic and urban feel. The arc-shaped design breaks the boundaries between indoor and outdoor, creating a feeling of abundant nature, humanity, and art. It seems that the whole space has been dissolved into a natural state, with curves moving leisurely to a silent rhythm like clouds or flowing water. The designers leveraged their indoor architecture expertise to create the interior space and visitor experience. The white curved surfaces continuously wind and twist upward. Connections or dislocations between different layers serve as vivid imitations of water ripples and mountain peaks. At the sand table area, the designers displayed the brilliantly imaginative artworks in a clever way. Through interactions between people and objects, feelings are channeled outwards, and people’s anticipations and expectations for both daily life and the future are expressed. A dynamic device designed by famous Japanese artist Susumu Shingu entitled “A Spaceship” hangs from the ceiling, creating a poetic feeling of dialogue between humanity and nature. The freedom and ease which the curves bestow upon the design represent the vitality and glow of the younger generation. The winding light bands are perfectly integrated into the space, radiating soft light, and creating an exquisite and serene atmosphere. Natural light enters the gallery from all sides, flowing along the curved surfaces. Visitors in the room can clearly perceive the presence of the light and begin a dialogue with nature. The white spiral staircase winds along with smooth and subtle curves, bringing a gentle tension that not only expands the dimensions of the space, but also brings about multiple changes in the perspectives of visitors, and granting more imagination to the unknown space. The “ripples”-like spiral around the “vortex core” and its various structural layers make a strong visual impact on the viewers.Soft colors make the space both elegant and cozy. The art, independent of life, is also infinitely close to life. EH DESIGN GROUP uses multiple art & design techniques like interspersing, deconstruction and curved lines to create a transparent and fluid art exhibition space parallel to life itself, helping art to penetrate into people’s daily lives, and make the gallery an experience at once both inseparable from, and in contrast to, the city as a whole.