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Can Zhang

Hotel

Monday, 27 May 2024

Bodu Resort

Bodu Resort is a resort hotel located in Xishuangbanna, China. The hotel stands on a cliff forty meters above the ground and faces a rubber forest and a tropical rain forest. A suspended glass box extends from the building toward the surrounding trees and opens the interior to the landscape. Teak and old elm form the main structure. Brick, stone and woven bamboo, common in local villages, echo the regional culture. Local materials were selected to reflect local color and texture. The project covers 4000 square meters.

Yue Ding

Office

Sunday, 26 May 2024

Greenland Intercity Space Station

Greenland Intercity Space Station is an office interior located in Nanjing, China. The design covers an area of 5000 square meters and replaces the traditional standardized layout with an open and collaborative plan. The independent work areas are shaped as boxes stacked at different scales. Large light colored stone surfaces add a sense of depth. The lobby is high and spacious, and the floors have no clear boundaries. Staircases pass through the building structure and link the public areas, while stepped wooden stairs offer extra seating for meetings, lectures and events.

Legang Sun, Songtao Meng, Xiaoxue Ai

Resort Hotel

Saturday, 25 May 2024

Kanglaibo

Kanglaibo is the interior design of a resort hotel located in the Baianshan National Forest Park in Jiangxi Province, China. The hotel is a single building of 16,000 square meters with 19 floors. The first floor holds the lobby, bar and breakfast restaurant, floors two to four hold dining and meeting spaces, and floors five to nineteen hold guest rooms and suites. Hakka culture guides the interior, with local stone, ceramics and traditional woodcut artworks. A temperature controlled water system serves the hot spring baths and saves natural hot spring resources.

Qingtao Ji

Office Space

Friday, 24 May 2024

Spring Breeze

Spring Breeze is an office space in Kunming, Yunnan, China. The project is the renovation of a single-family steel-structured building with an indoor area of 1000 square meters. A wooden hanging house was built inside the original structure with traditional techniques, using tenon and mortise joints without nails. Two rows of columns and beams support the suspended rooms and corridors. A double-wall design controls the sunlight entering the work area through the glass facade. The wooden house forms a visual contrast with the steel building.

Michele Berdugo

Exhibition Design

Thursday, 23 May 2024

Smart City

Smart City is an exhibition design created for an international municipal innovation exhibition and conference held in Tel Aviv, Israel. The design covers 3000 square meters and includes a registration hall, a VIP lounge, business meeting rooms, conference stages and a gala venue. The concept is based on a vertical city rising above an increasingly urbanized world. Hanging and geometric elements are made of aluminum, plexiglass and mesh to keep the weight low. Printed carpets, light boxes and greenery installations complete the setting.

Muchuan Xu

Public Center

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Jinan Cultural Sport and Archives

Jinan Cultural Sport and Archives is an interior design for a public center in the Lixia district of Jinan. The center brings together archives, sports halls, cultural service facilities and senior care facilities. The atrium acts as a hub that connects the floors and leads visitors to each area. The circulation was reorganized, the escalator positions were adjusted, and unused public areas were turned into shared social spaces. Scattered green platforms on the atrium facade recall the mountains and rivers of Jinan.

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Bodu Resort

Greenland Intercity Space Station

Kanglaibo

Spring Breeze

Smart City

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