Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020
Shenzhen Innest Art Co., Ltd.'s architectural composition for this sales center encodes multiple layers of cultural meaning through its material choices, spatial organization, and formal vocabulary, creating an environment rich in archetypal resonance and carefully constructed significance. The undulating wooden ceiling functions as a profound reference to natural landscape forms, specifically mountains and water, themes central to East Asian aesthetic philosophy where the dynamic interplay between peak and valley, solid and void, carries philosophical weight regarding harmony, balance, and the relationship between humanity and nature. The wood grain's horizontal striations suggest both geological time and the patient growth of living trees, connecting visitors to organic cycles and natural processes that transcend commercial transaction. The grey-veined marble of the reception desk introduces the mountain archetype through mineral form, its diagonal veining evoking mountainside strata and the sublime power of geological formation, while the cool blue-grey coloration suggests water, mist, and the atmospheric effects that characterize traditional landscape painting traditions. The brand signage incorporates a simplified mountain symbol that makes explicit this landscape reference, anchoring the entire spatial narrative in terrain iconography. The stepped columnar forms flanking the composition reference architectural traditions of monumental entrances and processional sequences, their vertical articulation creating threshold markers that distinguish the reception zone as a space of arrival and welcome. Bronze and gold metallic accents carry ancient associations with preciousness, durability, and solar warmth, elevating the material register toward refined hospitality. The luminous aperture at center functions as a symbolic portal, suggesting continuation, possibility, and the promise of experience beyond the threshold, a classic architectural device for creating anticipation and spatial narrative. The glass lantern introduces craft tradition and domestic warmth, while the geometric brass sculpture suggests contemporary artistic sensibility. Together, these elements create an environment that positions commercial function within frameworks of natural beauty, cultural continuity, and contemplative refinement.
Located in the center of Changle District, Fuzhou City, the project Changle Lanshan Sales Center integrates the profound culture here as well as the oriental conception of mountains, seas and gardens with the modern architecture to honor the elegant, poetic oriental lifestyle. With both the oriental elements and the modern, the architecture creates an artistic conception in space with art and culture, blending the nature and spirit into the truth of life.