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Moonlit Garden Wuxi Sales Center by Tomohiro Katsuki

Moonlit Garden Wuxi Sales Center

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2016

Prism Design's Sales Center orchestrates a rich vocabulary of spatial and material symbols that speak to deep cultural traditions surrounding the relationship between constructed shelter and cultivated nature, the threshold between exterior wilderness and interior refuge. The inverted pyramid of suspended vegetation may be understood as an architectural inversion of the traditional tree or cosmic axis, transforming the downward-pointing form into a gesture of abundance descending from above, perhaps evoking associations with celestial gardens or paradise imagery wherein nature's gifts flow from elevated realms into human habitation. The bilateral symmetry and processional axiality of the composition reference longstanding architectural traditions for creating sacred or ceremonial pathways, the central water channel functioning as a symbolic threshold that marks the transition from ordinary commercial transaction into an elevated experiential register. Bamboo, with its profound cultural significance as a symbol of resilience, flexibility, integrity, and scholarly virtue, appears throughout the space as a recurring motif that grounds the contemporary design within traditional material vocabularies while suggesting organic growth patterns that complement the living overhead installation. The reflective floor surface activates archetypal associations with water as mirror, portal, and mediator between realms, doubling the visual field to suggest hidden depths beneath the apparent surface of reality. The warm-cool chromatic dialogue between amber wood tones and verdant plant material may encode complementary principles, suggesting harmonious balance between crafted human intervention and untamed organic vitality. The geometric precision of the overhead frame containing organic profusion speaks to perennial tensions between order and wilderness, cultivation and spontaneity, architectural control and natural exuberance, ultimately proposing their integration rather than opposition as the ideal condition for human flourishing within built environments.

Wuxi place cultural materials of industry such as cloth, iron,bamboo, also Taihu Lake stone. They are tried to make full use of the characteristics of each piece of land,and bring value of an aesthetic sense of Japanese. Also plan to connecting each elements, then it is creating a architectural bond, to be a memorable interactive exhibit space for user. By this They are show a concept of Moonlit and Garden in modern Chinese style.it has also become a facility name.