Metagram has designed the flagship store for Natural is Best, located in the West Kowloon Xiqu Centre for Chinese Opera.

The design draws inspiration from traditional Chinese Opera sets with a contemporary twist, featuring Chinese-inspired detailing and bright colours of deep red and sky blue.

The design creates a theatrical experience for visitors; a distinct central axis draws visitors into the store, dividing zones with a series of ‘moon gates’. Visitors are treated to a cloud-like blanket of lanterns at the entrance, featuring a central arrangement of Chinese-style chests. The main space of the store features a stunning artwork of 瓊花女 (King Fa Lui) set in a bold black circular frame with mesmerizing colored gradient glass.

Visitors can browse the store's many products in a landscape of articulated product displays, enjoying artistic installations and pausing at the central communal bench to enjoy a snack.

The Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts is located at the beginning section of Xi’an’s Datang Everbright City, south of the famed Giant Wild Goose Pagoda. The client asked for a new architectural icon at the East Entry of the museum.

In response to the brief, Designer ’s proposal takes the idea of a monolithic urban monument as the guiding concept to not only satisfy the museum’s newly expanded cultural and commercial functions, but to also serve as an anchor and a durable symbol of social history for the surrounding urban fabric.

Since the vicinity of the site is occupied by existing galleries, the design intervention minimizes the impact of the new building through careful consideration for the architectural massing and detailing.

Concrete piled up in the city mountains, ideal in the mountain, freedom in the mountain.

Through the subtle healing power of matter, spirit and sense, the experiment builds a villa space in the city, allowing the design to reshape the everyday symbols of the home, returning the complexity to nature, and to every waking person, an inner mountain residence.

Through various experimental techniques, we create a language that allows words to enter the sense, and establish a common boundary environment between people and the outside world.

Basing on the analysis of the environment and functions of the restaurant in the whole building, the designer draws inspiration from bamboo weaving, combines bamboo crafts with modern dining space and makes two large white “cavities” in the main space through deconstruction and enlargement. This pair of soft constructions inside the hard space not only reinforce a sense of being contemporary, but also accomplish the genetic impression of the brand by its natural appearance and cultural orientation.

The designer succeeds in changing the previous obscure image of the brand and embedding it in people’s mind by creating a strong eye-catching subject in the space. What’s more, he digs the connection among the brand gene and urban culture and nature, pursuing to root deeper, so that distinct brand memory points can continuously absorb nutrients and grow stronger.

TORCH COMMUNITY is a public service center. We hope to design a glass house with light in it to lead the direction for residents in darkness, which is our motivation of building the Torch Community. The original intention is to offer a public space for those city constructors coming from afar, where they and their children could adapt to the life of urban communities.

It fulfills diverse functions by designing space in different ways. Though the space for designing is very limited, the glass house bring residents inside the feeling of being immersed in outside world while they are actually indoor to avoid depression. The transparent wall not only can decrease borders of buildings nearby, but also extend the settings indoor and embrace more sunshine.

This transparent design would also enhance the integration between community and village, and become a more obvious shelter for children who are in trouble.

Designer was entrusted to design LAK stylish flooring’s new concept store, and carry out design practice in a material exhibition space to showcase the brand’s exploration of material nature. To break away from restriction and limitation of the stereotyped architectural construction methodology, the space design integrates philosophical wisdom into classical music creation to recreate the symphony of space melody and harmony.

On the basis of rational sublimation from classical structure, a symphonic poem is created by the rhythm and melody of the space.

The traditional Chinese courtyard house or siheyuan is a typology well-known for its illustration of Confucian ideals, accommodating extended family units wherein many generations live under one roof. In this project, Designers have explored how notions of communal living and collective memory can be expressed spatially.

The original site featured a lush vegetated edge that formed a natural green buffer along the perimeter, a feature that designers have retained. The new two-story house organizes all communal spaces around a central garden, which occupies the courtyard space serving as a memorial garden for the family’s matriarch.

King's Kindergarten is a school and also a playgroundOther than providing a disciplined learning environment for children, we shall not forget that a kindergarten shall consider children's desire to play.

As the kindergarten building footprint is limited, our design intent is to maximize the ground-level natural play space by extending the external playground into the interior. The idea of the playground is therefore ever-changing. Children's favorite elements such as slides, sand pit, climbing ropes, small hills and curved and angled walls all contribute to completing the ground floor of the school as a play space.

In addition, small cut-out circular windows along the curved walls help children to envision themselves as being within a large ship and explore the corridor following the curved pattern on the floor.