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Rather than following traditional see-through logics, the designers dared to think outside the box and offer a fresh interpretation. The result is a stunning suspending orange transparent box that connects the exterior and interior. The bold design not only enriches the urban landscape, but also initiates a dialogue with the neighborhood through its tense colors and unique structure.

The designers effectively separated the interior space from the busy street through the use of a receding lobby facade and the orange glass box. This approach achieves a delicate balance and precise articulation between the bustling energy of the street and the peaceful silence within, creating a fully immersive environment for users to enjoy.

The designers have made a conscious effort to reflect on the urban humanity, responding to the city’s unique style and atmosphere through the scene planning and community setting.

Nantou City, the site of the designer’s adaptive reuse project for an eleven-room guesthouse, is an example of such an urban village. Inspired by the vibrant milieu of the alleyways in Nantou City, the project seeks to reflect on the cultural heritage of the mundane. Scenes of the everyday—people, objects and their settings—are the primary source material for design.

To celebrate life in the urban village, the existing structure was cut into as a massing strategy, allowing such “urban incisions” to foster a new public realm on the inside of the previously private apartment block.

This is an art paint retail space located within a shopping mall.

Through skillful spatial design along a predetermined path, it guides viewers' physical movements and emotional perception. By incorporating the diversity of art paints and progressively integrating product placements, guests gain an understanding of the products while walking, thereby establishing a brand impression.

This approach better fulfills the objectives of showcasing exhibits and selling merchandise for the business.

The design aesthetics draw inspiration from traditional Chinese gardens, capturing the essence of a wandering garden, and translating contemporary aesthetic philosophies within a compact space, thus exploring the relationship between individuals and spatial perception.

A vast amount of information, a huge amount of images brand needs exclusive shape to attract audience diners to identify, judge and choose, but any brand that is not rooted in human emotion, even if more padding and rendering, it is only that after all. Such an outward appearance is a bright orange earth color, jumping out in the gray city facade.

But the lowered eyelids want to reject and welcome, to meet the guidance is not slow, is from the outside to the inside of the natural, water to the water. The interior is rich with clues like old friends who can confide in, help, not reject, not refuse. The long and deep is fascinating. It is the old street of childhood, the spring, the grandmother's kiln, the pervasive warm atmosphere shone in by the winter sun.

Certain and uncertain, it is always a surprise and joy.

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.

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.

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.

As a matter of fact, there is no stereotype for space, nor does the lifestyle. At present, with the emphasis on the sense of experience, the boundary between spaces has gradually become blurred. Therefore, we broke the originally scattered layout and adopted a design with blurry boundaries. However, a flexible separation is created through the flooring, cabinets, and other arrangements, so that the whole space is unfolded in an open and independent way, which breaks the routines of traditional boundaries, and pursues a sense of visual transparency, to endow the space with a kind of open freedom visually.

The design theme is ‘City’. In most movies, stories usually start in a bustling city, therefore, we drew inspiration from the aerial view of cities, presenting the hustle and bustle of cities in a figurative way. ‘Boxes’ in rectangular or trapezoidal shape the ceilings and walls, extending in various heights and angles in the lobby, which is the image of a bustling metropolis with skyscrapers.

Natural marble was used for floor, walls, seating and bar counter. However, using metal panels printed with stone pattern rather than natural stone to create the ceiling was the result of cost control and weight reduction. Considering the sound effect in auditoriums, the space was made with stone patterns printed on cloth.

The geometry of the space is a resemblance of land plots formed by intersecting roads in cities, with the connection of forming a surface field with each other.

Reconstructing mountain residences in the mountainous city of Chongqing, mountain residences have always been a natural life ideal that delves into the essence of the city.

The design is themed on nature, integrating greenery and mountains into the indoor space with a broad perspective, ensuring privacy while breaking through internal and external boundaries. It is embedded with wooden furniture and heavy objects, with the main tone of natural wood as the main tone, forming a harmonious unity, making the sky, rain, temperature, and fresh air observable and perceptible.

The outdoor courtyard also becomes a natural extension of the family scene. Living in the mountains, enjoying the mountains, and thinking about the mountains, truly achieving the goal of staying away from the dust and not leaving the city.

Designer was called upon to design the adaptive reuse of an old warehouse building once used for cotton textile production for the main office and retail concept store for the historical Beijing pastry brand called Lao Ding Feng founded in 1911.

The design concept is inspired in part by the client’s main product, traditional Chinese-style pastries often formed in a decorative mold — the notion that a container may hold or form the shape of its contents within. Here, a new cast concrete object is molded into the old brick shell, its various openings and negative spaces form the main retail, gallery and office spaces.

This project aims to address the increasing prevalence of mental health issues in Hong Kong by promoting the benefits of yoga and meditation. It provides a welcoming and peaceful environment in a serene location to improve people's mental well-being. In terms of design elements, the project integrates the characteristics of strength and flexibility in yoga.

The straight lines in the left wing represent the strength in yoga, with angular shapes symbolizing stability and power. The curves and circular shapes in the right wing represent the flexibility in yoga, symbolizing agility and adaptability. The fusion of these two styles represents the balance of yin and yang in yoga, bringing harmony to the mind and body.

This design concept reflects the principles of softness and hardness, creating a space that is both calming and invigorating.

“Originate – As We Envision, Originate – As We Create.” In 2018, Eric Chan and Suzanne Li co-founded O&O Studio in Hong Kong. The exceptional work under the leadership of both UK ARB registered architects have already earned the design-led studio a success of over 30 international design awards. With an “Out and Outer” attitude, O&O Studio is recognised for nurturing influential design morphology that delivers fresh and exciting values to each commission.

O&O believes that each design shall be originated from a critical and cohesive process of strategic and visual thinking through to the end users’ evaluations, thus informing the next even more successful project.