Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020
Lihpao Plaza Shopping Mall
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Mas
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 26,687
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About Lihpao Plaza Shopping Mall
Lihpao Plaza is a shopping mall interior design created in China. The interior covers 100,000 square meters across two levels of retail and themed dining areas. Six themed zones guide visitors through the mall, using zigzag alleys, stairs and red lanterns, light and shadow with window grilles, books combined with stairs, and botanical elements. Common materials were selected to meet the construction schedule and budget. Virtual reality and three-dimensional interactive projection form interactive spaces. The layout supports leisure, shopping and entertainment in one place.
Lihpao Plaza Shopping Mall by Alex Chiang emerges from the contemporary tradition of experiential retail design that transforms commercial spaces into immersive environments where shopping becomes a multisensory journey rather than mere transaction. This Golden A' Design Award-winning interior demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how atmospheric design elements can establish distinctive brand identity while facilitating intuitive wayfinding and creating memorable spatial experiences. The suspended ceiling installation of wooden crate-form luminaires represents a masterful translation of market vernacular into contemporary design language, where humble fruit crates become sculptural lighting elements that reference agricultural heritage while providing functional ambient illumination. The compositional strategy employs material juxtaposition with considered precision, balancing the industrial honesty of the exposed charcoal ceiling against the warmth of natural timber cladding, the artisanal character of decorative ceramic floor tiles against the contemporary clarity of glass and steel. The trompe l'oeil brick wall installation featuring dimensional fruit characters emerging through broken masonry demonstrates playful narrative integration that speaks to the food-focused programming of the space while delighting visitors with unexpected whimsy. The towering vertical produce display functions simultaneously as chromatic sculpture, wayfinding landmark, and thematic reinforcement, its stacked arrangement of simulated fruits and vegetables creating visual abundance that celebrates culinary culture. Technical accomplishment appears throughout in the precise alignment of linear wood elements, the careful calibration of lighting temperatures, and the seamless integration of diverse materials into cohesive spatial narrative. One might consider how such environments reshape our relationship with commercial space, transforming routine activities into opportunities for aesthetic pleasure and community gathering, inviting contemplation of how design can elevate everyday experience.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The site is on the northwestern corner of the Shanghai Hongqiao Central Business District, close to the open green belt and Hongqiao traffic hub,include Hongqiao airport and railway station.
Lihpao Plaza is a shopping mall with story scenes constructed by Art and technology. From the four major genes of life aesthetics, community service, family growth and innovation and entertainment, the theme of entertainment is to create a new experiential shopping mall. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The interior design area of the project totals 100,000 square meters. The six different themes of commercial space, which run through two floors of the ground, are equipped with a corresponding style bathroom, and equipped with a certain proportion of maternal and child rooms, barrier free toilets, vertical lift and multiple escalators. The two floors of B1 and M are commercial retail and theme catering blocks.
- Tags
- Immersive experience, Urban paradise, Humanities, nature, art, Technology
- Production Technology
- The main concept of project is based on the combination of art and technology. We choose the normal materials to satisfy the schedule and budget of the construction. With"happiness" as the theme,recreate the Taiwanese theme park of reminiscence by zigzag alleys, stairs and red lanterns. To transform Zen and Kyoto style creates the natural space by light, shadow and window grilles. Using the books and stairs create the cultural market. To create the recreational court by botanic elements and butterflies. Create a interactive smart space through new technologies such as "VR" and "3D interactive projection".
- Design Challenge
- 1. The project belongs to the commercial design project of China's first-tier cities. How to create a shopping mall fitting the consumption structure of the city, and creating a memorable shopping space .
2. The limitations of the original structure of the existing building, such as low floor height, large beam height, the form of picking holes is not ideal, etc., how to design with the original framework as the guideline to continue the soft and beautiful space intention, showing the theme image of the shopping center that can be remembered. - Project Duration
- The project design was started in April 2017 in Shanghai, China, and was completed in April 2018. The mall was opened in Nanyang, China in October 2019.
- Operation Flow
- The whole theme boutique business will from life aesthetics, community service, growth, innovation, entertainment four gene family, with the breakthrough of design methods to build multiple high space, creating six characteristic topic space, from planning to the layout of the formats and manuscript design, from the perspective of each consumer, the business line optimization, for commercial center to guide the rational flow of customers, satisfy consumers leisure, shopping and entertainment as a one-stop consumption demand.
- Research
- The site is on the northwestern corner of the Shanghai Hongqiao Central Business District, close to the open green belt and Hongqiao traffic hub(include Hongqiao airport and railway station).
The project location is due to the regional investment strategy of the comprehensive consideration, emphasizes the combination of shopping and interactive experience, through to the regional division to redefine the spirit of the space, in order to increase consumer cognition and memory, is a kind of convenient shopping, entertainment. - Inspiration
- From the perspective of modern urban park design, with the breakthrough of the topic space design gimmick to build six characteristics,named by The Feast of jiufen,He Feng Ri Li,Liu Mang Wu,The Secret Garden,The Future World,The Vivid Food Court and so on. From the perspective of each consumer, emphasizes the combination of shopping and spatial experience, to increase consumer's perception of place and memory. Create an experience space that can be perceived, read and remembered by consumers.
- Image Credits
- #1: Photographer Siye Zhang, The Feast of jiufen, 2019
#2: Photographer Siye Zhang, He Feng Ri Li, 2019
#3: Photographer Siye Zhang, Liu Mang Wu, 2019
#4: Photographer Siye Zhang, The Secret Garden, 2019
#5: Photographer Siye Zhang, The Future World, 2019
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