Wu Club by Peihe Xie is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.

BronzeInterior· 2021

Wu Club

by Peihe Xie

Client: AD ARCHITECTURE (Shenzhen)

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Wu Club

Wu is an interior design for a Chaoshan cuisine restaurant and club in Shantou, Guangdong. The venue covers 600 square meters and contains private dining rooms, a tea room, a cigar bar, a whisky bar and an audio and video room. Polygonal planes, slanting structures and floating forms shape the interior and give the space a sculptural character. Paint in varied hues and textures is combined with a timber floor and stone surfaces. Light creates a calm and mysterious atmosphere. Western design order is applied to interpret Oriental spatial qualities.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Wu Club is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Wu Club is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Wu Club splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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Color Temperature: WarmSymmetry: Both DirectionsBackground: No Clear Backdrop

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Polygonal planes, slanting structures and "floating" forms are brought into the space, which challenges established architectural values and releases imagination.
Irregular geometric shapes break with the convention, and indicate an attitude of exploring undefined order and an experiment of achieving self-worth.
The space is conceived as a broken and void sculpture, which features dramatic expressions and artistic tension.
Dimensions & Packaging: Project Area: 600 sqm
Main Materials: Foamed Aluminium, Moorgen Smart System, Metal Net, Rock Slab, Paint, Timber Floor, SIKI Lighting
Tags: Club, Chaoshan cuisine, AD ARCHITECTURE, Xie Peihe, Light
Production Technology: The design team adopted a creative and experimental approach to express paint, which is given different hues and textures. Besides, the wooden floor and stone materials form a contrast. The solid and the soft, the cool and the warm, collide yet harmonize with each other. Moreover, elements such as humor, mystery and dream are incorporated into the space.
Design Challenge: The project is a multi-functional venue that consists of dining area, bar, cigar room, tea room, etc. Therefore, the challenge lies in how to create a balance design that blends dynamic and silent spaces.
Research: This space brings people into another world, which is like a virtual world in films. It's surreal, dramatic and abstract, showing a futurist image. In addition, it's storytelling as well. The space connects a series of activities, and forms an interesting and theatrical scene.
Inspiration: It's a new Chaoshan cuisine restaurant & club, which bears the mission of carrying forward Chaoshan cuisine. Composed of private dining rooms, a tea room, a cigar bar, a whisky bar and an audio/video room, it adopts a novel operation concept and provides a unique spatial environment. The designer conceived it as a kind of modern energy and applied an advanced design concept, aiming to create a "tentative" spatial state: the space is endowed with value and defined by what happens in it.
Project Duration: Design Time: January 2020
Completion Time: July 2020
Project Location: Shantou, Guangdong
Operation Flow: The designers accentuated light since it's a visible substance, and intended to convey the spiritual world through the materiality of light. Light produces a mysterious, tranquil ambience whilst evoking emotions and illusionary effects.
As approaching the project, the design team tried to apply Western design order to create and interpret Oriental spatial qualities and philosophy.
Team Members: Chief designer: Xie Peihe
Design team: AD ARCHITECTURE
Image Credits: Ouyang Yun