Silver Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2022
Gemdale the Voyager Sales Office
- A' Design Award 2022 Silver Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Smart House Library
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 14,619
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About Gemdale the Voyager Sales Office
Gemdale the Voyager is a sales office in Kunming, China, with an area of 980 square meters. The interior design extends the minimalist architectural style and uses curved surfaces and concise lines as the main elements. A glass curtain wall connects the indoor and outdoor areas, so visitors can view the surrounding landscape from any perspective. Lake blue and earth tones are combined with beige and dark coffee colors. Cotton and linen fabrics add a natural character. Sail motifs in the hall refer to the local culture.
Within the distinguished lineage of contemporary exhibition and sales environment design, this interior by Smart House Library demonstrates exceptional synthesis of spatial dramaturgy and functional communication. The composition achieves a rare equilibrium between commanding architectural gesture and intimate visitor engagement through its masterful deployment of a centralized sculptural model table whose organic form appears to hover within the generous volume. The designers appear to have drawn upon traditions of museum exhibition practice, translating institutional gravitas into commercial context while maintaining an atmosphere of unhurried contemplation rather than transactional urgency. The cartographic wall element functions as both informational graphic and aesthetic composition, its carefully calibrated color relationships suggesting terrain and waterway through abstracted chromatic coding. Technical accomplishment reveals itself in the seamless integration of linear ceiling fixtures that establish rhythmic visual cadence while providing layered illumination that models the central display with theatrical precision. The material vocabulary speaks to contemporary luxury sensibilities through its emphasis on natural timber warmth balanced against crisp architectural whites, creating an environment that feels simultaneously welcoming and sophisticated. Thematic resonance emerges through the recurring water motif, from the brilliant blue of the model's shoreline to the fluid curves of the display table itself, perhaps evoking themes of journey, discovery, and the meeting of land and sea that the project's name suggests. The spatial narrative unfolds through carefully orchestrated sight lines that reveal secondary exhibition zones through framed apertures, inviting continued exploration. One might consider how this environment transforms the commercial transaction of property acquisition into an experience of aspiration and imagination, where visitors are invited to project themselves into future landscapes rendered in miniature before them.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The project is located in Yunnan, a historical city with splendid natural scenery. In order to integrate with nature, the architecture facade is featured with naturalization, modernization, simplicity, and refinement. The whole project is abstracted into a minimalist form, and a glass curtain wall is used to connect the indoor and outdoor, which reflects the beauty of the mutual penetration of modern architecture and nature.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- With an area of 980 square meters, the sales office highlights the integration with nature and local culture. Extending the architectural style, the overall interior design adopts curved surfaces and concise lines as the main design elements.
- Tags
- interior design, sales center, color, material, modern
- Production Technology
- In order to unify the interior and exterior, the color is integrated with nature. The lake blue and earth color are selected as the palette to achieve a state of harmony with the scenery. The classic beige and dark coffee colors that represent the combination of tradition and fashion are boldly used. Among them, the use of cotton and linen fabrics increases the breath of nature in the space, highlights the dialogue with nature.
- Design Challenge
- To maximize the transparency of space, the lighting of the floor-to-ceiling glass is designed so that visitors can enjoy the outdoor scenery from any perspective.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2019 and finished in September 2019 in Kunming, China.
- Operation Flow
- Taking advantage of the open view of the surrounding landscape, the large space must be sensitive and friendly to the environment in terms of color relations, so the cultural elements of sails are adopted in the hall to express the refinement of the local culture.
- Research
- With a flexible design, the space changes with historical context and environment. The furnishing is more like a dialogue with nature, with itself, and with life. From the visual color, the sense of touch and the feedback of light and shadow on the object, it is a comprehensive aesthetic experience of life.
- Inspiration
- Inspired by the collision of modernity and tradition, the project is a blending of ideal and reality, creating an ideal space with a unique and elegant style. The interior design uses modern language to re-interpret the national cultural characteristics so that the overall space turns out to be flexible, elegant, and distinct. The full use of natural light and the catalysis of materials greatly enhance the temperament and beauty of the space.