Zhengzhou Longhu Conference Center by Fei Hu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
SilverInterior· 2024
Zhengzhou Longhu Conference Center
by Fei Hu
Client: Fei Hu
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Zhengzhou Longhu Conference Center
It is a modern style design with white marble-shaped curves as the main decorative shape of the space, inspired by the feathers of the phoenix, an ancient Chinese auspicious bird. The changes of light and shadow add a lot of detail to this pure space. Several brown metal plates balance the overall tone, and a coffee colored transparent glass curtain wall is used on both sides of the middle corridor on the second floor to increase the variation of light and color. There is a 17 meter high atrium with a bird's eye view of the effect of the white marble lines.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Zhengzhou Longhu Conference Center is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Zhengzhou Longhu Conference Center is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Zhengzhou Longhu Conference Center is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The phoenix is a mythical bird from ancient Chinese legends, revered as the king of all birds and symbolizing auspiciousness, love, and peace. Zhengzhou, an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, is also where the legend of the phoenix originated. Therefore, the interior design draws inspiration from the theme of the phoenix. The atrium space on the first, second, and third floors is vertically connected, with white curved lines extending up to 16 meters high across the walls, abstractly depicting the graceful flight of the phoenix in a modern style. This design not only aligns with the solemn and dignified nature of a conference center but also creates a pure, modern, and artistically appealing space.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
How to express ancient culture and its positive connotations through modern techniques, especially using modern minimalism to convey Eastern culture, particularly the essence of Zen, is what I particularly aim to achieve.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Let's hope it gets built.
Grand Interview
Your innovative integration of the phoenix mythology into the Zhengzhou Longhu Conference Center's design is striking - could you elaborate on how this ancient Chinese symbolism influenced your modern architectural interpretation, particularly in the 17-meter-high atrium's curved white marble lines?
The phoenix, a divine bird in ancient Chinese mythology, is akin to Aglaea, the goddess in Greek mythology, symbolizing elegance, fortune, and beauty. The most captivating aspect of the phoenix is its posture in flight—free, light, and gracefully dancing with the wind. I sought to capture this moment and make it eternal by using curved white marble lines to portray the form of the phoenix’s fluttering feathers, ultimately assembling them into a grand and emotionally resonant scene.Given the multitude of marble lines, already abundant in form and detail, the use of color needed to be highly restrained. I chose white, representing purity and tranquility. This embodies the essence of Eastern Zen aesthetics: stripping away all excess decoration to create a serene, free, and unencumbered space. At the same time, it exudes a contemporary sense of modernity.
The harmonious balance between traditional Chinese elements and contemporary design aesthetics in the Zhengzhou Longhu Conference Center is remarkable - how did you approach the challenge of creating an internationally appealing space while maintaining strong cultural connections?
Traditional Chinese culture is the treasure of Oriental culture, containing philosophy and art, and is an important medium and driving force to promote the innovation of interior design. I have read a large number of famous Zen landscape paintings of Tang and Song dynasties, studied the handed down Zen gardens such as Lingyin Temple and Lion Forest, and grasped the essence of Zen aesthetics from the paintings and buildings preserved in ancient times, and then reflected these insights into the design. I believe that traditional culture can provide a continuous source of inspiration for modern design.
The interplay of light and shadow throughout the Zhengzhou Longhu Conference Center creates an ever-changing visual experience - what inspired your decision to incorporate coffee-colored transparent glass curtain walls on the second floor, and how does this choice enhance the overall spatial narrative?
If the whole space is white tone, it is undoubtedly risky, because the lack of contrast will appear single, I choose to use coffee-colored glass curtain wall and copper wall on the side of the second floor, it is to break the single tone, increase the level and rhythm of the space. Coffee-colored is actually composed of two materials: transparent glass and copper plate, although the two materials have the same tone, but the texture is completely different. This not only brings rich light and shadow changes, but also does not look cluttered. Meaningful details enhance the overall spatial narrative.
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- Unique Properties
- It is an iconic city landmark, and when completed, the project will become the largest independent pavilion in Zhengzhou, with the ability to host high-level international conferences.
Hu Fei takes Chinese culture as the core concept and the image of dragon and phoenix as the design element. Combined with innovative Oriental Zen design techniques, it presents the image of a national convention center with typical Chinese cultural characteristics and modern and elegant style to the world. - Tags
- Pure, white marble, international, conference center
- Production Technology
- Inside the white marble line is a steel frame structure to ensure that it can be safely fixed on the wall. The top white line is changed to metal plate, and the surface is sprayed with paint with the same texture as marble to ensure the construction safety and effect
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult part of the project was to combine the local traditional culture with the characteristics of the modern conference center in the interior design, which should not only conform to the international mainstream aesthetic, but also express the characteristics of the ancient traditional culture, and match the modern architectural appearance. We have gone through at least 5 rounds of design proposals, and the final draft proposal has basically met the design expectations.
- Inspiration
- The phoenix is a mythical bird in ancient Chinese legends, symbolizing auspiciousness, love, and peace. The legend of the phoenix also originated in Zhengzhou, hence the interior design draws inspiration from the phoenix. The atrium spaces on the first, second, and third floors are interconnected vertically. White curved lines reaching up to 16 meters high run through the entire space, expressing the dynamic posture of the phoenix through abstract modern techniques.
- Project Duration
- The design of the project began in March 2022, formal construction began in June 2023, and it is expected to be completed by the end of 2024, in Zhengzhou, China
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