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Warm honey-toned wooden columns rise majestically through Liang Wei's Shanghai Wzt Aristo Pavilion Interior Design, their aged patina and traditional carved corbels creating a visual dialogue between…

Shanghai Wzt Aristo Pavilion Interior Design by Shanghai Wei Design Co. Ltd is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


SilverInterior· 2024

Shanghai Wzt Aristo Pavilion Interior Design

by Shanghai Wei Design Co. Ltd

Client: Shanghai Wei Design Co..Ltd

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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About Shanghai Wzt Aristo Pavilion Interior Design

Shanghai Wzt Aristo Pavilion is a cultural exhibition interior covering 600 square meters in Xuhui District, Shanghai. The design promotes traditional Chinese culture and draws on the Huizhou architecture of the Jiangnan region in China. Beams and columns, once purely load bearing, are reused and displayed as central elements of the interior. Column bases are carved with Huizhou stone carving techniques, showing plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum as the four seasons. A minimalist long table with transparent acrylic panels joins modern and traditional elements.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Shanghai Wzt Aristo Pavilion Interior Design 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. Shanghai Wzt Aristo Pavilion Interior Design 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. Shanghai Wzt Aristo Pavilion Interior Design is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The interior design of Aristo Mansion, committed to promoting the exchange of traditional Chinese culture, distinguishes itself from the conventional neo-Chinese design style. The project exhibits beams and columns, which are integral load-bearing structures in traditional Chinese architecture, as part of the interior design. This not only embodies the structural aesthetics of Chinese architecture but also ensures the utility of the space. Additionally, it accents the harmonious integration of the functionality of the structure with its ornamental aspects.
Dimensions & Packaging
The area is 600m²
Tags
Culture, Tradition, Modernity, Space, Design, Chinese Studies
Production Technology
To restore the original beam and column structure interiorly, the project reuses components. The column bases are intricately carved using Huizhou stone carving techniques, symbolizing the alternating of four seasons represented by Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum. The desktop crafted from transparent acrylic panels delivers a visually appealing experience where modern and traditional spaces reflect and complement each other.
Design Challenge
Making an accurate trade-off between modernity and tradition, and achieving a harmonious coexistence without conflict, poses a great challenge in the field of design. The minimalist long table and its accompanying cushions seamlessly integrate modern elements. The minimalist design language not only reconciles with modern aesthetics, but also upholds the continuity of blending to the traditional environment without surprise.
Research
Making an accurate trade-off between modernity and tradition, and achieving a harmonious coexistence without conflict, poses a great challenge in the field of design. The minimalist long table and its accompanying cushions seamlessly integrate modern elements. The minimalist design language not only reconciles with modern aesthetics, but also upholds the continuity of blending to the traditional environment without surprise.
Inspiration
The project is inspired from the essence of ancient architecture in the Jiangnan region of China, particularly the architectural style of Huizhou. This style has drastically influenced the conceptualization of the project. The design team extensively studied the core components of Huizhou architecture, such as column bases and wax gourd beams, along with other iconic structural elements. This enables them to link traditional with modern design contexts.
Project Duration
At the entrance of the architectural space, the hanging wall structure, a sort of suspended partition, only unveils a rocky landscape and atomized water beneath the suspended interface. Actually a pine tree is concealed behind this hanging wall which holds great significance in Chinese culture as a symbol of perseverance, nobility and non-corruption. Through the clever installation of this pine tree, it metaphorically embodies the traditional Chinese virtue of a "gentleman" characterized by modesty and reservation.
Operation Flow
The project kicked off on March 2021 in Xuhui District, Shanghai, and is scheduled to be finalized and put into operation by September 2021.
Team Members
Wei Liang, Feng Weiqiang, Yang Hongdan, Huang Weishan, Huang Qinbang

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