Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020
Vanke Moon Over The Sea Sale Center
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: IAPA Pty. Ltd.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 19,821
- Verification code B860428F93 · Verify this award
About Vanke Moon Over The Sea Sale Center
Vanke Moon Over The Sea is a sales center located in Guangzhou, China. The interior was built inside a former school gymnasium, and the large open hall allows a free ground plan. White terrazzo is used widely and gives the floor a seamless surface. A sculptural staircase made of stainless steel plate and a reception desk of rusted steel form a strong contrast with the white terrazzo. Floating boxes hold the showrooms and a children's activity area above the open space. Windows connect the interior with the exterior.
Paul Bo Peng's Vanke Moon Over The Sea Sale Center exemplifies the refined trajectory of contemporary commercial interior architecture, where spatial experience transcends mere functional accommodation to achieve the contemplative qualities traditionally associated with cultural institutions. The designer appears to engage with minimalist traditions established through East Asian spatial philosophy while simultaneously referencing Western modernist concerns with material honesty and structural expression. The suspended architectural volume that dominates the composition demonstrates exceptional command of tectonic drama, creating a sense of gravity-defying levitation that transforms the mundane program of a sales environment into something approaching the sacred. The corten steel insertions scattered across the white facade may reference traditional Chinese scholar's rocks or window frames in classical garden architecture, their oxidized surfaces embodying the passage of time and natural weathering processes that connect built form to organic transformation. Technical achievement manifests through the seamless integration of dramatically different materials, where the warm patinated metals create visual anchors against the expansive cool surfaces without disrupting the overall harmonic unity. The chromatic restraint operates within an accented neutral schema, allowing material textures and light behavior to provide visual richness rather than applied color. The inclusion of the bare birch tree suggests seasonal awareness and the Japanese aesthetic principle of wabi-sabi, where impermanence and incompleteness carry profound beauty. Furniture selections demonstrate curatorial sensibility, with organic sculptural tables echoing natural forms while providing functional surfaces for client engagement. One might contemplate how this space negotiates the apparent contradiction between commercial purpose and contemplative atmosphere, inviting visitors to consider whether architecture can transform transactional encounters into experiences of aesthetic elevation.
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- Unique Properties
- The project is based on the notion of continuity. As it begins from the red copper rusted steel plate of the reception desk and runs by the staircase through all spaces giving the space a kind of sculptural feeling. The material characteristics from a purely smooth white terrazzo and the red copper rust steel form a very strong contrast making the space more dramatic and interesting. The floating box as the showroom combined windows connecting the interior to the exterior creates a sense of in between space. While on top of that a space for children's activities is considered.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Terrazzo: 1000mm * 1000mm * 20MM
Rusted steel plate: length and width shall be in accordance with the actual size on site, with a thickness of 3mm - Tags
- Sculptural space, spatial continuity, minimalism, floating box, selling and exhibition center
- Production Technology
- White terrazzo is largely used for the project and brings a very high level of seamlessness for the interior space. The staircase is made out of stainless steel plate giving the space a kind of sculptural feeling and using of these two materials creates a strong contrast in the spatial atmosphere of the project.
- Design Challenge
- The project is transformed from a primary gymnasium school with huge hollow space inside into a selling center. At the same time saving and reusing the original equipment, swimming pool structure and functional spaces. Building five sets of model houses as showrooms inside the whole space was also part of the client's demands which needed a very flexible design approach to the project.
- Project Duration
- Designed in 2018
Located in Guangzhou, Guandong, China - Operation Flow
- The building was originally a primary gymnasium school reused into a selling center. Having a huge empty space provided this opportunity to embed make part of the program embedded in a floating box. Keep the ground level as a free plan maximizing the dynamism of the interior space. At the same time let the people to experience it freely in a continuous way, enjoy various spatial qualities and visit diverse spaces.
- Research
- The project tries to take the selling center beyond its formal agencies. As a kind of space that is usually dedicated to their economic return can also be designed in a different way. A pure space for imagination with a cultural domain. The design is seeking for development of spatial qualities that takes the user to various depths of interior space within a dynamic spatial organization system.
- Inspiration
- In Chinese poetry, the Words Sea and moon are often used as metaphors. Sea refers to life or infinite power. Moon is the symbol of hope and emotional expressions. Moon over the sea as the name of the project is a metaphor, which describes a spiritual poetic condition in the project. Moon is translated into the floating boxes hanging like floating objects in the space above a seamless and integrated space as a translation of the sea while the sculptural figurative staircase is connecting them.
- Image Credits
- IAPA
- Patents
- IAPA
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