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Warm honey-toned oak dominates Tina Sheng's Read Life Cultural Space, where floor-to-ceiling modular shelving systems create a rhythmic vertical architecture that transforms retail function into…

Read Life Cultural Space by Tina Sheng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


GoldInterior· 2020

Read Life Cultural Space

by Tina Sheng

Client: Beijing Serendipper Space Design Co.ltd

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Read Life Cultural Space

Read Life is a shared cultural space designed for public reading. The project covers 815 square meters on two floors. The first floor holds the main reading area, a bread shop, a small supermarket and a cafe. Floor-to-ceiling display cabinets near the entrance carry plants, which add indoor greenery and help purify the air. Tall book walls define the character of the reading area. The second floor surrounds the open central space and contains an art gallery and a children's play area. The design connects books and people and supports the exchange of knowledge.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Read Life Cultural Space is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Read Life Cultural Space is expected to be a highly praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Read Life Cultural Space creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.

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Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Symbiosis has been one of the common relationships between the biological world and human society, enlightening the design of public reading space as well. In this shared space, people rest, read and cogitate. This is also a space where people enjoy a moment of calm, have a cup of coffee, and savor food. The design of shared space carries out the multiple functions and the diversified developments of space, and progressively becomes the crucial strength promoting the social developments.
Dimensions & Packaging
The property is 815 square meters.
Tags
Books, Shared space, cafe, multifunction, art
Production Technology
The 1st floor is the composite space encompassing the main reading area, the bread shop, the small supermarket, the café, etc. Alongside the building entrance, the floor-to-ceiling display cabinets adorned with plants on the vertical scale unite the organic, indoor greening, air purifying functions, etc. that correspond to the concept of interior design.
Design Challenge
The 2nd floor surrounding the tall indoor space has the art gallery and children’s play area, where the capacious environment is comfy for playing and reading activities. Staying in the tall and open space, people have the different experiences of reading and life. This is the space not only connects books and people, also enhance the communications of knowledge and life among people.
Inspiration
Life concerns more on the pursuit of spirit. We should be grateful and contribute to the society with the limited resources and conditions. This is the intent of design, making reading communal and making life universal.
Project Duration
The project finished in October 2018, locates in Henan, China.
Operation Flow
The towering cabinets disclose the magnificent momentum. The design of book walls fascinatingly resembles the movie scene in “Roman Holiday,” in which the actress Audrey Hepburn first met the actor. The space characters are distinct from the general impression to a reading area. The café, behind the reading area, is embellished with the sufficient daylight and the elegant colors and adornments consistently conformed to the main design skills. The stair lighting, from the 1st to 2nd floor, is gorgeous.
Team Members
Director: Tina Sheng

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