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Michael Lam's Surely Art Space commands immediate attention through its masterful orchestration of material contrasts, where the pristine sculptural geometry of a sweeping white helical staircase…

Surely Art Space by Michael Lam is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


GoldInterior· 2020

Surely Art Space

by Michael Lam

Client: Surely

Golden A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Surely Art Space

This is an art, casual and retail all combine together in one space. Since the architecture that is a country-operated garment hook sideline factory. The whole building retains a mottled texture of the wall, as a layer texture of the space, create a different contrast with outside, also creates a space experience. Abandon too much hard decoration, used some soft decoration for display that created a relaxing feeling. The contrast between creation and early stage is more flexible for sustainable development of space in the future.

The Recognition

About the Golden A' Design Award

Surely Art 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. Surely Art 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. Surely Art 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
Designers are take time as the starting point of thinking. In the chaotic and decadent old factory, they skillfully use the sense of dislocation in time to create the gap between the inside and the outside, between the object and the space, to show the spatial context of living against the time, appearing along with the time, so as to provide a deeper and meaningful place experience for the viewers.
Dimensions & Packaging
Design area:10763 sq.ft
Tags
Interior, Space, Art, Retail, Photography
Production Technology
Main Material:Special Paint, Terrazzo, Original Solid Wood, Ultra-white Glass
Design Challenge
In the process, the designer and the owner experience the overthrow and replay of the design scheme, the reconstruction and disassembly of the wall, and the continuous replacement of the soft decoration display, which is not so much full of various imperfect factors, but rather a design co creation process in which both parties continuously influence each other.
Research
Shortly after the project was put into operation, without marketing planning, it quickly became a hot topic in Hangzhou, China, and one of the most popular art punch points in the country. It is a space for photography and art, a new benchmark of the industry and a new fashion stronghold in the city.
Inspiration
The whole building retains the mottled and contiguous texture of the wall, transforms into the uniform skin texture of the indoor space, and falls behind the outdoor environment, creating a sense of surprise for the viewer to invert the time, creating a unique space experience, secondly, abandoning too much hard decoration, releasing more relaxed space for high-quality soft display. And display, create the contrast with the base of the original space.
Project Duration
The project started in Hangzhou, China in March 2018 and was completed in Hangzhou, China in 2019.
Operation Flow
According to time, weather and unpredictable natural light, the designer enters the room through the opening to form rich shadows and lines, so that the space can get rid of boredom and become active. After moving to the interior space of the main building, the walls are cleaned, showing a mottled and rough texture again, giving off a simple atmosphere, thick and stable. The exquisite art installation is in a corner, embracing the whole space in an introverted way.
Image Credits
All pictures:Da qi Zhang / Michael Lam (Designer)

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