Where The Root Is Design d'intérieur de bureau by Carlie Ling - K.D Hsu

Where The Root Is Design d'intérieur de bureau by Carlie Ling - K.D Hsu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award d'Argent in Design d'Intérieur Competition Category.

ArgentIntérieur· 2020

Where The Root Is Design d'intérieur de bureau

by Carlie Ling - K.D Hsu

Client: Design Onboard

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Intérieur Category

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The Design

About Where The Root Is Design d'intérieur de bureau

Where The Root Is est un aménagement intérieur de bureau situé dans un immeuble historique du centre de Shanghai. La racine d'un arbre constitue le concept fondamental du projet. Des lignes de bois en noyer foncé parcourent le plafond plat pour évoquer un entrelacement de racines. Un parquet à motifs et des claustras en bois signalent les circulations et les usages, tandis que l'ajourement des écrans laisse passer la lumière et l'air. Un espace d'accueil dédié au thé reçoit les visiteurs et les partenaires professionnels. La moquette grise et le revêtement mural en laine confèrent à la zone de travail une tonalité apaisante, et le bureau de la direction est isolé afin de garantir l'intimité.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Where The Root Is Design d'intérieur de bureau est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent, une reconnaissance énormément prestigieuse décernée à des designs haut de gamme, superbes et impressionnants. Les lauréats Argent sont des œuvres tout à fait brillantes et extrêmement créatives qui illustrent l'expertise, le talent et la perspicacité remarquables de leurs concepteurs. Where The Root Is Design d'intérieur de bureau est censé être une œuvre merveilleuse, une vitrine de savoir-faire, remarquablement professionnelle et profondément innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent est une invention très notable et admirée, qui sert l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Where The Root Is Design d'intérieur de bureau est une création très enviée qui éveille les désirs, apporte des sentiments positifs et suscite émerveillement et étonnement.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The client of this project is a high-achieving young entrepreneur with great strategic view from Shanghai. He Choose the HsingKuo Building, in the center of Shanghai City, to be the location of the headquarter, situated in a historic building imbued with dark walnut-texture design vocabulary so that all guests and employees can be greeted with a traditional Chinese tea-style reception, so that all professional partners can have a relaxing tea-tasting space for interaction.
Dimensions & Packaging: The interior was planned to accommodate guest reception and office usage, with the open-plan layout for the interactive domain when visitors arrived, as the aroma of quality tea inundated the interior made of widely-used walnut texture and color, as well on screens styled based on classic Chinese window lattices while the transparency afforded by the screen providing good ventilation and light penetration.
Tags: Chinese Tea Art, Office, Wooden Screen,Walnut Timber,Grey Color, High-Tech Woven Fabric
Production Technology: With Circular Sky and Square Earth as the design core which borrowed from the ancient Chinese concept of Round Sky as Roof over the Grid of Earth, the flat ceiling intersected with timber line work to manifest the interwoven roots of Trees, an enriched image of premium spatial quality, while patterned timber flooring and wooden grille screen outline circulation and usage demarcation in a subtle yet connective fashion.
Design Challenge: With such old building in Shanghai, the lack of ceiling height, and of column interval, the design featured lightweight ceiling work and darkened walnut flooring so as to connect with repetitive storage volumes that extends the overall spatial-visual, while the timber grille screen brings transparency and layered quality from different angles, as the open and flexible screen also skillfully divided yet casually connected each sub-spaces.
Research: Around the project site, there are many old trees with winding branches and roots framed by black metal window frames, as the exterior greenery was brought into the interior, permeating through glass partitions before forming an array of layered visuals of light, shadow, and trees. As much the interior was given a consistent warmth, it has also become a space for gathering and consolidation via interaction, epitomized by the interwoven eastern ambiance with western simple line work.
Inspiration: With the unique urban qualities of Shanghai that epitomizes the intersection of East and West, this project is located in a residential building of western-influenced exterior and the old Shanghai-styling interior, a unique elegance in itself. The design team utilized the Root as the core design concept, and dark walnut-texture symbolizing Trees and its steadiness, all of which articulated the stern quality the corporation represents.
Project Duration: The project was completed in May 2019 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow: As the office was treated with grey-color carpet and wool wall carpet for a pure and elegant office ambiance, the office of the supervisor was well concealed and separated from the other open spaces, along with its own tea-tasting room furniture by humble chairs and wooden tables from Ming Dynasty, to ensure privacy, while the back of the room was treated with grey tiles covered by high-tech woven fabric, reminiscence of the traditional Chinese wisdom re-interpreted with modern design vocabulary.
Team Members: Kai Ning Ling
Kai Ti Hsu
Image Credits: Kai-Ti Hsu
Zhao Wu
(2019)