Morph Primary Function: Bar, Local de Eventos by Dongzi Yang and Qianyi Lin

Morph Primary Function: Bar, Local de Eventos by Dongzi Yang and Qianyi Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Prata in Deseño de Espazos Interiores e de Exposición Competition Category.

PrataInteriorismo· 2020

Morph Primary Function: Bar, Local de Eventos

by Dongzi Yang and Qianyi Lin

Client: Various Associates

A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Interiorismo Category

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The Design

About Morph Primary Function: Bar, Local de Eventos

Book Text: Morph é un bar e local de eventos en Shenzhen, China, cunha superficie total de construción de 1.000 metros cadrados. O interior combina materiais tradicionais chineses con formas estruturais modernas. A paleta de cores de vermello, azul, negro, amarelo e dourado inspírase na Cidade Prohibida e nos Cinco Elementos. As áreas funcionais están dispostas arredor dun espazo central de actividade de 7 metros de altura, con capacidade para 100 persoas e acústica de teatro. Un entrepiso e unha estrutura curva de dobre altura dividen e definen o espazo. As instalacións espaciais pódense modificar para adaptarse a diferentes eventos.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Prata

Morph Primary Function: Bar, Local de Eventos gañou o A' Design Award de Prata, un recoñecemento enormemente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de gama alta, fermosos e impresionantes. Os gañadores Prata son obras tremendamente brillantes e sumamente creativas que ilustran a pericia, o talento e a agudeza sobresaíntes dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Morph Primary Function: Bar, Local de Eventos sexa unha obra marabillosa, escaparate de oficio, notablemente profesional e profundamente innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Prata é unha invención moi notable e admirada que beneficia e fai avanzar os límites da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía. Morph Primary Function: Bar, Local de Eventos é unha creación moi envexada que esperta desexos, achega sentimentos positivos e prende asombro e marabilla.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: According to the project designers' understanding, evolution indicates progress and variation. Taking account into the context of Shenzhen - a new city, they wanted to utilize some traditional and local materials to collide with the modern interior structural forms, thereby presenting the"evolution" of design. The designers' idea is to realize collisions within the space through a diversified material palette, contrasting interior scenes as well as division of multiple functional areas.
Dimensions & Packaging: MORPH is a mixed-use space with a total construction area of 1,000 sqm.
The key design intervention of the project is the creation of a mezzanine. Another bold intervention is to insert a slightly oblique and curved double-height structure into the geometric space, which can link, partition and define the space, and highlight spatial identity and increase brightness.
Tags: Evolution, restaurant, bar, lounge, Various Associates, five elements, traditional material in new use, sustainable material
Production Technology: The color palette is inspired by the Forbidden City, consisting of red, blue, black, yellow and gold, which feature extremely high saturation and are consistent with the colors of Wu Xing (Wu Xing is also named as the Five Elements, which includes metal, wood, water, fire and earth. )
The designers combined diversified modern materials with traditional materials exclusive in China.
Design Challenge: The greatest challenge was how to incorporate their thinking into the spatial design and at the same time to combine and transform traditional Chinese elements with modern designs. The color palette is inspired by the Forbidden City, consisting of red, blue, black, yellow and gold, which feature extremely high saturation and are consistent with the colors of Wu Xing (Wu Xing is also named as the 5 Elements, which includes metal, wood, water, fire and earth.
Research: Through this project, the designers explored and worked out a solution to tackle with the oblivion and disappearing of traditional Chinese materials:not only, adopting unique design approaches to innovate the way of using traditional materials and redefine them in modern designs; but also, integrating China-specific materials with modern technologies, materials and designs, so as to break through the limits of traditional materials utilization and realize "re-design with old material".
Inspiration: Located in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China MORPH is a mixed-use space with a total construction area of 1,000 sqm. With an urban park and Houhai business circle nearby, it's a rare tranquil place amidst the hustle and bustle of the downtown area. "MORPH" means transformation and evolution in Chinese. The client hopes to build a vigorous and brand new social space, to introduce and hold various cultural, artistic and musical events, with a view to bringing new vitality to the city.
Project Duration: Started from: August, 2018
Completed in:July, 2019
Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Operation Flow: MORPH is a bar, an event venue and a transformable space, available for facilitating "interaction between human and city" in cultural context. Functional areas are set around a 7-meter-high activity space at the center. With capacity for 100 people, theatre acoustics, and spatial installations which can be replaced irregularly, it's adaptive to various types of activities and provides local people with a fantastic place to socialize.
Team Members: Project leader: Qianyi Lin
Chief designer: Dongzi Yang
Designers: Dongzi Yang, Jingjing Tang
Image Credits: Photographs: Shao Feng