Omg Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena by OMG Architecture

Omg Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena by OMG Architecture is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Loko Hale a me Hōʻike Competition Category.

KalaLoko Hale· 2021

Omg Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena

by OMG Architecture

Client: OMG Architecture

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Loko Hale Category

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The Design

About Omg Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena

He keʻena hana hāmama ʻo OMG aia ma ka papahele 35 o Gubei Soho ma Shanghai. Ua hoʻolālā ʻia ka ʻaoʻao loko e paipai i ka launa pū ʻana ma waena o nā wahi a me nā kānaka a e hoʻomaikaʻi i ka pono o ka hana. ʻO ka hapalua o ka hoʻolālā he wahi lehulehu e hoʻokipa i nā mea kūʻai a e kākoʻo i ka hoʻololi ʻana, a ʻo kekahi hapalua he wahi hana me nā wahi hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa a me nā hana kōkua. Ua hoʻokiʻekiʻe ʻia ʻelua lumi hālāwai a me ʻelua paenaka kelepona ma luna o ka papahele, a hiki i laila ma o nā anuʻu a ua kaha ʻia e nā kaola mālamalama huna. Hoʻopili nā pio maʻemaʻe a me ke aniani wela pelu i ka hale i ke kaupaku.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Omg Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Omg Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Omg Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Located on the 35th floor of Gubei SOHO, the open office is designed to promote space interaction, improve work efficiency, and strengthen the interaction between people.
Via the design of stairs and hidden light strips, two conference rooms and two telephone booths using spare space rise from the floor, giving people the reverie of floating in the air. This kind of design language is constantly used in the office, even used in the ceiling design.
Dimensions & Packaging: OMG chooses to create a monochromatic office as the main color language, to clearly highlight the main paths. The solution was to divide the space into separate uses for separate entrance. The main lobby of the office is the studio's public area, a "living space” to increase connections and interpersonal exchanges and capable to welcome clients. And the other half is designed as the working area, so that the employees can have independent design space and other ancillary functional areas better.
Tags: Office, Interior Design
Production Technology: The poetry behind our working space was aimed at combine "individual and independent thinking" with "collective and cooperation creating" for the design of our office. The flow and atmosphere needed to embody the mindset and culture of the company-Just For The Future. Open office design promotes space interaction, improves work efficiency, and aims to create a creative space with the organic integration of work and living environment.
Design Challenge: The project’s challenges include these following aspects: choose refractive materials on team’s own，lighting and supplementary lighting design, quality control and high completion of hot bending glass, optimization of a large number of smooth curves, process of space capsule structure and ceiling, suspended conference hall and telephone room design and treatment, hidden light strips design, breath lamp and color changing lamp program and control, and electric privacy glass process, etc.
Research: From beginning, the design emphasizes to stimulate the design perception and creativity of employees via a good working environment. The team worked by themselves throughout the whole process from initial site selection, design, site control and soft decoration. The space capsule theme is presented to show the company's determination and strength to create a better future with a variety of mobile high-tech elements. It also aims to attract more talents to contribute to the society.
Inspiration: The idea behind the office aimed at combining "individual and independent thinking" with "collective and cooperation creating". To create the design quality for the future, the design is based on vitality, mobility, and high-tech elements.
Light and shadow give space different visual characteristics. Key elements also include smooth curves, hot bending glass, and creative design between arcs to organically connect the structure and ceiling to create the feeling of future space capsule.
Project Duration: From 2020-9 to 2020-12
Shanghai
Operation Flow: Architects divide the entrance and exit space separately. The main public area of the office is built with "living atmosphere space", which can effectively increase the communication and interaction among employees and become the client reception area. Half of the interior space is used as the public area, and the other half is designed as the working area, so that the employees can have independent design space and other ancillary functional areas better.
Team Members: OMG Architecture
Joe Zou（Project Manager）
Piercarlo Torri, Arnold Su (Lead Architects)
Bingkai Sun (Project Member)
Image Credits: DING Yichen