Wuhan UI Kikowaena Kūʻai Kūloko by Yu Studio

Wuhan UI Kikowaena Kūʻai Kūloko by Yu Studio is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Loko Hale a me Hōʻike Competition Category.

KalaLoko Hale· 2022

Wuhan UI Kikowaena Kūʻai Kūloko

by Yu Studio

Client: Yu Studio

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Loko Hale Category

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The Design

About Wuhan UI Kikowaena Kūʻai Kūloko

He kikowaena kūʻai kūloko ʻo Wuhan UI i hoʻoulu ʻia e ka moʻomeheu wai o Wuhan. ʻO ke kani a me ka lewa ke kahua o ka manaʻo hoʻolālā. Ua haku ʻia ke mele kumu no loko, a ua hui pū ʻia nā leo mele me ka ʻike ʻole ʻia ma waena o nā keʻena, no laila e neʻe ai ka poʻe kipa me he mea lā i loko o kahi kahua kani. Alakaʻi ke alapiʻi wili i ke kumu kani ma ke papa lua, no laila ua alakaʻi ʻia ke ala e ka lohe a me ka ʻike. Hoʻohui nā hana noʻeau kiʻi i nā alapiʻi, he aniani keleawe a me ka pōhaku kau. Aia i loko o nā mea kūkulu ka lacquer noʻeau, ka pōhaku hoʻonaninani a me ka pōhaku hana me nā nao lāʻau.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Wuhan UI Kikowaena Kūʻai Kūloko 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 Wuhan UI Kikowaena Kūʻai Kūloko 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 Wuhan UI Kikowaena Kūʻai Kūloko 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: "When a building stays, the river doesn't stop flowing." In Wuhan, Qingchuan Pavilion and Yellow Crane Tower stand beside the river, and the river flows constantly all day and night. In UI Center, an art installation that combines a stable building with unstable mirror images through which the suspension bridge passes. The instability of the suspension bridge and the swinging of the perforating copper give people a kind of dreamlike feeling.
Dimensions & Packaging: "Sound and space constitute the framework of the design concept. Sound is integrated into the context of contemporary art and sound tracks are interwoven and mixed invisibly in the space, so that visitors walk as if in a sound field, interacting with the art installations in the space and motivating the emotions of the whole space.
Tags: Divinity, field domain, fusion, leisure, emotion, balance
Production Technology: Artistic lacquer, decorative brick, colour film, artificial stone with wood grains, pan DOMO floor.
Design Challenge: The water on the first floor statically expresses a kind of extreme quiet, while that on the second floor emphasizes the sense of mobility of the space.
The second floor is connected with the first floor. Those regular windows and walls separate the space into a series of continuous pictures, which depict the warm, delicate and romantic sceneries of spring, river, flower, moon and night in the traditional Chinese style.
Research: In the corridor, the light and the sky colour mix mutually, and the sound of water droplets is high sometimes and low sometimes. The sound source is located in the roof of the second floor just above the spiral staircase. Therefore, the guidance of the tour route is beyond ordinary visual guidance, but a process of "seeking for a sound source".
Inspiration: "I want that the whole space is filled with a pleasant sound. The space and sound have a close relationship but are separate each other."
- Yu Zhao
Like a floating city, Wuhan floats on the surface of rivers and lakes. The project design was inspired by the unique water culture of Wuhan. Based on "water", the designer invited his friend Ouge, a musician, to create a piece of unique music for this space, and integrated the sound art into space expression here.
Project Duration: The project started in Oct. 2019 in Wuhan and finished in Nov. 2020 in Wuhan.
Operation Flow: Listening to the sound whiling going upstairs from the corridor, visitors can also "view" the stairs in the box, the bronze mirror on the floor, and the hanging stone which constitute a complete art installation with a special art environment. The light darkens here, and the reflection in the mirror looks like the surface of a pool of water, attracting people to stop and feel their blurred environment around. The sound of water droplets does not correspond to the real dropping water.
Team Members: Interior Designer: Zhen Lyu
Interior Designer: Jin Feng
Soft Decoration Designer: Yue Wang
Soft Decoration Designer: Yuanyuan Peng
Image Credits: Ting Wang