The Satori Harbor 図書館 by Vipshop China Co., Ltd is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銀賞 in インテリア空間・展示デザイン Competition Category.
銀インテリア· 2022
The Satori Harbor 図書館
Client: Vip.com
A' Design Award 銀賞 Winner in インテリア Category
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About The Satori Harbor 図書館
サトリ・ハーバーは、広州の企業本社内に設けられた図書館である。館内は抽象的な港湾都市として構成され、読者は書物のあいだを回遊するように歩き回ることができる。ギャラリーには各国から収集した絵画が、序列をつけることなく展示されている。廊下の突き当たりに設けられた円形窓は、街並みの小さな風景を切り取る。船を象ったフォルムは鉄骨で組み上げられ、スタッコで仕上げられている。プリントを施したファブリックスクリーンには、広州の港近くに建つ古い建物のファサードが映し出される。壁と床はスタッコ仕上げとし、曲線を描く階段にはベージュのテラゾーを用いている。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銀賞
The Satori Harbor 図書館は、見事で印象的なハイエンドのデザインに授与される、非常に権威ある評価である A' Design Award 銀賞の受賞作品です。銀賞の受賞作品は、きわめて輝かしく創造性に富んだ作品であり、デザイナーの傑出した専門知識、才能、洞察力を示しています。The Satori Harbor 図書館は、素晴らしい代表作であり、驚くほどプロフェッショナルで、深く革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銀賞を受賞したデザインは、非常に注目すべき称賛される発明であり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に寄与し、それを前進させます。The Satori Harbor 図書館は、多くの人に羨まれる創造物であり、欲求を呼び覚まし、前向きな感情をもたらし、驚きと感嘆を灯します。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The 19th floor is a city within the city. The most important place is the gallery, a re-interpretation of the European art saloon. The gallery walls are covered with painting collected across world placed in a non-hierarchical fashion. At the end of the haowu corridor is a circular window, capturing a miniature corner of the city. Yu Ting seeks to create an obscure experience of space and time through the meandering experience through light and darkness.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The whole building is open office space. The library should be different from these, and then we want that differentiation to be tapped into. We want our guests to feel a little different from the moment they enter the tunnel.
- Tags
- Vipshop, Headquarter, Museum, The thirteen-hongs in Canton, Library, Tunnel, Port city, Haowu Port, Haowu Corridor
- Production Technology
- The whole space is basically covered with stucco, we used it on the wall and the floor, except for the curved steps which we chose a beige terrazzo to differentiate it from the floor below. The ceiling is painted with white.
The three circular openings on the left are windows to the rooms behind.
The rosette window is a page taken out of the history of Guangzhou, they were a big hit in the 18th century. With stucco and terrazzo, the space can have more possibilities to hold more activities. - Design Challenge
- Structure, fire partition.
This is a new building, but the library has a larger load than the original, the load requirements have been increased.
The owner was persistent in introducing the elevation of the thirteen rows into the design. Finally we printed the elevation of the thirteen rows on the roller blinds, when needed the roller blinds slowly fall and the elevation of the thirteen rows will appear. It's hard to do regular site visits due to the pandemic. - Research
- The owners repeatedly emphasized that Vipshop originated in Guangzhou's old 13 hongs, which was the only port during the closed time, open to the outside world at the time. In a way, Vipshop inherited the spirit of the old 13 hongs, they brought the good things from abroad back to China. Chinese cities and ports are separate and there is a distance between them. After a long discussion, we printed facades of the old buildings near the Guangzhou harbor on them.
- Inspiration
- November 2020, Wutopia Lab completes the Satori Harbor, a culturally symbolic library situated in VIPshop's new headquarters. Yu Ting, the Founder & Chief Architect of Wutopia Lab, sees the library materializing the complex mechanism of the world-an abstract harbor city where the readers can wander through books and experience their moments of enlightenment and deliverance. Satori Harbor symbolizes a moral place for that of practice of life.
- Project Duration
- Started in September 2019;
Completed in October 2020;
Location: 18-19F, South Tower of Vipshop Headquarters Building, Zone A, Pazhou Internet Innovation Cluster, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province - Operation Flow
- The boat is constructed with steel framing and coated with stucco, and the white screens are made of technical fabric and we printed facades of the old buildings near the Guangzhou harbor on them.
The boat is a homage to the history of Guangzhou, back when the city was a harbor to host cultural and commercial exchanges between China and the western world, which is what VIP is about, a connecting point between customers and all the good valued merchandising from all around the world. A boat is also a symbol taken out of Taoism, to fearlessly ride the waves of life. - Team Members
- Chief Architect: Yu Ting
Project Architect: Guo Yuchen, Yang Siqi, Zhan Beidi
Project Manager: Pu Shengrui
Design Consultant: Studio Yuda
Design Development: Dai Yunfeng, Wu Xiaoyan, Guo Jianv, Zhao Ruyi (Alignment Studio Shanghai)
MEP Consultant: Zhang Minmin, Shi Jianglong, Kuang Jing, Zhu Busen, Hu Lei
Lighting Consultant: Chloe Zhang
Structural Engineering: Yu Junfeng
Project Coordination: Li Sha, Liu Hui
Construction Manager: Luo Zhiyue - Image Credits
- CreatAR Images
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