Sooyou Interior Tabernae Pulchritudinis by Peihe Xie

Sooyou Interior Tabernae Pulchritudinis by Peihe Xie is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Designatio Interior Competition Category.

AesInterior· 2021

Sooyou Interior Tabernae Pulchritudinis

by Peihe Xie

Client: AD ARCHITECTURE (Shenzhen)

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Sooyou Interior Tabernae Pulchritudinis

Sooyou est taberna pulchritudinis Harbini in Sina sita, praecipue feminis clientibus destinata. Interior spatii ratio ex assidua cellularum corporis humani fissione ducitur, quae per figuras geometricas ac lineas simplices in structuras spatiales convertitur. Lineae rectae et curvae coniunguntur ut magnos blocos geometricos delineent, et harum structurarum fissio varias experientias per itinera circulationis creat, simul privatam quandam secessum praebens. Colores obscure grisei et nigri rubro colore animantur. Spatium 450 metrorum quadratorum pictura cementicia, filtro, parietum ornamentis et tabulis lapideis utitur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Sooyou Interior Tabernae Pulchritudinis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Sooyou Interior Tabernae Pulchritudinis rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Sooyou Interior Tabernae Pulchritudinis necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: As the largest organ of human body, skin is the interface between the physical body and the outside world. Cells are constantly dying, and new ones are being made simultaneously, to maintain the healthy state of the body.
The design firm drew inspiration from the constant fission of cells in human body, and translated it into spatial structures via geometric shapes and basic lines. The "fission" of structures creates rich experiences along the circulations while also providing privacy.
Dimensions & Packaging: Area: 450 sqm
Main materials: cement paint, felt, wall finishes, stone panels
Tags: Beauty salon, AD ARCHITECTURE, Dark, Cell, Xie Peihe, Art
Production Technology: The overall space is dominated by dark hues, with the areas illuminated as spatial highlights. Shadows extend along the edges of light, leaving infinite room for imagination. The shift of brightness and darkness at different layers stimulates emotional liberation, and offers calming and free experiences throughout the space.
Gray and black shades set the overall tone of the space, which is highlighted and enlivened by a red hue.
Design Challenge: Due to the limited budget, the designers chose to use wooden splints to realize the complex spatial form and structures, which required high degree of accuracy of size, positions and proportions. Moreover, because of COVID-19, the design team was not able to instruct the construction work on site, but simply communicated with workers through video to control the whole construction process, which posed a big challenge to the execution of design solutions.
Research: The project is a pioneering experiment that AD ARCHITECTURE carried out in commercial space design. It breaks conventional order, and injects mysterious and fun characters into the space. The designers drew on the fission and motion of cells to conceive this differentiated space, and finally produced abstract bionic aesthetic.
Inspiration: Situated at Qunli New District, Harbin, China, the project is a beauty salon that mainly targets female consumers. The entrance wall echoes the arcs of the architecture with its curved shape, creates a unique perspective to look inside, and indicates a sense of mystery in the space.
The spatial design is aimed at evoking certain underlying body memories of people.
Project Duration: Start time: January 2020
Completion time: July 2020
Location: Harbin, China
Operation Flow: This is a beauty salon, in the space, straight lines and curves are combined to outline large geometric blocks, and the cool concrete generates dramatic visual effects. Lines stretch and interweave, indicating the fluidity of human cells. As the customers slowly move within the space, the contrast of the static and dynamic will become more apparent.
Team Members: Chief designer: Xie Peihe
Design team: AD ARCHITECTURE
Image Credits: Ouyang Yun