Banyan Pavilion Design Interior Tabernae Mercimoniorum by Yi Xiao

Banyan Pavilion Design Interior Tabernae Mercimoniorum by Yi Xiao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Designatio Interior Competition Category.

AesInterior· 2021

Banyan Pavilion Design Interior Tabernae Mercimoniorum

by Yi Xiao

Client: Atelier Yi

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Banyan Pavilion Design Interior Tabernae Mercimoniorum

Textus Libri: Pavilio Fici Indicae est interior design tabernae mercimoniorum in regione historica urbis Fuzhou, Sinis, iuxta arborem ficus Indicae centum annorum sitam. Structura lateritia exsistens servatur et ferro roboratur. Facies originalis ostio plicatili et labenti aperitur, quod artiorem coniunctionem cum via publica creat. Pluteus albus et margo piscinae fici Indicae spatium circulare integrum efficiunt. Solum lapide permeabili sternitur ut aqua arbori praesto sit, et suggestum terrazzo elevatum sedilia exteriora praebet. Tabulae viminis manu textae craticulam pluteorum tegunt.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Banyan Pavilion Design Interior Tabernae Mercimoniorum 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 Banyan Pavilion Design Interior Tabernae Mercimoniorum 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. Banyan Pavilion Design Interior Tabernae Mercimoniorum 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: The project is situated in a historic district Which next to a middle school and behind a century old banyan tree. This project was discussed as a new type of convenience store model influenced by e-commerce.The facade of the architecture was opened facing the block,and It was formed a complete circular public space combined with banyan trees, redefining the relationship between the inner space with banyan trees, as well as the relationship between architecture and streets.
Dimensions & Packaging: 36㎡
brick , steel , adhesive stone , terrazzo , rattan board
Tags: Historic district , architecture renovation , banyan tree , landscape / public space / convenience store
Production Technology: The brick structure was retained and reinforced with steel structure. The original facade is opened by folding sliding door which creats a closer connection with the street. The white shelf and the boundary of banyan pool form a complete circle space. The ground adopts permeable sticky stone to ensure the water for banyan trees, and the raised terrazzo platform is used in the shop to create an exterior seats. The grid of the self corresponds to the texture of the brick wall and the grid surface layer adopts the rattan board wove by hand to echo with the Ficus epidermis.
Design Challenge: In this project, the architect should deal with the relationship between the new and the old, the relationship between the architecture and the street, the relationship between the space and the banyan tree in the architectural transformation of the historical district.
Research: In this project, the architect exploring the basic method of the transformation of the old architecture: a starting point to shape the place instead of just the transformation of the internal space.So that the architecture becomes a part of the environment, together with the landscape and streets to form a part of community life.
Inspiration: Based on the banyan tree on the site, the project proposes a comprehensive environmental strategy to reshape the relationship between architecture, context and landscape, people activities and crowded street traffic. It forms an important public space in the environment of the historical district.
Project Duration: The project is located in Fuzhou, China. It starts in March 2019 and completed in January 2020.
Operation Flow: This project is not only a general store interior design, the architect use minimal interventions to solve multi-dimensional practical problems at the same time. The importance of banyan trees in this place is emphasized by combining architectural space with street and landscape to provide a place for public activities.
Image Credits: Image#1:Photographer Xinyun Cheng,Banyan Pavilion,2020.
Image#2: Photographer Xiao Yi, Banyan Pavilion,2020.
Image#3: Photographer Xiao Yi, Banyan Pavilion,2020.
Image#4: Photographer Xiao Yi, Banyan Pavilion,2020.
Image#5: Photographer Xiao Yi, Banyan Pavilion,2020.
Video Credits:Creator Xiao Yi, Banyan Pavillion,2020.