KennaXu Gallery Pinacotheca Artis by Da Integrating Limited

KennaXu Gallery Pinacotheca Artis by Da Integrating Limited is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Designatio Interior Competition Category.

FerrumInterior· 2021

KennaXu Gallery Pinacotheca Artis

by Da Integrating Limited

Client: Da Integrating Limited

Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About KennaXu Gallery Pinacotheca Artis

KennaXu Pinacotheca est locus artis in vetere communitate habitationis Shenzhen, Sinis, situs. Spatium ducentorum viginti trium metrorum quadratorum ex pristina domo cum duobus tabulatis angustis et obscuris conversum est. Album est color praecipuus, simplicem et receptivam scaenam creans quae colorem et compositionem tabularum expositarum revelat. Materiae comprehendunt pigmentum latex, membranam, pavimentum ligneum, vitrum ultra-limpidum, tegulam albam et chalybem inoxidabilem album. Fenestrae insolitae lucem et sonos exteriores inducunt, pinacothecam cum vita cotidiana communitatis coniungentes.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum

KennaXu Gallery Pinacotheca Artis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur KennaXu Gallery Pinacotheca Artis creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. KennaXu Gallery Pinacotheca Artis ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The design team reflected on the relationship between gallery and art space, and discovered more possibilities of the gallery as a public space. Located in an old residential community, the site blends a strong living atmosphere with beautiful natural landscape, making it possible to integrating art aesthetics and learning into daily life.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project is 223 square meters in all.
Tags: Art gallery, Shenzhen, public space, color, freedom, openness, multi-sensory experiences
Production Technology: Latex paint, membrane, wooden flooring, ultra-clear glass, white tile, white stainless steel
Design Challenge: There were also some unfavorable conditions as converting the former residence into an art space. The original space consisted of two floors, which were narrow and dim. The first floor had a low ceiling, looking like a storeroom, while the second floor featured an old-styled, disordered and fragmented spatial pattern. The overall space looked so different from an art space.
Research: The building, constructed in the 1990s within an old community, is the place where the gallery owner Kenna Xu spent his childhood. It carries his deep affection for Shenzhen, and also breeds his dream of establishing a contemporary art gallery that finds a foothold in the local area and pursues global visibility.
Inspiration: The space is dominated by white hue, which produces a modern, simplistic spatial tone as well as an inclusive backdrop that reveals the authenticity of things. It can fully display the color, composition, aesthetics and thinking of exhibited paintings. The design incorporates a sense of "emptiness" to create a free and serene ambience, with a view to enabling harmonious interaction between light and shadow, nature and artworks, and thereby achieving the beauty of art.
Project Duration: The project started in November, 2018 and finished in September, 2019 in the Intersection of Yitian Road and Fuqiang Road, Futian District, Shenzhen, China.
Operation Flow: The unique windows shake off traditional designs, and act as openings for conveying messages. Meanwhile, those structures bring in the daily chatter of residents, sounds of footsteps and birdsong from outdoor groves, which become background music for the art space. The gallery seems to grow here and closely integrates with the old community.
Team Members: Design Firm: DA INTEGRATING LIMITED
Chief Designer: Chinman Ngai
Cooperators: Artist Yang Shu
Cooperators: Ma Shuqing
Image Credits: Photo by: Kevin, Benmo Studio