Dreams Chasing Officina Vitae et Artis by Peihe Xie

Dreams Chasing Officina Vitae et Artis by Peihe Xie is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Designatio Interior Competition Category.

ArgentumInterior· 2020

Dreams Chasing Officina Vitae et Artis

by Peihe Xie

Client: AD ARCHITECTURE(Shenzhen)

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Dreams Chasing Officina Vitae et Artis

Somniorum Persecutio est officina vitae et artis intra emporium suburbanum in urbe Shantou, in Sinis, sita. Spatium quadringentorum octoginta metrorum quadratorum ad supellectilem et culcitas ostentandas adhibetur. Locus est area angusta rectangula cum ordinata columnarum retinaculo et fenestris aequaliter dispositis in parietibus septentrionali et australi. Simplices moles geometricae in structuram inseruntur ad interiora dividenda et coniungenda. Forma arcuata cum foramine aperto spatia inter se penetrare sinit. Adhibentur concretum, pigmentum album latex, pigmentum nigrum latex et pavimentum plasticum.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Dreams Chasing Officina Vitae et Artis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Dreams Chasing Officina Vitae et Artis opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Dreams Chasing Officina Vitae et Artis creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: By refining the volume of the form, the versatile geometry functions as division of space while independent from the space. The arc-shaped form adds fun to the space that is filled with tension, and the missing hole not only implies the beginning of each unknown space, but also allows the spaces to penetrate each other. A sloping wall seems to point to an unknown edge. Under the superposition of multiple forms and spaces, the viewers are guided into a world between dream and reality.
Dimensions & Packaging: Project area: 480 sqm
Category: Life and Art Showroom
Tags: Art Showroom, Simple, pure, perceive, AD ARCHITECTURE
Production Technology: Main materials: concrete, white latex paint, black latex paint, plastic flooring
Design Challenge: The project is located inside a mall in the suburbs. The space is mainly targeted for displaying furniture and mattresses. The designer defines it as life & art showroom. The site is a narrow rectangular space in east-west direction, with a standard column grid structure and evenly distributed windows on the north and south walls, resulting in a single spatial form. How to explore the diverse meanings of showroom space under the condition of limited space structure is the biggest challenge of the design.
Research: Space is virtual. In fact, in the virtual state, the narratives are allowed not to be presented in the order of events. To avoid a single linear space form, the design opens the non-load-bearing partition wall that combines the structure from the very beginning. Simple and pure geometrical form is interspersed in the framework of structure, and the original space is decomposed and reconstructed, creating spaces of different shapes and interconnections, thus the boundaries of space are blurred.
Inspiration: Everyone has a dream, which is an illusory yet real experience. Dreams provide more space for people to think about infinity, transcending the boundaries of real space, chasing, exploring and conquering in dreams while looking backward at the self and superego in personality. Perhaps it is also an encouragement for people to contemplate in real life. And that's why we call it Dreams-Chasing.
Project Duration: Design time: September, 2018
Completion time: December, 2018
Location: Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
Operation Flow: The space is mainly for displaying furniture and mattresses. Designer defines it as life & art showroom. The site is a narrow rectangular space in east-west direction, with a standard column grid structure and evenly distributed windows on the north and south walls, resulting in a single spatial form. Designer explores the diverse meanings of showroom space under the condition of limited space structure through the concept of "taking objects as reality, space as virtua, and dreams as the world".
Team Members: Chief designer: Xie Peihe
Design team: AD ARCHITECTURE
Image Credits: Photographer: Ouyang Yun