OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Fuafuaga o Totonu o le Ofisa Autu by Benny Ren and LongYang Liu

OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Fuafuaga o Totonu o le Ofisa Autu by Benny Ren and LongYang Liu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

ArioTotonu· 2021

OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Fuafuaga o Totonu o le Ofisa Autu

by Benny Ren and LongYang Liu

Client: Kimber Hawson Design Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award Ario Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Fuafuaga o Totonu o le Ofisa Autu

OneSmart International Education o le totonu lea o le fale autu o se fa'ailoga a'oa'oga a Saina i le Itumalo o Putuo, i Shanghai. O le totonu e nofoia se fale e sefulutasi fogafale mai le seneturi ua mavae ma e aofia ai le 12000 sikuea mita. O le avanoa e lagolagoina galuega faaofisa i aso uma, fonotaga ma gaoioiga tau a'oa'oga faalauaitele. O fa'apipi'i pi'o na faia i laupapa fa'apipi'i e ui atu i totonu o le fale ma fa'aitiitia ai le mamafa vaaia o poutu o le fausaga i le vaega vaapiapi o le faitotoa. O lanu lanumoana ma le pa'epa'e e tuufaatasia ma lanu māfanafana o le laupapa. O se faasitepu ta'amilomilo e faafeso'ota'i ai vaega e talia ai tagata i le fogafale muamua ma le lua.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Fuafuaga o Totonu o le Ofisa Autu, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Fuafuaga o Totonu o le Ofisa Autu e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. OneSmart International Education Primary Function: Fuafuaga o Totonu o le Ofisa Autu o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: OneSmart International Education, one of the leading Chinese education brands listed on the NYSE, has many branch product lines and brand divisions. The new headquarters, located in an 11-floor old building of the last century in Putuo District, Shanghai, has a total floor area of 12000 square meters. It is able to meet the needs of daily office work, meetings and all kinds of public benefit education activities.
Dimensions & Packaging: The area is 12000 sqm.
Tags: Education, Technology, Office, Bright, Comfortable
Production Technology: The building entrance area is narrow and separated by the original structural columns into trivial and irregular small spaces. In the light of these defects, the designers splice planks into arc-shaped large space art devices throughout the building, which give the building space a sense of continuity and visual extension, weakening the volume of the original structural columns and maximizing the visual expansion of the sense of space.
Design Challenge: The new headquarters is located in a century-old building in Putuo District, Shanghai. Due to the original building structure and site conditions, the entrance area of the new headquarters only has less than 400 square meters of space, and the interior is scattered with 9 structural columns, cut into smaller, more trivial and irregular spaces.
Research: In order to avoid the sense of visual intimidation upon entering the building, and to be more in line with the spatial design of the new headquarters, the design uses a large spatial installation with a sense of continuity and visual extension to make the columns look smaller and to maximize the sense of space.
Inspiration: The design is based on the traditional Chinese cultural elements, and the reproduction of the design language from the formal language to highlight the national style of the theme.

In this design, we take "yearly higher", "auspicious clouds and dragon", "high mountains and flowing water" and "neatly stacked" as the design theme, extracting the elements, combining with the space and complementing each other.
Project Duration: The project started in December 2019 in Shanghai and finished in May 2020 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow: The overall architectural space adopts the dynamic blue and white tone, supplemented by the warm wood color to create an open, bright and comfortable office and educational environment. The staircase connecting the first floor and the second floor reception area takes the spiral shape, which reduces the visual tightness of the whole space and creates a comfortable and warm welcoming atmosphere.
Team Members: Benny Ren
LongYang Liu
Shadow Shi
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.