Gemdale Casa Oia Primary Function: Totonu o le Nofoaga Autu mo Faatauga o Fanua by DAS Design Co., Ltd. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.
ArioTotonu· 2021
Gemdale Casa Oia Primary Function: Totonu o le Nofoaga Autu mo Faatauga o Fanua
Client: DAS Lab
A' Design Award Ario Winner in Totonu Category
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About Gemdale Casa Oia Primary Function: Totonu o le Nofoaga Autu mo Faatauga o Fanua
Gemdale Casa Oia o le mamanu i totonu o se nofoaga autu mo faatauga o fanua i Beihai, Saina. O le avanoa e 1060 sikuea mita e faavae i le natura o lona autu ma faaali ai le sootaga i le va o le mauga ma le sami. O se gagana mamanu faigofie e faamatala ai le foliga tafeaga o galu o le sami ma faaliliu ai lena foliga i se faasologa o faatufugaga. O le uliuli, paepae, efuefu ma lanu mafanafana ua tuufaatasia ma lanu na maua mai le sami. O galuega faatufugaga pei o maa i luga o puipui ua faaali ai le suiga o lanu lanumoana eseese. O mea faaaogaina e aofia ai le vali faatufugaga, maa efuefu, maa sima ma le ipu uamea.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Ario
O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Gemdale Casa Oia Primary Function: Totonu o le Nofoaga Autu mo Faatauga o Fanua, 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 Gemdale Casa Oia Primary Function: Totonu o le Nofoaga Autu mo Faatauga o Fanua 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. Gemdale Casa Oia Primary Function: Totonu o le Nofoaga Autu mo Faatauga o Fanua 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
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Nature endows all things with a changing form. The project adopts minimalist design languages to narrate the rolling form of sea waves and translates it into an art installation, which shows dramatic visual effects and seems to shack off the shackles of spatial boundary.
The imagination about mountain and sea is the design thread that runs through the entire space. Light shines on rocks, and is refracted and extended by glass. - Dimensions & Packaging
- The area of project is 1060 square meter.
- Tags
- light, Beihai, sea waves, sea and mountain, nature, narrative of fluidity
- Production Technology
- The materials: art paint, grey stone, cement stone, metal plate
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge lay in material selection and how to achieve a lighting atmosphere that is ethereal and features rich layering.
- Research
- The project is a property sales center located in Beihai, Guangxi, China. As one of the starting points of the Maritime Silk Road, Beihai has been witnessing the fusion and collision between Oriental and Western cultures, which add a sense of mystery to ancient roads.
- Inspiration
- The design takes inspiration from local environment and cultural context, and at the same time extracts unique elements of mountain and sea, thereby creating a poetic space that resonates with users.
The design abstracts flowing ripples on the sea, and incorporates the form of sea water into the space via the rich changes of light and shadows. Visitors are encouraged to capture the moments where water surface ripples and to think about changes in life. - Project Duration
- The project started in August 2019 and finished in September 2020 in Beihai, China.
- Operation Flow
- The project takes nature as the design theme, and expresses the relationship between mountain and sea through design languages. The space mainly adopt black, white, gray and warm tones, and extracts various brilliant hues that the sea presents in different natural conditions. Stone-like artworks on the wall shows the transition and fusion of different blue shades, which create a visual highlight in the space and show layering and changes in an orderly manner.
- Team Members
- Cui Duan
Luo Hui
Fu Zhiheng
Zhang Yuan
Ye Shaoling
Chen Yongqiu
Tan Ling
Lai Haojun
Fan Chenming - Image Credits
- photo by: Mconcept
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