Zero Primary Function: Totonu o le Kalapu Fagafao by Yijie Chen

Zero Primary Function: Totonu o le Kalapu Fagafao by Yijie Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

ArioTotonu· 2020

Zero Primary Function: Totonu o le Kalapu Fagafao

by Yijie Chen

Client: Nayun Design

A' Design Award Ario Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About Zero Primary Function: Totonu o le Kalapu Fagafao

O le Zero o se totonu o se kalapu fagafao o loʻo tu i Nanjing. O le avanoa e 487 sikuea mita e faʻapotopoto faʻatasi ai le tausiga o fagafao, aʻoaʻoina o amioga ma auaunaga faʻatatau, faʻatasi ai ma se nofoaga faʻaagafesootai mo tagata e ana. O luga papatu paʻepaʻe ma faʻamamaluga laupapa e sui ai le vaaiga pipii o se faleoloa masani o fagafao. O mea autu o le PanDomo, terrazzo, apa uʻamea le ela ma le faʻamamaluga laupapa. O le maota e lautele ma matala, ma le malamalama vaivai ma lanu filemu. O potu malolo o fagafao e vaevae i laupapa ma tioata ma faʻailoga i numera. O sofa ma nofoa e mafai ona faʻaseʻe e mafai ai e tagata e ana ona nonofo i tafatafa o le tioata ma fegalegaleai ma a latou fagafao.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Zero Primary Function: Totonu o le Kalapu Fagafao, 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 Zero Primary Function: Totonu o le Kalapu Fagafao 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. Zero Primary Function: Totonu o le Kalapu Fagafao 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: Compared with the common pet shop, this project is more like a social life club. At a glance, people may recognize it as a book store or coffee bar. In this 460-square meter area, the behavior of pets will be corrected and pet related products will be sold such as travel, insurance, portrait and so on. Through selling these series of services, Zero Pet Club hopes to make human and their pets closer and communication further.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 487 square meters. Pet rest rooms are separated by logs and glasses and signed at numbers in order to manage. Small sofa and bench can be mobile anywhere so that owners can sit at the front of the glasses to communicate with their pets, at the same time, they also wouldn't disturb guests in other rooms.
Tags: Interior, Commercial, Pet Club, Modern, Natural, Retail, Simple,
Production Technology: The main materials in this project are PanDomo, terrazzo, stainless steel plate and wood finish. Looking this whole space, designers let Zero Pet Club become a personal style pet shop through take advantage of white and wood to express the worm and exquisite of the band.
Design Challenge: Cat playing area has strong natural style, in which many kinds of air ladders and cat climbs consist a adventure park. Single design not only let cats have fun, but also take up other space of the hall.
Research: Zero Pet Club lies at the 39th Tianshan Road, Xuanwu District of Nanjing, whose gate is open and shining just like a silent invitation so that the attention of visitors are all attracted to its inner space naturally. At a glance, we may recognize it as it is a book store or coffee shop, but the light boards hung on the outside wall were designed to a cat pattern had proclaimed the real feature of this space.
Inspiration: From the very beginning, the designer's orientation for this project is "exquisite and beautiful", white as keynote, breaking form of the common pet shop where inner space is crowd and has bad ventilation, through minimalism design techniques, suiting logs, glasses, rolled steel, and bare pipe such kinds of original elements to build a pet world with compound beautiful in this city that full of tall buildings and towers.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2018 in Nanjing and finished in July 2019 in Nanjing.
Operation Flow: The hall is a comprehensive area. Wide and open plane layout, appropriate light effect and shades affordable color design that they all possess sense of flow and interest.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Yijie Chen, 2018.
Team Members: Yijie Chen
Mingxing Ma
Jiawei Ni
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Ning Pei, The Hall, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Ning Pei, Art Installation, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Ning Pei, Entrance, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Ning Pei, Cat Playing Area, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Ning Pei, Pet Rest Rooms, 2018.