Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2021
Greenland Intercity Space Station Office
by Yungu Liu and Shuolei Zheng
- A' Design Award 2021 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Mantu Interior Architects Design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 24,331
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About Greenland Intercity Space Station Office
Greenland Intercity Space Station is an office interior located in Nanjing, China. The design covers an area of 5000 square meters and replaces the traditional standardized layout with an open and collaborative plan. The independent work areas are shaped as boxes stacked at different scales. Large light colored stone surfaces add a sense of depth. The lobby is high and spacious, and the floors have no clear boundaries. Staircases pass through the building structure and link the public areas, while stepped wooden stairs offer extra seating for meetings, lectures and events.
This distinguished interior design, recognized with the Golden A' Design Award in Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design, exemplifies contemporary approaches to workplace environments that seek to balance functional efficiency with experiential richness and cultural expression. The designer appears to engage thoughtfully with the challenge of creating spaces that foster both concentration and collaboration, employing an architectural vocabulary that draws upon industrial heritage while introducing elements of warmth, color, and sculptural surprise. The central circulation spine of ascending timber staircases serves as more than mere functional infrastructure, operating instead as a visual and experiential armature that organizes spatial perception and encourages movement through the building as a form of discovery. The material palette demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how surface textures and chromatic relationships can modulate spatial atmosphere, with the coolness of concrete and steel tempered by the organic warmth of timber cladding and flooring. Particularly noteworthy is the strategic deployment of saturated orange-yellow as an accent color, appearing in the substantial cubic shelving installation, in suspended sculptural elements, and in graphic interventions on glass surfaces, creating moments of visual intensity that punctuate the predominantly neutral environment. The suspended geometric panda sculptures introduce an element of playful narrative and cultural reference, their faceted low-polygon aesthetic suggesting dialogue between digital modeling processes and physical fabrication. The glass partitions bearing typographic messages invite consideration of how workplace environments communicate organizational values and culture through integrated design elements rather than applied decoration. Viewers might contemplate how such spaces shape daily experience and what qualities distinguish environments that support human flourishing within contemporary professional contexts.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- As a result of the understanding of the needs of offices and the continuous exploration of the future of the industry, the design team intends to create a new office model that caters to the development of the times. The Nanjing Office Plus, a new landmark for the fifth generation of Green Space Office, is designed with cultural and technological features. It seeks to enhance the spatial value by emphasizing the sense of form, thus creating an interesting art graphic space of vitality.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The area is 5000 sqm.
- Tags
- multi-dimensional, contemporary, art, open, interaction
- Production Technology
- The space design abandons the traditional standardized layout. Instead, it creates a smart, diverse office space with the concept of open collaboration to cultivate and promote a positive office style. All the independent office spaces are stacked with each other in the form of boxes. The overall space looks smart and active, riotous with colors. Big and straight light color stones are applied to show a strong sense of depth, which, rendered with clear and bright light colors, look neat and stylish, setting off a brisk and shortcut design rhythm.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge of this project is to reshape the space by using a multi-dimensional box-embedded design approach and combining contemporary art thinking. With comfort and meticulousness as the main track, the designers planned an open layout, using stairs to connect the various public spaces to facilitate communication and exchange, together with the different dimensions of the "box" office space, forming a multi-dimensional activity center that combines collaboration, interaction and social interaction.
- Project Duration
- The project started in June 2018 in Nanjing and finished in December 2019 in Nanjing.
- Operation Flow
- The lobby is high and spacious. The floors have no obvious boundaries. The staircases connecting the floors are interspersed with the building structure, enriching the space form, and facilitating people to communicate. The first floor adopts the combination mode of super reception plus coffee, where bright colored furniture embellishes among them to look relaxed and lively, creating a new office style and environment. The stepped wooden stairs provide more seats for meetings, lectures and events.
- Inspiration
- This project was born out of the recognition of the needs of the office sector and the continuous exploration of the future of the industry, with the intention of creating a new office model that meets the development of the times. The concept of open collaboration is to create a dynamic and diversified office space. The designers hope that this is an office space that is not tied down.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Frank Art Center, Intercity Space Station, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Frank Art Center, Intercity Space Station, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Frank Art Center, Intercity Space Station, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Frank Art Center, Intercity Space Station, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Frank Art Center, Intercity Space Station, 2019.
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