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Zhoumin Wei's Shuimolanting Sales Center commands the visual field through a masterful orchestration of vertical axiality and bilateral symmetry, establishing an immediate sense of ceremonial passage
Dominating this interior composition stands a monumental lattice wall system finished in deep burgundy oxide tones reminiscent of aged Venetian red or iron-rich terra cotta, its geometric grid structu
Dominating Zhoumin Wei's Shuimolanting Sales Center interior, a dramatic dark wall featuring an installation of white three-dimensional forms suggesting stylized dragonflies or calligraphic brushstrok
Polished charcoal-toned stone floors reflect overhead recessed lighting and ambient illumination that washes across this meticulously composed interior, where the visual architecture establishes a sop
Rich oxblood lattice panels articulate the monumental wall plane in modular repetition, their diagonal crosshatch perforations creating a rhythmic counterpoint between solid and void, opacity and tran

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Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020

Shuimolanting Sales Center

by Zhoumin Wei

  • A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
  • Awarded April 15, 2020
  • CLIENT: Hefei Wanling Architectural Decoration Design Engineering Co.,LTD.
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 30,029
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About Shuimolanting Sales Center

The Chinese style of this case adopts the dark coffee red ground stone on the market and the blank of the natural lighting of the floor window, forming a contrast between the light and shade, the virtual and the real. The virtual and aluminum wood grilles, the copper art lotus leaf pieces in the water scenic spot, and the Chinese character structure installation art in the rest area is the point of the "ink orchid court" case. In particular, the use of new materials of smallpox, in the ordinary highlight extraordinary, but also ingeniously reduce the cost of the surface.

Within the evolving tradition of contemporary interior architecture that seeks meaningful dialogue between regional cultural heritage and international design sophistication, Zhoumin Wei's Shuimolanting Sales Center emerges as an accomplished meditation on threshold, passage, and the experiential choreography of commercial space elevated to the realm of cultural encounter. The design demonstrates remarkable compositional intelligence through its deployment of strict bilateral symmetry and deep central perspective, devices that simultaneously reference classical architectural traditions of ceremonial procession while creating a contemporary spatial experience distinguished by precision and luminous refinement. The ceiling installation commands particular attention as a sculptural intervention that transforms utilitarian illumination into expressive calligraphic gesture, its organic flowing forms suggesting traditional ink painting techniques, flowing water, or celestial ribbon motifs rendered in warm golden light against the disciplined geometry of the architectural envelope. This productive tension between organic fluidity and geometric restraint speaks to enduring philosophical concepts regarding the complementary relationship between nature and human ordering systems. The flanking display vitrines present curated cultural artifacts including miniature architectural models and carefully positioned bonsai specimens, establishing an atmosphere of scholarly refinement and cultural continuity that elevates the commercial function toward something approaching museum experience. The extraordinary mirror-polished floor surface creates perfect reflections that double the perceived spatial volume while introducing meditative qualities of correspondence and contemplation appropriate to significant architectural thresholds. Material selections demonstrate sophisticated understanding of tactile and optical qualities, from the warm absorption of vertical ribbed surfaces to the soft diffusion of translucent draperies and the glossy perfection of the reflective floor plane. The layered lighting strategy integrates concealed linear sources, focused accent illumination, filtered daylight, and the sculptural chandelier into a cohesive luminous environment that modulates atmosphere across distinct spatial zones. How might this carefully orchestrated sequence of threshold, revelation, and spatial unfolding reflect upon the profound human experiences that architectural space can facilitate, and what cultural memories does this contemporary interpretation invite us to explore?

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Unique Properties
This case illustrates the designer's understanding of China's cultural revival and decent way of life through the more modern thinking in contemporary Chinese ink paintings and the combination of western expressions. Design keynote thick ink heavy color, leave white natural, light and dark, false and real contrast has a degree, form atmosphere, luxurious visual impact, top surface processing one integrated mass, seamless, in the ordinary place shows extraordinary.
Dimensions & Packaging
The net space size of the Sales Department of ink orchid Court: length: 46930mm, width: 20440mm, height: 4830, height of the empty part: 9030mm. The whole space is wide, mainly practical is beige marble: thickness 25m, length 900mm, width 450mm and 600mm. This can reduce the loss of stone. The top is made of imported imitation wood technology veneer. It is very environment-friendly, convenient for construction, and also saves a lot of construction time.
Tags
Sales department , New Oriental doctrine , Wanlin disigh , Shuimo Lanting , Zhoumin Wei
Production Technology
Omega grey marble, wood veneer, Vienna grey marble, stainless steel
Design Challenge
As far as possible not straightforward way to express the effect of ink, with modern materials to express meditation, xinyi environment.
Project Duration
Time: June 2019 to August 2019
Operation Flow
Shuimolanting is an elegant sales exhibition space, Shuimo is a unique oriental culture. The designer wants to express the elegance and implicitly of Shuimo and let the experiencer feel their future home as wonderful as a paradise from the heart. Experience the space that the person likes very much, they buy a house in this kind of environment very happy and trust.
Research
Research Type: how to implicitly express oriental culture and make people of different ages like this environment.
The research goal is: the favorite type of consumption. Through the designer's design, the experiencer feels that such Orientalism is more what they want, rather than the old-fashioned way in the past. Just after the sales center opened, they basically sold out their houses. Consumers give recognition and trust to the development company.
Inspiration
Ink said picturesque environment, lanting meaning for the beautiful place of books. The designer chose its name to create a beautiful implication space with the meaning of shuimolanting. Can ink meaning, but no ink shape.
Image Credits
Photographer Jing Zhang
Photographed in September 10, 2019

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