The Satori Harbor 图书馆 by Vipshop China Co., Ltd

The Satori Harbor 图书馆 by Vipshop China Co., Ltd is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

银室内· 2022

The Satori Harbor 图书馆

by Vipshop China Co., Ltd

Client: Vip.com

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About The Satori Harbor 图书馆

「悟境港湾」是一座坐落于广州某企业总部内部的图书馆。整个空间被构筑为一座抽象的港口城市，读者得以在书海之间漫步游走。画廊中陈列着来自多个国家的收藏画作，以无主次之分的方式并置展示。走廊尽头的圆形窗洞，将城市的一隅景致框入其中。船形体量以钢结构搭建，外覆灰泥饰面。印花织物屏风上呈现着广州港口一带老建筑的立面肌理。墙面与地面均采用灰泥饰面，弧形台阶则选用米色水磨石。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

The Satori Harbor 图书馆是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计The Satori Harbor 图书馆将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。The Satori Harbor 图书馆是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: The 19th floor is a city within the city. The most important place is the gallery, a re-interpretation of the European art saloon. The gallery walls are covered with painting collected across world placed in a non-hierarchical fashion. At the end of the haowu corridor is a circular window, capturing a miniature corner of the city. Yu Ting seeks to create an obscure experience of space and time through the meandering experience through light and darkness.
Dimensions & Packaging: The whole building is open office space. The library should be different from these, and then we want that differentiation to be tapped into. We want our guests to feel a little different from the moment they enter the tunnel.
Tags: Vipshop, Headquarter, Museum, The thirteen-hongs in Canton, Library, Tunnel, Port city, Haowu Port, Haowu Corridor
Production Technology: The whole space is basically covered with stucco, we used it on the wall and the floor, except for the curved steps which we chose a beige terrazzo to differentiate it from the floor below. The ceiling is painted with white.
The three circular openings on the left are windows to the rooms behind.
The rosette window is a page taken out of the history of Guangzhou, they were a big hit in the 18th century. With stucco and terrazzo, the space can have more possibilities to hold more activities.
Design Challenge: Structure, fire partition.
This is a new building, but the library has a larger load than the original, the load requirements have been increased.
The owner was persistent in introducing the elevation of the thirteen rows into the design. Finally we printed the elevation of the thirteen rows on the roller blinds, when needed the roller blinds slowly fall and the elevation of the thirteen rows will appear. It's hard to do regular site visits due to the pandemic.
Research: The owners repeatedly emphasized that Vipshop originated in Guangzhou's old 13 hongs, which was the only port during the closed time, open to the outside world at the time. In a way, Vipshop inherited the spirit of the old 13 hongs, they brought the good things from abroad back to China. Chinese cities and ports are separate and there is a distance between them. After a long discussion, we printed facades of the old buildings near the Guangzhou harbor on them.
Inspiration: November 2020, Wutopia Lab completes the Satori Harbor, a culturally symbolic library situated in VIPshop's new headquarters. Yu Ting, the Founder & Chief Architect of Wutopia Lab, sees the library materializing the complex mechanism of the world-an abstract harbor city where the readers can wander through books and experience their moments of enlightenment and deliverance. Satori Harbor symbolizes a moral place for that of practice of life.
Project Duration: Started in September 2019;
Completed in October 2020;
Location: 18-19F, South Tower of Vipshop Headquarters Building, Zone A, Pazhou Internet Innovation Cluster, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
Operation Flow: The boat is constructed with steel framing and coated with stucco, and the white screens are made of technical fabric and we printed facades of the old buildings near the Guangzhou harbor on them.
The boat is a homage to the history of Guangzhou, back when the city was a harbor to host cultural and commercial exchanges between China and the western world, which is what VIP is about, a connecting point between customers and all the good valued merchandising from all around the world. A boat is also a symbol taken out of Taoism, to fearlessly ride the waves of life.
Team Members: Chief Architect: Yu Ting
Project Architect: Guo Yuchen, Yang Siqi, Zhan Beidi
Project Manager: Pu Shengrui
Design Consultant: Studio Yuda
Design Development: Dai Yunfeng, Wu Xiaoyan, Guo Jianv, Zhao Ruyi (Alignment Studio Shanghai)
MEP Consultant: Zhang Minmin, Shi Jianglong, Kuang Jing, Zhu Busen, Hu Lei
Lighting Consultant: Chloe Zhang
Structural Engineering: Yu Junfeng
Project Coordination: Li Sha, Liu Hui
Construction Manager: Luo Zhiyue
Image Credits: CreatAR Images