The Satori Harbor 主要功能：圖書館 by Vipshop China Co., Ltd

The Satori Harbor 主要功能：圖書館 by Vipshop China Co., Ltd is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 銀獎 in 室內空間及展覽設計 Competition Category.

銀室內· 2022

The Satori Harbor 主要功能：圖書館

by Vipshop China Co., Ltd

Client: Vip.com

A' Design Award 銀獎 Winner in 室內 Category

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The Design

About The Satori Harbor 主要功能：圖書館

悟境港係一間位於廣州某企業總部內嘅圖書館。呢個圖書館被佈置成一座抽象嘅港口城市，讀者可以喺書籍之間漫步。一個畫廊展示住從多個國家收集返嚟嘅畫作，擺放時無分主次高低。走廊盡頭一扇圓形窗框住城市嘅一小片景致。一個船隻造型以鋼架搭建，外層塗上灰泥。印花布幕呈現廣州港口附近舊建築嘅外立面。牆身同地板均以灰泥飾面，而弧形階梯就用米色水磨石。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀獎

The Satori Harbor 主要功能：圖書館是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計The Satori Harbor 主要功能：圖書館將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。The Satori Harbor 主要功能：圖書館是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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