Articles by Hana Abdel

Unbot Inc. a web marketing business specializing in Greater China, centering on domestic and cross-border e-commerce stores and SNS operations in China. They relocated their Shanghai branch office to increase operational efficiency and organizational strength by increasing the number of employees accompanying business expansion. Unbot have formulated a tag line called of the new office is “unbot Society 5.0”. Unbot’s new office space that aims to achieve both economic development and the resolution of social issues by using a system that highly integrates virtual and reality. In addition to  Improving health and convenience of office worker.

What value should be depicted in office space?Work-life balance is a rising trend nowadays. It shows what young people today consider important. Why do we talk about work-life balance? In the past, the majority of Koreans thought that spending a lot of time at work is the key to living a virtuous life. As a result, the individual’s role in life became so small and insignificant. As more and more people refuse to give up their family life or personal interests, they believe that an ideal job should have no overtime work and provide enough time for personal life. It could be said that the idea of work-life balance is to spend less time at work and focus more on other things in life.

Jasmine house is located in a small lane in Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, once belonged to Ngoc Ha Flower Village. Like many other areas around the inner city, there has been a strong urbanization process here. Yet thanks to its own unique feature of being located near the city center and diplomatic headquarters, the area gradually became a residential area of foreign community living and working in Vietnam. This has been creating a big change to the appearance and nature of buildings here. There are not only small houses for households, but also alternating larger buildings to welcome newcomers. That is why buildings with apartments for rent have been very prevalent here.

The bracing house is a multiplex house for earnings from leasing that can be easily seen in any general residential area in Seoul, but it was our intention to make it different looking to the typical multiplex house. A fundamental change is not easy due to the inherent limit of the profitable lease building that has to guarantee the maximum floor area ratio, the bracing house, by installing a pseudo-wall, shows us a definitely different look compared to the typical multiplex house that adapts to the diagonal line limitations of the setback regulation.

The pride in her status as ‘Baba-Nyonya’ 峇峇娘惹 (The descendants from the inter-ethnic marriage of the Chinese settlers and native inhabitants of Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago) is an impression that we, Studio Locomotive, has collected from meeting with ‘Mother’ (the member of the project’s owner family) during the making of ‘Hotel Gahn’ through her dressing in a floral laced blouse, batik sarong, beaded slippers, and fine antique gold jewelry, her home cooking from the family’s recipe, and her reminiscences of the ways of living in her hometown. The designing for Hotel Gahn becomes a testament to the inheritance of this Baba-Nyonya status and its ethnic traditions passing down from the Mother to her descendants.