Articles by 舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang

Bake Cafe  is located in CBD of eastern lake in Suzhou, the heart of Jinrong street. It mainly operates baking, coffee and light food. The designer uses the warm design method to make the cold Cement Forest, giving customers psychological hug and a sense of belonging. Floor-one’s two meals mainly have Northern Europe style, third floor has heavy industrial style. According to the different functions, the spatial level will also have a lot od changes. The space’s light, music and nostalgic retro atmosphere make people relaxed.

SPACEMEN were commissioned to design an experiential centre for a first-of-its-kind premium lifestyle consultant and its ultra exclusive members-only club lounge. Due to the high profile of the clubs’ clientele an emphasis on discripency was of high importance.

Xi’an South Gate Plaza is located in the middle of the medial axis of Xi’an, which starts from Zhangjiapu Square in the north and ends at the TV tower in the south, crossing The Bell Tower. This axes strings together numerous cultural relics of Han, Tang, Ming, Qing dynasties and contemporary age. It is also the core area and important node of Xi’an culture, tourism, commerce and transportation. In recent years, with the social progress and economic development, the South Gate Plaza area has gradually exposed a series of problems: the disorder of traffic organization, the inferior quality of square environment, the weak accessibility from outside the plaza, the chaos styles of surrounding landmarks build in different ages.

This project is located on the first floor of Infinitus Tower by the shoreline of Taiping Lake in Shanghai.

At Goertek Green Town – Peach Garden, in Weifang city, there is a library of the youths – Time Books. It will undertake part of the sales center function temporarily before formal delivery of the residential community. In the future, it will be a bookstore, ranging from reading area to coffee, light restaurant, flower store, children’s play area and bar all in one.

The XinXian Inn Hotel is located in the centre of Beijing, the Dongcheng District around the corner of Galaxy Soho on the eastern 2nd Ring road. The low-budget Hotel is neighbouring the Xinxian Hutong, a large area with traditional Chinese courtyard houses, which entrances are now mostly blocked by newly constructed commercial buildings. Throughout Beijing, the rich culture and vivid life-style of the Hutong areas are mostly getting replaced by high-profitable and shallow real-estate blocks. With the XinXian Inn Hotel, we tried to incorporate the atmosphere and history of the Hutong areas into a hospitality design. 

Preparations
The M.Y.Lab Wood Workshop is located on the first floor of a warehouse, which used to be the Dongfeng Sofa Factory in Changning District, Shanghai. Adjacent to the warehouse, it is stood a new-built 150㎡ attached room, forming a triangle lacunain-between. The task is to refurbish the 300㎡ one-storey warehouse into a two-storey commercial space, which is to be operated as a wood crafting learning centre.

Jiangnan of China, has enjoyed the”earthly paradise”reputation since ancient times of its staggered rivers and lakes, vertical and horizontal waterways, small bridges and tasteful towns. A typical canal town named Jin Xi, located in the picturesque scenery of Jiangnan, known as “the hometown of Chinese folk museum” with two thousand years of history.There is an old saying here before “thirty-six bridges must have seventy-two kilns.” Lots of kilns were produced golden bricks in the past, and the brick kiln culture is so profound and indispensable for the town.

V&A Gallery opens today at Design Society in Shekou, Shenzhen, as part of a unique international collaboration

This case continues Street Canvas issues, looking for urban corner space, implanted different functions which are coffee shop, dancing classroom, and office area.