Shenzhen Qizhushe Workshop and Exhibition Space by YI+MU

Beneath the noticeable bodily entire world, real truth shines vividly in the extensive and boundless non secular realm. Persons shell out their whole life looking for hope in goals and for soul-yearned wish, striving to enter a area that can only be arrived at by the coronary heart: the spiritual domain — a world with a perception of belonging a heat and safeguarded non secular retreat.

Shenzhen Qizhushe Workshop is positioned in the Shenzhen Artwork Design and style Centre, which was renovated from an industrial manufacturing facility in the 1980s. The workshop aims to incite the enthusiasm and creativity of designers and home furnishings craftsmen. It also serves as an exhibition location for first home furnishings and associated home equipment to the exterior environment.

Applying metaphor as a strategy, YI+MU expresses an intangible, summary strategy with a concrete, bodily area. The full room can be found as a convergence of properties and a metaphoric representation of retreat, a position in which lonely, wandering souls can obtain repose. The designers purpose to construct a warm and cozy “Nest” for the passers-by of this world, in which they can explore and shape their internal religious abodes.

The general framework is created around the only column in the heart. As the midpoint of the area, the column performs a part in stabilizing it, symbolizing the only unshakable and long lasting promise and commitment in everyday living or the best utopia we all are exploring for.

With the central column as the commencing point, the structure extends into a digital, cross-like composition, a image of perception and the expression of its connected religion. It is also the interior framework and energy that supports lifestyle and the entire space.

The spatial experience is built close to the core visible principle of the Nest, and the fortified sense of sequential design lends the complete area a emotion of outward enlargement, nevertheless with totally free-flowing and vivid air. Solid lights is made use of in the heart of the Nest, building a “house of light” effect, symbolizing the internal glow of spirituality.

Light is filtered by way of the Nest’s structures, producing a gradual flicker resembling the breaths of a dwelling physique as very well as the morphological changes of lifestyle forces. In purchase to highlight the spirituality of the Nest, the lighting for the encompassing exhibition area has been deliberately reduced, making it possible for it to diffuse from the central spot all through the whole space. With the refined swaying of light-weight and shadow, the digital and the serious interlace, filling the house with a particular vitality and spirituality.

A 19-meter-extensive block of suspended mesh exhibit racks runs via the whole house like a double-edged sword, forming a sharp but harmonious contrast with the Nest and releasing both a multi-dimensional practical experience and highly tense spatial order.

Considerable indoor area is reserved for household furniture designers to freely full both equally artistic perform and reception responsibilities. In addition to giving extra display space to primary home furniture, this also allows for the unshackled customization of displays.

Throughout the whole house, the Nest is produced from scraps discarded all through furniture creation, with these scraps retaining their first wooden coloration, whilst the relaxation of the styling is in dim-grey metal. The organic warmth of wooden and the industrial coldness of steel variety sharp conflict and distinction. The designer skillfully juxtaposes harshness and comfort and ease, generating a dynamically sophisticated psychological sensation and psychological impact and strengthening the one of a kind perception of belonging inside of the Nest.

The foyer of the house attributes a exhibit wall of legacy home furniture generation tools together with samples of contemporary home furnishings materials. They are specially curated to make the place extra participating in terms of cultural communication.

About metaphor as a basis, YI+MU breaks the boundary in between the tangible and the spiritual through the perception and expression of abstract concepts, thus expanding people’s cognition of and practical experience inside of the supplied place. In the sort of the space’s styling and visible language, it lets individuals to brush towards the indicating of everyday living further than what can be touched. It is a religious Nest to explore, soothe, and fill the gaps in their hearts as well as the infinite wishes buried deep within their spiritual essence.