Shenzhen Yanlord Dream Center

BCI Interior Design Awards 2024 | Commercial Category: Merit

The design brief of this transit-linked retail complex, spanning 100,000 square metres, was to bring out the concept of ‘borderless retail’ and in doing so, enhance visual connectivity between multiple floors while optimising spatial voids. The approach was to strategically construct a suite of structural attributes along with a clever use of colour, in an attempt to depart from conventional mall settings.

Vertical structures of dynamic outlines help anchor key programmes

VIBRANT COLOUR APPLICATION TO ENHANCE VERTICAL CONNECTION
The colour orange is the most striking visual element that draws attention to the interior space. Vertical structures of dynamic outlines help anchor key interior programmes.

In the atrium, an angular stairway connecting level one and level two has its underside mounted with greenery, to complement its green-hued balustrade panels. The soffit was also completed with a water feature—a column with a mirror-like finish on which water ripples over—to extend the perception of verticality to the basement floor, where a reception counter stands.

The underside of an angular stairway was completed with greenery and a water feature

At an entrance hall, the users on level three can opt for the staircase to make their way down to level two. Having a fluid form, the path is lined with balustrade panels of orange.

From left to right: Jan Chan, Maggie Ma, Dennis Chan, Michael Hui, Terry Chung

WOODS BAGOT
Woods Bagot is a global architecture studio with the aim of creating people-centred architecture that celebrates diversity across cultures. Sharing a conviction that the values of end users and the values of design are one and the same, the team aspires to place human experience at the heart of their practice in order to deliver engaging, future-oriented projects.

PROJECT DATA
Project Name
Shenzhen Yanlord Dream Center
Location
Shenzhen, China
Completion Date
December 2022
Client/Owner/Developer
Yanlord Land Group Limited
Gross Floor Area
26,880 square metres
Interior Design Firm
Woods Bagot
Principal Designer
Christopher Lye
Lighting Consultant
Dasun Environmental Art Co Ltd
Interior Fit-Out Contractor
Shenzhen Jingyuanda Construction Group Co Ltd
Images
Woods Bagot

This is an excerpt. The original article is published in
Construction+ Q3 2024 Issue: Constructing Healthcare.
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