Beijing WFC Building

北京WFC大厦

The office is the second space we have designed for this international investing company. Following the first office design lines client asked for a refreshing in a younger direction with the introduction of open office workstation.

Space design

The overall space has been designed trying to create a fluid open space where all functions float on.
The open office areas, the pantry, the resting areas and the reception are the open collective functions inside this space while the meeting rooms and the manager’s offices are blocks made in wood and stone floating on this open space dividing, without closing, the public functions.

The workstations are designed protected by solid terrazzo partitions in order to present a unique solid face towards the outside and to guarantee the privacy of the workers.

Style design

The idea of the general design is to maintain a high-end, elegant yet cozy atmosphere all around the open space. In this open space floor and walls are mainly covered with natural oakwood alternated to terrazzo slabs. The dropped ceiling follows the disposition of the enclosed offices exposing systems and pipes in the work station areas

The managers' offices and the meeting rooms with their monochrome design are all characterized by distinctive colors. The personal offices have more turned down colors (khaki green, pastel green, sky blue) in wall, ceiling, floor carpet and cabinet wood lacquer, while the meeting rooms have a livelier coral pink color. The turned down colors help the concentration in a relaxed mood enhancing a relaxed mood enhancing focusing while calming stress.

The coral pink in the meeting rooms is instead stimulating attention and communication. This can not only create a comfortable environment but also improve the efficiency of the meeting and make the participants feel more relaxed and joyful

Pastel green or "mint green" was a very popular color during the 50s and 60s. Coordinating the right accessories taken from that age we have obtained immediately a vintage feeling that reminds the science fiction art from the Atom Age.

Beijing, China

在我们的最后一个项目中，我们选择了一个未来的世界，在这个世界中，人工和自然在一个宁静和纯净的平衡中共存。60年代科幻小说的复兴与自然融为一体。这里有航天飞机的弧形墙壁但用的是粗糙的石膏，拱门不是完美的圆形而是自然弯曲的弧度，更像洞穴而不是平面，合成地板是鳄梨绿色的，采用了不饱和的木材，人造丙烯酸太阳照亮了大堂，然后在每个角落种上了植物、棕榈树和仙人掌，就像新的诺亚方舟一样，看上去似乎被保存了起来，以迎接一个新选择和更美好的未来。

In this project we propose a world of the future in which artifice and nature coexist in a serene and clean balance. A revival of the science fiction of the 60s integrated with nature where here are the curved walls of space shuttles but made of rustic plaster, the arches that instead of being perfectly circular have a natural curvature more similar to caves rather than planes, the synthetic floors but in avocado green color and desaturated wood, an artificial acrylic sun that enlighten the lobby area and then plants, palms and cactus in every corner that, like in a new Noah's ark, seem to be saved and preserved towards a new alternative near and better future

Beijing, China

北京山水文园

公寓位于整个单元楼顶部的三层
In this three-story apartment we tried to let coexist two different moods. At the first floor sculptural geometry, unsaturated colors, straight lines are designed to absorb daily stress and regenerate energies through peaceful, static, sill-nature like views. The second floor is designed to work as a getaway in a dreamlike mood. Natural materials warm unsaturated colors create a resort-like feeling which is completed by the big amount of light that gets in through the sun-room

在这个项目中，我们尝试将一楼的现代都市风格与第二层完全不同的度假感觉结合起来。 事实上，二楼有一个充满自然光线的大型阳光房，面向北京的一片绿地。 这带来了创造一个自然空间的想法，从东南亚或地中海氛围中唤起热带回忆，与一楼更多的城市空间相对，由更直线，更多几何图案和更灰色的颜色组成

Located in Beijing CBD district, WFC tower, the project covers an area of 288 square meters designed for an foreigner investment company 

项目位于北京CBD区，WFC 大厦，面积288平米。专为外商投资公司设计。 

Architecture from inside. We have designed this interior with the same approach as way we would have designed a city, starting from the flows/streets, rooms/building and relations between open and enclosed spaces. Permeability and fluidity are the two main keywords of this project. In fluid dynamic, permeability refers to the state or quality of a material or membrane that causes it to allow liquids or gases to pass through it. This in spatial characteristics refers to how easy a space can be penetrated from outside in and vice versa. Fluidity on the other hand is the ability of a substance to flow easily. In terms of interior space fluidity is how easily a body can move once inside a space.

Architecture from inside. 设计师认为建筑物的外部形状是内部空间的结果，反之亦然。建筑物内部和外部是有必然的关系。在设计师眼里，设计室内空间和建筑有一样的态度。方法是一样的，这才是最重要的。“流动性”和“渗透性”重要的两个特征。公共部分不是单独的走廊，是有功能性的。在空间里每个房间都有自己独特的特征。

Beijing, China

The owner of this hutong’s house is an artist. He works on his table, usually on small size paper with very simple set of tools. He needs a place that can express his own identity, a place where he not only can work, not only live in, but also store, in a convenient way, his drawings and overall where he can expose his meaningful works and let them be part of his daily life. He finally needs a place that reflects his personality and his special features

The keywords that led our design style were directly inspired by the owner features:

- Elegance as the owner got an elegant personality more than extravagant, like elegant and detailed are his paintings

- traditional as traditional are the subjects of the owner’s drawings

- colorful as the beautiful palette he uses for his paintings

We chose to use a fusion style between vintage/modern, asian/european trying to cross boundaries of time and space to offer to these special clients a never time-passing design. We used a worm and cozy style by selecting the colors directly from the palette of the owner’s paintings: red, blue, yellow, green, white and black.

A traditional ‘Chinese red’ is the main color for the public/living space reminding the red walls of the public buildings in Beijing, giving the impression not of a private home but instead as a semi-public place that will serve as showroom for the original watercolors to be exposed in their frames.

The private/night space is on the on the contrary ‘sky blue’ painted giving an intimate and relaxing atmosphere completed by the sunlight getting in through a new skylight open on the roof.

Milan, private house

Beijing - China

北京东三环别墅公寓

当“东方与西方相遇”，“当代审视过去”，“设计融入时尚”，这可能就是室内设计的样子。本项目是我们为北京一套全新的顶层公寓做的全新设计。

When “East meets West”, “Contemporary looks at the Past”, “Design melts in Fashion” this could be how an interior would look like. Our new design for a brand new penthouse in Beijing 

这套公寓基本上是时间和空间的旅行，希望用我们的客户围绕旧时代的故事，将它们与经典的亚洲元素和现代元素相结合，创造出一条连续的惊喜环境。

This apartment is basically a voyage in time and space that wants to surround our clients with elements taken by old times stories mixing them with classic Asians elements and contemporary ones creating a path of continuous unexpected environment.

Beijing

300 sqm

客户是一家广告媒体公司，北京总部位于达美中心写字楼，共计300平米，客户希望拥有一个年轻，优雅，兼备功能性的办公环境。

Soft Industrial for the open office  space Midcentury for the rest. The Midcentury gives an timeless elegance already from the entrance were a sputnik chandelier and patterned concrete tiles floor welcome the visitors. The private offices also are a jump into that romantic era where fantastical tropical wallpaper framed in cherry wood frames recall matches the ribbed glass doors and cabinet. The meeting room also is a funky jump in the past where geometrical pattern in wallpaper and carpets meet the double green grey paint at the wall, the whole framed in glossy cherry wood frames

 根据客户提出的两组不同关键词：【年轻，清新，时尚】【优雅、别致，复古】。我们把两个不同方案的设计理念融合在一起。在风格上我们选择了工业风格和50年代复古风格。工业风格为开放式办公区域，50年代复古风格为其余区域。一进门是永恒的优雅感觉，我们采用了SPUTNIK枝形吊灯、几何图案地砖和混凝屋顶。私人办公室是一个浪漫的时代风格，办公家具采用了樱桃木框架镶嵌奇幻的热带壁纸和水纹玻璃门。会议室也是现代与复古风相结合的设计理念，采用的几何撞色图案地毯和渐变颜色壁纸，整个框架也是采用亮光的樱桃木。

Beijing

We've chosen to treat the main house by emphasizing its traditional features, cleaning it by the dust of the time and giving it back the old importance that its age deserves

For the small extensions, missing of any 'time value', we wanted to give a new image, completely contemporary, using bricks in an unconventional way, creating two similar shapes that declare their belonging to the whole ensemble. Both the two extensions interiors are completely white, clean and bright to give a feeling of clean and healthy space, the contrary of what was before

For the main building all partitions are made by wood structure and padded panels to increase the sound absorbing effect and giving a more comfortable sound environment inside the house. We emphasized the relations that a courtyard house should have with its courtyard by opening completely the walls toward the yard, making the indoor floor flushed with the outdoor and covering the living room partition panels with framed wall paper with forest pattern trying to make the interior an extensions of the exterior.

Beijing, Guomao

It's an apartment located in the commercial heart of Beijing, the CBD, facing the 'Guomao San Qi' tower by SOM and the 'CCTV' tower by Rem Kooholaas.

The project moved its steps between the modern features of the existing space and the need of the owner to have a cozy home, despite the curtain-walled facade and the impressive view on one of the most contemporary skyline of Beijing.

Therefore we decided to design the space based on the tension between opposites such as 'contemporary/traditional' 'western/eastern' 'minimal/inclusive' obtaining as result a 'fusion' style that tried to solve all the tensions.

Milan, private house

designed for and in collaboration with Paolo Badesco

www.paolobadesco.it

金地 - 上海

Shanghai

3600 sqm

Milan, private house

Milan, private house

Yinchuan, Ningxia, winery / 宁夏， 银川 -  酒庄

22.000 sqm

designed for a+a, www.aplusa.archi

supervisors for Brugi Messi

http://www.brugimessi.it

Guangzhou, China

展览的装置显然是一场关于如何设计更人性化城市的讨论的挑衅。“IS意思建筑设计”创造了一个抽象的城市景观，灯箱象征着建筑，营造出一个非同寻常、出乎意料的城市空间。这种新的城市景观本身就是一个乌托邦式的概念，在游客的心中，它唤起的是一种明显的非城市空间的感觉，让人联想到度假、放松以及在海滩或大自然中自由的时光。在这个空间里，游客自然的融入其中。

The proposed installation for Guangzhou CBD expo fair in collaboration with INTERNI magazine is obviously a provocation to start a discussion on how to design more humanized cities. "IS architecture and design" creates an abstract urban landscape made of light boxes, that represent the buildings, arranged above a connective ground that evokes an unusual and unexpected urban scenario. This new cityscape is itself a utopian concept, recalling in the minds of visitors a sense of a distinctly non-urban space, reminiscent of vacationing, relaxation, and free time spent at the beach or immersed in nature. In this space, visitors naturally feel that they finally belong.

Shanghai

CIIE 2020

关于展位设计概念、我们想通过重新思考穹型拱顶，来庆祝意大利文化遗产的传承。展陈主体是一个由灯光构成的符号化的结构，隐喻地代表了当代“数码”社会里，喻示着“现实”的重力在“虚拟现实”的升华。

由罗马人开始推行的二维的拱形门和三维的穹型拱顶，是诸多伟大的建筑创新发明之一，由此拓宽了人类活动的空间，带顶棚的广场让人们可以在广场活动聚集。对抗重力，将传统建筑材料的特性又一次推向极限。

从那时起，拱顶的使用影响了建筑史，在意大利文艺复兴和巴洛克时期达到了最富有诗意和表现力的时刻。直到1900年代的奈尔维（Nervi）的混凝土拱顶，这个拱顶已经成为几个世纪以来，广为世人所知的意大利建筑的代表性形象

Italian pavilion at Shangai China International Import Export Expo

We have chosen to represent a groin vault to connote the Italy world heritage pavilion. The result is a symbolic structure made of light, a metaphor of contemporary "digital" society that aims to represent the sublimation of gravity from "reality" to "virtual reality".

The introduction by the Romans of the arch in two dimensions and the vault in three dimensions was among the greatest architectural innovations of all time.

The use of the vault from then on has conditioned the whole architecture history, reaching its most poetic and expressive moments in the Renaissance the Baroque and the modern time.

The vault has characterized the image that the world has had of Italian architecture for centuries.

Milan, wine bar

250 sqm

in collaboration with Claudia Molinari

http://www.wearemuesli.it

Milan, showroom

250 sqm