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Guangzhou Science City LN Residence Apartment by Muchuan Xu

Guangzhou Science City LN Residence Apartment

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2021

Scanning from background to foreground through this contemporary residential lobby interior, listeners encounter a generous double-height space with distinctive architectural character. The ceiling plane overhead appears as a smooth white surface punctuated by numerous small recessed lights creating a scattered constellation effect like stars across an evening sky. Dominating the right and center portions stands a substantial architectural wall structure clad in panels with the warm, muted tone of milky tea or light bronze, smooth and likely cool to the touch like polished metal or laminate. This structure features multiple rectangular recessed openings at different heights, each lined with copper-colored material that glows warmly from concealed lighting within, creating golden amber pools of light like sunset through windows. The wall form projects and recedes in geometric volumes, with a horizontal band of reflective copper-toned material running beneath an upper level opening. To the left background, glimpsed beyond the central structure, sits a lounge area with comfortable seating, decorative shelving displaying objects in red and neutral tones, and an illuminated display screen showing imagery. The foreground floor presents an elegant geometric pattern: broad areas of creamy white stone, smooth as polished marble and likely cool underfoot, intersecting with darker charcoal grey stone sections creating angular pathways. Standing prominently in the center-right foreground, a sculptural figure draws immediate attention—a rounded, friendly character approximately waist-height to an adult, rendered in cheerful sky blue with small teal-colored horns or ears, smooth and glossy like glazed ceramic, its rotund form suggesting warmth and approachability. To the far right, through glass partitions, a dining or meeting area with light wooden chairs and warm pendant lighting creates an intimate secondary space. The overall atmosphere feels welcoming yet refined, warm yet spacious.

The design focuses on the combination with local cultural characteristics, which comes from the urban appearance of Guangzhou's inspiration. Extracting square boxes as design elements to reshape the urban neighborhood relationship and create neighborhood shared space, using modern modeling and new material collocation, combined with local cultural characteristics, throughout the lobby bar, restaurant, shared space, gym and multi-function meeting room and other public space.