Silver A' Design Award Winner 2025
This expansive interior environment presents a double-height commercial lobby and community gathering space, captured during golden hour when spectacular sunset light floods through floor-to-ceiling windows. Scanning from left to right across the composition, the leftmost zone features intimate café seating with terracotta-colored upholstered chairs arranged around small circular tables, their warm rust tones like autumn leaves against the pale gray polished floor. A bookshelf unit holds colorful volumes creating rainbow-like horizontal bands. Moving toward center, the generous circulation corridor extends beneath a sophisticated ceiling featuring parallel linear coffers with recessed lighting strips that glow with soft warm-white illumination, creating rhythmic horizontal bands like piano keys stretched across the overhead plane. The floor throughout is smooth polished stone in dove gray with subtle cream veining, cool and solid underfoot like riverbed slate. Through the expansive glazing wall, the sky presents layers of color shifting from peachy coral near the horizon through soft lavender to pale blue above, casting warm amber light throughout the space like honey dissolving in water. In the right portion, a dramatic stepped platform ascends in terrazzo—smooth, granular stone aggregate in cream tones—toward a striking feature wall composed of glass blocks in amber, gold, and honey tones, glowing warmly like candlelight through golden paper. A graceful indoor tree rises beside the stairs, its delicate leaves suggesting birch or similar species, accompanied by tropical palm fronds adding lush green warmth. Scattered seating groups in neutral fabrics with terracotta and vermillion accent pieces invite gathering. The atmosphere feels welcoming, contemplative, and luminous.
By integrating immersive experiences with local culture, Zhanjiang Chengfa Runyue Life Lab Center evolves from a traditional sales space into a hybrid urban lifestyle hub that balances functionality and aesthetics. Its open, multifunctional design transcends the limitations of traditional sales centers, enriched with diverse cultural elements and amenities to cater to young families who value both socializing and quality of life. Beyond propelling neighborhood development, it establishes an innovative urban culture model for Zhanjiang.