Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020
Scanning from the distant background toward the foreground of this interior architectural space designed by WenLi Wu, the description begins with a large translucent glass panel stretching across nearly the full width of the rear wall, framed by a thin dark border and illuminated from within or behind to reveal a luminous spherical form resembling a moon, its surface showing mottled textures in soft silver-white and pale lavender tones, cool like moonlight on snow, creating a gentle glow that suffuses the space with contemplative light. The ceiling above appears in pristine white with a dramatic curved element on the left side where the wall meets ceiling in an organic sweeping transition rather than sharp corner, while recessed linear light fixtures create soft glowing lines that trace the ceiling's perimeter like morning light filtering through curtains. Moving to the middle ground and right of center, a striking sculptural desk installation commands attention: a horizontal slab approximately body-length extends like a cantilevered diving board, its surface appearing smooth and cool as polished stone in medium gray tones, supported by a faceted crystalline base rendered in deep sapphire and midnight blue that catches light across its angular surfaces like cut gemstone, cool and weighty as river ice. The walls flanking this scene present smooth white surfaces, matte and quiet as fresh plaster, with subtle dark linear elements near floor level suggesting careful material transitions. Dominating the immediate foreground stretches an expansive floor of highly polished black material, mirror-smooth and reflective as still water at night, creating perfect inverted reflections of every element above: the glowing sphere doubles into a ghostly twin below, the sculptural desk extends downward into infinite depth, and the white ceiling finds its shadow-self in the dark surface. The overall atmosphere feels hushed and temperature-controlled, neither warm nor cold but precisely neutral, the air seemingly still and clear, with the quality of light suggesting neither harsh daylight nor artificial warmth but rather an ambient luminosity like perpetual twilight or the soft glow before dawn.
If the sales office does not treat the sales as a kind of mission, it would endow more possibilities for space, so the design will be infused by more inspiration and less limit. The building is not only a sales office but also a mini-type library. The designer hopes the building can make progress and have self-actualization after accomplishing the simple mission instead of still remaining at a level just to solve simple function. Furthermore, the designer also expects that it can be given personal and social value, which can inspire people and transfer warmth and energy in the future.