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Silver Interior · 2024

Rongbaohang BMW 5S Store

by Yixian Chen

  • Silver A' Design Award 2024 in Interior
  • CLIENT: CX Design
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 24,007
  • Verification code FD456CD250 · Verify this award
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About Rongbaohang BMW 5S Store

Rongbaohang BMW is an automobile dealership interior located in Tianjin. The layout follows a continuous circular circulation route. The ceilings of the first and second floors are covered with blue transparent acrylic panels, arranged to suggest driving trajectories and flowing water ripples. These panels echo a water landscape formed by a water curtain and a pool. Sustainability guides the project, and the lighting system was rebuilt with wooden grilles set at the high windows. The office area was reduced so that the customer lounge could be enlarged.

About the Silver A' Design Award

Rongbaohang BMW 5S Store is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Rongbaohang BMW 5S Store is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Rongbaohang BMW 5S Store is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Unique Properties
It is one of BMW's regulatory requirements for global construction to adopt green, low-carbon, and sustainable energy, so this case incorporates the concept of sustainability into every detail of the entire project. The design team restructured the overall lighting system and interspersed wooden grilles at the high windows, integrating the gentle natural texture with modern technology, so that the space could show a hazy and elegant charm in light and shadow.
Dimensions & Packaging
The total area of the exhibition hall is 3496 square meters, with the original office area occupying 535 square meters, customer lounge area of 568 square meters, and vehicle display area of 1105 square meters. After the renovation, the office space was reduced to 235 square meters, accounting for approximately 50% of the original area; the customer lounge area has expanded to 899 square meters, an increase of approximately 30%; while the vehicle display area now occupies 1170 square meters.
Tags
Interior, Commercial, Modern, Natural, Elegant, Store, BMW
Production Technology
In terms of engineering costs, since the cost of the integrated acrylic board exceeds Party A's budget, after repeated verification and revisions, the designer split the version in the original draft reasonably, customized acrylic parts of different sizes, and then assembled and installed them, which not only greatly reduced the cost, but also ensured the beauty of the landscape.
Design Challenge
Large projects often face a variety of challenges, mainly reflected in two aspects: labor and cost. To set up such a massive water curtain in this project, advanced calculations are required for temperature control, flow rate, orientation, waveform, and other parameters to ensure precise control. In the actual construction process, waterproofing and moisture-proofing of the floor are of utmost importance.
Research
This case is located in Binhai New Area, Tianjin. As the pearl of Bohai Bay, the region is blessed with a unique geographical advantage. It is currently the largest and highest-level 5S store in the region, which is also of great strategic significance. Based on the environment, designers extract the element of "water", allowing the ocean imagery that symbolizes vastness and wisdom to run through the entire space. Creating a top-down water system landscape through later soft decoration.
Inspiration
The BMW brand advocates satisfying the greatest wishes of customers with the latest science and technology and the most advanced ideas in a vast space and time, promotes BMW joy, which is deeply compatible with the lifestyle of contemporary people who pursue vitality, passion and freedom. The designer comprehensively considered the local environment, conformed to the urban spirit, and reinterpreted the existing space with sustainability as the design principle.
Project Duration
The project started in August 2022 in Tianjin and finished in January 2023 in Tianjin.
Operation Flow
Gently touch the button in front of the niche. As the secret door opens, the new car delivery workshop reveals its true appearance, full of tension in drama sense. The designer chose to build interior walls and soft decoration with simple forms interpreting complex expressions, allowing the focus of the space return to the product itself. At the same time, the construction of a sense of ceremony also provides consumers with sufficient emotional value.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Rex Duan, 2023.
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Rex Duan, Rongbaohang BMW, 2023.
Image #2: Photographer Rex Duan, Rongbaohang BMW, 2023.
Image #3: Photographer Rex Duan, Rongbaohang BMW, 2023.
Image #4: Photographer Rex Duan, Rongbaohang BMW, 2023.
Image #5: Photographer Rex Duan, Rongbaohang BMW, 2023.

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