Interview with Yi Chen & Muchen Zhang

After graduated from university,, we designed some residential and real estate projects, which gained a lot of popularity and won some good reputation in the industry, so we therefore switched toward this direction and became a designer.

Our design is carried out in line with respecting nature and the environment, showcase cultural literacy and spiritual pursuit behind the space. mainly in a way of ‘seclusion ’. That is to reduce human intervention, whilst accentuating nature, keeping a mentality of humbleness to the environment. An excellent design must have souls. We infiltrate design into our lives. Let the form of this design reveal itself faintly. What we are trying to do is to make design disappear and let it go back to humanity itself. This is also a process that makes tangible into intangible.

There is an opportunity to release our imaginary space, which is exciting for us.

The background of being an artist has influenced our design.

Learn from our failures.we have no any planning for our future, but we believe God will lead us forward. We hope to be able to get the opportunity to design a church. It is not only our dream, but also in connection with our beliefs.

Feel the life and full of passion to design, constantly self-denial, self-transcendence.

Thinking about design projects and art works can't just be think about the form, more importantly it's to think about that let the space filling the soul. This is a process that makes tangible design intangible. This is what we think of as the highest state.

We live a simple life every day. Think about the design or walk outside during the day, take care of the child and meeting with the company in Beijing at night. We also go to the church on weekend.

We focus on the needs of current society, but we don't pursue state of art design trends.

Design quality is reflected in whether the design works showcase cultural literacy and spiritual pursuit behind the space. An excellent design must have souls.

Every corner of the space has already presented the perfect state, the primary and secondary relations in the space also dealt with very reasonable, the mood in the space also expressed fully. At this point, the space design can be finished.

Blue Lake House & Blue Lake Restaurant

We seek inspiration and absorb nutrients more from the realm of art. The artists we admire are more in number than the designers we admire, and these include the ancient Chinese artists Badashanren (pseudonym for Zhu Da) and Xuwei as well as the Spanish Salvador Dali, Max Beckmann, representative figure of German Expressionism, and others.

We use artistic angle to think; to stand in the angle of the Christian faith to observe the world and our life state. We also on our's eastern culture background to locate our own aesthetic direction.

We focused on integrating life into our design, allowing our spiritual design to be absorbed into nature. Our ultimate pursuit is to appreciate, embrace and consider nature in our designs.

Design a novel, quality space that should be capable to maximize customer benefits and truly help make their dreams come true. In the meantime, it is our hope to showcase feelings of holiness, simplicity and intangibility in every space we design, thus reflecting the supreme spirit of God through our space.

I think it is a good opportunity to communicate with each other.

Design makes the ambiance better and more comfortable, and this is one motivation for us becoming designers.

Yes, when we realized that design is interesting, we chose to become designers.

Our design stresses on combining humanities and nature. We wish to do more in the design that combines well the space and the natural environment.

Have a correct understanding of oneself, value every chance with patience, and do a good job in every design.

A good designer provides his client with a satisfactory design, while a great designer understands himself by the design done for his client and uses his design to elevate and change people’s aesthetic faculties and spiritual taste.

A good design is one that is soul-touching and soul-purifying.

Design is productivity. A good design changes the mentality and finds the value in environment and space. Everybody may appreciate better the beauty of life from design.

The clients who appreciate our design and have a very high requirement for design style and taste.

Design a Church.

Work diligently, be mindful of every detail in design, and enjoy design and work.

Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe.

Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudi. This building draws quite some of its shapes from natural forms, and displays from its interior to exterior both imagination and holy and pure sacredness.

The Fire of Holy Spirit. Because this design was very pure to find the inner spiritual pursuit and belief of people. It was pure without any business purpose at all.

One should elevate their cultivation in art and culture, one should enhance their taste of art, and one should have faith.

I reckon that we would be artists or painters.

Design represents a sort of life that is full of art and imagination.

We, as partners in both life and work, are the biggest supporter and encouraging force to each other.

Unyielding determination, humble and absorptive attitude.

Self-righteousness, arrogance, and self-importance

A good design shall be shared.

Our next project is a restaurant and it covers interior design. The project, when completed, may hopefully become a symbol of the integration between building and environment.

Let people touch the invisible spiritual world by means of visible design.

To get more spiritual enjoyment from a good design.

A good design changes the mentality and the way of life and discovers the value in environment and space. A good design enables people to enjoy more of life and to elevate their new understanding and pursuit in spirit and culture.

We are working on a restaurant, the work incorporating it's interior design. We are anticipating its completion.

Blue Lake House & Blue Lake Restaurant, BaoDing XinHua Bookstore, The Fire Of Holy Spirit, Blooming Restaurant. These were our most satisfactory works. Because these works got rid of the simple material expression, but made more pursuit and exploration in the aspect of human spiritual demand.

I wish future designs will respect nature more, coexist with nature, get rid of human arrogance and self-importance, and become humble designs.

We believe the design field is to develop towards being people-oriented, and towards integration and symbiosis between human and nature.

It varies from half a year to several years.

We begin with studying its neighboring environment, its requirements and positioning, and its strengths and weaknesses. Next, we would determine the design style and the plan layout.

Spiritual Design, Poetic Expression.

We think they interact with each other, and both are possible.

Technology plays a secondary role, and the expression of mind is the dominant force.

CAD, PhotoShop, 3DMAX, SketchUp, etc.

Very important. They are inseparable from design and form.

We wish they would be more attentive to the spiritual request and cultural content our design projects seek to express.

Very excited, and satisfied in both heart and spirit.

Yi Chen. Yes, we have always been co-designers.

God. Reading the Bible gives us quite many inspirations.

The Holy Bible.

Never stop to learn from nature, life, and culture.

Myself in childhood and myself in old age, discussing with the former the trouble and pleasure of growing up and the latter the meaning and experience of life.

We are pleased to receive these awards. It gives a great stimulation to us if our design projects are recognized by professionals in this community. I must say our road of design is not without bumpiness. But, we believe our awards all came so naturally because we have always been trying to do good designs, without caring about the likelihood of becoming famous and receiving awards.

Orange, sea, ice cream, summer, and plant. My favorite brand is Alexander McQueen.

Once, we were asked to design an office for an entrepreneur, who appeared to be a person of the traditional type, not having much demand on design and fashion at the start of our work. When the project was completed, he had changed much, from dressing to hairdo, becoming much more avant-garde and fashionable. He said it was our design that had changed him.

A delicious supper after a day of work.

Not exactly. Actually, we have always been wanting to become great artists.

We have no idea what will happen and only God knows what would happen in a thousand years from now. We have entrusted everything to God, under whose guidance we perform our duty and work of the day.

A good design must be a design with a soul. Our design took an essential and great leap after we had a faith.

Expressing faith and cherishing the soul through space with undying spirituality as part of its ultimate spiritual journey, Beijing Fenghemuchen Space Design is a design company that pushes for cultural extension and artistic communication while fully respecting spiritual creativity as well as the balanced relationship between man and space.

Design represents a sort of life that is full of art and imagination.

Making our something dreaming come true.

Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudi. This building draws quite some of its shapes from natural forms, and displays from its interior to exterior both imagination and holy and pure sacredness.

We begin with studying its neighboring environment, its requirements and positioning, and its strengths and weaknesses. Next, we would determine the design style and the plan layout.

When we are in nature or in oline.

Our design foucs more on combining humanities and nature.

Happy, excited, stressful and so on.

Very excited, and satisfied in both heart and spirit.

Work diligently.

A good design is one that is soul-touching and soul-purifying.

Try our best to combine well the space and the natural environment.

We believe the design field is to develop towards being people-oriented, and towards integration and symbiosis between human and nature.

We participated in Venice Design 2018 this year. Our project, The Fire Of Holy, is exhibiting in Venice from May to November in 2018. The next exhibition is no plan now.

From nature, life, and culture. Keep on learning to feed our creativity. May be everything.

Our design stresses on combining humanities and nature. We wish to do more in the design that combines well the space and the natural environment. Work diligently, be mindful of every detail in design, and enjoy design and work.

Vancouver, Canada. Yes, it is. The cultural heritage will not only gives us sources of inspirations but also stifles the thoughts.

We will choose appropriate style according to the requirements.

Respecting for designers' thoughts. A good designer provides his client with a satisfactory design.

We will deeply understand the customers requirements, and then do an accurate positioning for project. Then we will discuss, conceive and design the project. Further complete and execute the project after communicating with the clients.

We like and collect three lamps from America in the 1950s and two tea tables from Indonesia.

Our daily life is actually very simple. We usually walk in the wild, do design and paint during the day while meet and communicate with company colleagues and Party A on the project in the evening. We also need to take care of our children.

Work diligently, be mindful of every detail in design, and enjoy design and work.

Design is interesting and makes the ambiance better and more comfortable but it also spends a lot of time in our life.

Unyielding determination, humble and absorptive attitude.

Enjoying the beauty.

CAD, PhotoShop, 3DMAX, SketchUp, etc.

Doing what when it should be in it's time.

It varies from half a year to several years.

Why do you think so?

The Fire of Holy Spirit. Because this design was very pure to find the inner spiritual pursuit and belief of people. It was pure without any business purpose at all.

Companies and privates.

The design respects nature more, coexist with nature. It's our wish.

I wish future designs will respect nature more, coexist with nature, get rid of human arrogance and self-importance, and become humble designs.

Yes, we work as a team. Muchen Zhang and I were responsible for working out plans, with others tasked to flesh out and follow through them.

No, thanks.

People can contact to us by fenghemuchen@163.com.