Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2012
Chongqing Mountain and City Sales Office Sales Office
by Ajax Law
- A' Design Award 2012 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2012
- CLIENT: Shanghai Forte Land Co. Ltd.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 51,413
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About Chongqing Mountain and City Sales Office Sales Office
“Mountain” is the main theme of this sales office, which is inspired by the geographical background of Chongqing. The pattern of grey marbles on the floor is forming in triangular shape; and there are lots of odd and sharp angles and corners on the feature walls and the irregular shaped reception counters, to demonstrate the concept of “mountain”. In addition, the stairs connecting the floors are designed to be a passage through the cave. Meanwhile, LED lightings are hanged from the ceiling, imitating raining scene in valley and presenting natural feeling, to soften the whole impression.
Ajax Law's acclaimed interior for the Mountain and City Sales Office exemplifies the convergence of parametric design thinking with immersive experiential architecture, creating a spatial narrative that transforms a commercial function into an encounter with the sublime. The design appears to draw inspiration from geological formations, translating the raw beauty of fractured stone and mineral crystallization into a built environment of commanding presence and refined material expression. The architect demonstrates exceptional command of geometric complexity, orchestrating multiple intersecting planes that create dynamic spatial sequences while maintaining compositional coherence through consistent material language and chromatic restraint. The limited palette of cool gray stone varieties, distinguished by their linear textural character, establishes a monolithic quality reminiscent of natural canyon walls or carefully carved grottos, inviting associations with the mountainous landscape suggested in the project's title. Against this mineral envelope, the introduction of sculptural bronze elements provides essential warmth and human scale, their burnished surfaces catching and reflecting ambient light to create focal points that ground the expansive volume. The pendant light installation represents a particularly poetic gesture, its cascading vertical elements suggesting natural phenomena such as rainfall, stalactites, or the filtering of light through forest canopy, while the mirrored ceiling treatment amplifies this effect into an apparently infinite vertical dimension. The design demonstrates how commercial architecture might transcend transactional function to create memorable spatial experiences that engage visitors emotionally and sensorially. One might consider how the interplay between geological permanence and ephemeral light effects speaks to enduring questions about the relationship between natural and constructed environments, between timeless material presence and momentary luminous experience.
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- Unique Properties
- “Mountain” being selected as the main theme of this clubhouse, the design is inspired by the location of the project - Chongqing Nanshan District, it is a valley surrounded by hills. Inspired by the geographical background, the grand slanted feature wall and the marble floor pattern are in triangular forms.
The massive triangular features are abstracting from the “mountain”. The pattern of grey marbles on the floor is forming in triangular shape. Together with the feature wall and the irregular shaped reception counters, the “mountain” concept being demonstrated. In addition, the stairs connecting the floors are designed to be a passage through the cave.
“Grey” being selected as the main theme colour, the reception counters are in pale champagne gold colour. Designers minimized the materials and colors being used, they even eliminated all unnecessary decorative items to bring in the “natural” feeling.
This sales office is designed in a modern style with a lot of odd and sharp angles and corners on the feature walls and the irregular shaped reception counters, all these can give a hard and stiff impression to the visitors. Designers make use of the LED lightings to soften the whole impression.
Designers make use of the LED lightings, and it becomes one of the special features in this sales office. LED are rarely to be used in such manner. The LED lightings are hanged from the ceiling, imitating the raining scene in the valley and presenting the natural feeling. With those LED lightings, irregular shape reception counter and the slanted irregular walls, it was a modern and abstract design derived from the natural environment in Chongqing. The visitors are excited to have this spatial experience but also feel relax and comfortable in the sales office. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 1600 sq. meters
- Production Technology
- Roller blind, Carpet, Fabric, Mirror, Glass, Marble, Corian stone, Paint, Plastic laminate, Outdoor timber decking, Stainless steel, Wallpaper
- Design Challenge
- It was a modern and abstract design derived from the natural environment in Chongqing.To build the mountain scene, designers piled up the linear marbles strips and formed the irregular walls. Designer has to handle the irregular shapes of the slanted walls and the marble floor pattern carefully. As this is difficult to present the three dimensional design on drawings, designers built model to study the irregular forms and space of the entire space including all the bar and reception counters.
- Project Duration
- The project is completed in Dec 2011, and located in Chongqing, China.
- Inspiration
- The design is inspired by the geographical background of Chongqing