Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020
Loong Swim Club
by Xiang Li
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: X+Living
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 45,519
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About Loong Swim Club
The combination of service-oriented business with new business forms is a trend. The designer experimentally integrates the subsidiary functions of the project with main business, re-optimizes the main functions of parent-child sports training, and builds the project into a comprehensive space for swimming and sports education, integrating entertainment and leisure.
Li Xiang's Loong Swim Club represents a remarkable achievement in contemporary recreational interior design, transforming a functional aquatic facility into an immersive environment that invites visitors into a realm of unbounded imagination and visual enchantment. The design demonstrates extraordinary command of spatial manipulation through the strategic deployment of a mirrored ceiling that effectively doubles the visual complexity of the sculptural program while suggesting infinite vertical expansion beyond physical boundaries. The biomorphic sculptural elements, rendered in carefully calibrated hues ranging from cool slate blue through warm peach to fresh sage green, exhibit meticulous attention to decorative detail, with each form featuring distinctive surface patterns including concentric medallions, scalloped borders, and organic arabesques that reward sustained visual exploration. The chromatic strategy achieves sophisticated balance through analogous color harmony tempered by strategic complementary relationships, creating visual interest without overwhelming the senses. The dramatic black-and-white polka dot flooring establishes a graphic foundation that grounds the organic exuberance above while introducing playful geometric rhythm into the composition. This interior environment suggests dialogue with various artistic traditions including Surrealist biomorphism, the immersive installations of contemporary experiential design, and the joyful maximalism that characterizes celebratory public spaces designed to transport visitors beyond quotidian experience. The integration of functional seating elements within the sculptural landscape demonstrates thoughtful consideration of human use within the fantastical environment. Visitors might contemplate how the environment transforms the experience of entering a recreational facility into an encounter with wonder, and how such spaces might cultivate imaginative engagement across generations of users.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The entire parent-child swimming pool uses a gentle color sense, and does not distinguish color in gender intentionally. The black thin-line adds a bit of avant-garde fashion to the overall space. Meanwhile, it also achieves the spatial aestheticin terms of composition. The different sizes of ratio, from two centimeters of arched laces to three meters of arched doors, constitute the aesthetic proportional logic of the space. In order to create an intrusive dreamy experience, design without accent lighting is used, which motivates people to explore every corner in the space.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The floor area of the project is 2200 sqm.
- Tags
- swimming pool, child's play, entertainment, sports, education, children, library
- Production Technology
- The entire parent-child swim club is divided into five main functional areas and some auxiliary functional areas, all of which are centered around the behavioral habits of its target audience. In order to break the limitation of the spatial floor plan, the designer has worked out a streamlined flow after fully considering the user habits and potential behaviors of different target groups, so that adults, children and infants could all enjoy its caring service on this line.
- Design Challenge
- The age range of the target group is wide. Not only middle-aged parents but also grandparents would bring the little ones here. Therefore, to take into consideration all their needs and experiences has been a great challenge of this project.
- Project Duration
- The project is finished in May 2019 in Suzhou, China.
- Operation Flow
- At the end of the corridor is the main functional area, bath area, which is divided into infant bath area and adult bath area. The huge flower chandelier is a more eye-catching visual stop in the infant bath area, and it is also the best demonstrate of the reflection of designer on consumer characteristics and children aesthetic education. The low-key, solid-colored lampshade hides inside it beautiful patterns. When the children are lying in the tub, they are facing the pattern in front of their sight. The designer hopes to start with the small details of the space to cultivate good aesthetic capacity of children from childhood.
- Research
- The combination of service-oriented business with new business forms is a trend. The designer experimentally integrates the subsidiary functions of the project with main business, re-optimizes the main functions of parent-child sports training, and builds the project into a comprehensive space for swimming and sports education, integrating entertainment and leisure.
- Inspiration
- The design thinking of the space is closely centered on the water. For example, the big whale that wraps around the column, as if it is going to jump out of the water. The reception desk uses the shape of the ship, and the small arc lace outlined on the bottom is simplified wave that pushes the ship. Looking up at the lights in the reading area, the round lampshade is like small sprays of water splashing in the sky, shining in the air. Different design element echo with each other, through which the designer is able to realize the completeness in the space narrative.
- Image Credits
- Image#1: Photographer Shao Feng, Loong Swim Club, 2019.
Image#2: Photographer Shao Feng, Loong Swim Club, 2019.
Image#3: Photographer Shao Feng, Loong Swim Club, 2019.
Image#4: Photographer Shao Feng, Loong Swim Club, 2019.
Image#5: Photographer Shao Feng, Loong Swim Club, 2019. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Shao Feng, 2019.