Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020
Meland Kids 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: 46,713
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About Meland Kids Club
The entire project has completed the excellent expression of the theme parent-child indoor playground, showing a high degree of completeness and consistency in the streamline and space narrative. The subtle line design connects different functional areas and realizes the rationality of the visitors flows. The narrative of the space, in turn, connects different spaces through a complete plot and leads the consumers to experience the wonderful journey of parent-child interaction.
Li Xiang's Meland Kids Club emerges from a rich tradition of immersive commercial environments that seek to transform functional spaces into experiential narratives, positioning itself within a contemporary design discourse that values wonder, play, and multisensory engagement. The interior demonstrates remarkable fluency in translating childhood imagination into architectural reality, employing a sophisticated formal vocabulary that references mid-century optimism while embracing contemporary material possibilities. The monumental translucent dome structure serves as both focal point and threshold, its rose-tinted transparency suggesting passage into realms of fantasy while maintaining visual connection to the surrounding environment. Technical accomplishment manifests throughout in the precise calibration of chromatic relationships, where warm and cool tones achieve dynamic equilibrium through careful distribution across architectural surfaces, furniture elements, and lighting fixtures. The scalloped edge treatments and curved geometries that characterize structural elements demonstrate sensitive understanding of how organic forms can soften commercial environments and invite tactile engagement. Particularly noteworthy passages include the embedded ceiling illumination that transforms the overhead plane into a celestial panorama, and the bold color-blocking of booth seating that creates islands of chromatic intensity within the lavender expanse. The design invites consideration of how commercial spaces might transcend transactional functions to become sites of genuine delight, where the boundaries between architecture, furniture, and fantasy dissolve into unified experiential environments. One might contemplate how such spaces shape childhood memory and perception, establishing early relationships with built environments that privilege imagination, color, and wonder as fundamental architectural values.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Each functional area is like a different part of the city and has its own design style. For example, the ball pool is located in the southwest corner of the plane space, like an undeveloped jungle at the edge of the city. The space adopts a rich and dramatic stage color, which outlines the mystery and grotesqueness of Grimm's fairy tale. Meanwhile, the houses simulating the architectural design of the Potala Palace have increased the streamlined feel of the entire space.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The floor area of the project is 3100 sqm.
- Tags
- Li Xiang, entertainment, leisure park, indoor playground, children
- Production Technology
- The car-shaped shoe cabinets are interlaced and arranged in a row, which not only added a sense of dynamics to the space of the static life, but also quickly mobilized consumer curiosity and attracted their attention to the next space. The chimney-like columns in the restaurant are covered with transparent pale pink bubbles. Inside the bubble is the play area for the children, and the dining tables are distributed around the bubbles. It makes it easier for parents to look after the children while making reasonable use of the space.
- Design Challenge
- The high ceiling of the main funtional area has enabled the designer to play her imagination and creativity. However, it also increased the difficulty of construction. Therefore, to well balance the aesthetics and funtion and make the fantastic imagination come ture has been a real challenge to the designer.
- Project Duration
- The project finished in June 2019 in Wuhan, China.
- Operation Flow
- Designers have abandoned the traditional design approach of relying on finished entertainment facilities, and rebuilt a perfect consumer experience which fully considers and meets the psychological needs of diverse target groups. The MELAND Club has become not only a large parent-child indoor playground, but also a dreamland that breaks through the imagination boundary between adults and children and a memory album that preserves the good times of parents and children.
- Research
- With the increasing demand for consumer experiences, the kids park is no longer just a place to entertain, but also a place for parent-child interaction and immersive experiences. Designers have abandoned the traditional design approach of relying on finished entertainment facilities, and rebuilt a perfect consumer experience which fully considers and meets the psychological needs of diverse target groups.
- Inspiration
- The designing concept of this project is City. Simulating the construction of a city, the designer skillfully connects all the functional areas. Parents and children may feel like exploring and playing in a real city here. Through the space narrative, the designer has created a mysterious land where the imagination of children could be fully inspired. The recurrent design element, clock, is a metaphor in the space through which the designer intend to remind the parents to cherish the time spent with their children.
- Image Credits
- Image#1: Photographer Shao Feng, Meland Club, 2019.
Image#2: Photographer Shao Feng, Meland Club, 2019.
Image#3: Photographer Shao Feng, Meland Club, 2019.
Image#4: Photographer Shao Feng, Meland Club, 2019.
Image#5: Photographer Shao Feng, Meland Club, 2019. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Shao Feng, 2019.
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