Silver Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020
Whyte Woolf Fitness Club
by Arthur Yang
- A' Design Award 2020 Silver Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Outerspace Design Firms
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 41,167
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About Whyte Woolf Fitness Club
Whyte Woolf is a fitness club interior located in Dalian. The project covers 1700 square meters inside a building with church form architecture. The original ceiling was fully preserved and then painted with murals that use anatomy as their subject, replacing traditional mythological scenes with a modern visual language. Terrazzo, steel plate, aluminium alloy and hollow sheet are the main materials. The intent is to keep the spirit of the traditional form while creating a clearly different interior experience.
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- Unique Properties
- Church form architecture is already rare in the East, giving the impression that most people are sacred, and the ceiling painted mythological stories, which seems to have formed a fixed mind. This work wants to express how to design a different type of space in a building with a sense of form. Breakthrough became the first theme. Breakthroughs don't mean giving up traditional things, but retaining important parts to change.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1700 square meter
- Tags
- Fitness, Break though, Church, Difference, Dissection.
- Production Technology
- Terrazzo , Steel plate, Aluminium alloy,Hollow sheet.
- Design Challenge
- How to create completely different visual patterns in a traditional building is the challenge. Obstacles stem from how the public's acceptance is assessed.
- Project Duration
- The project started in June 2019 and finish in August 2019 design for three month, and was construction in Dalian.
- Operation Flow
- Through reading to understand tradition and classics, let the past serve the present. The specific method is that traditional ceiling frescoes are expressed in modern language.
- Research
- After observing and studying the interior decoration of similar buildings at home and abroad, choose an easy modern way to solve it. Fully preserved the top of the original building, graffiti part of it.
- Inspiration
- Most western churches have ceiling frescoes, and this work wants to break through tradition and use anatomy as the subject of murals. Both natural and artificial things can be dissected. break the traditional form while maintaining its spirit.
- Image Credits
- #1: Photographer Xinan Chou, Whyte Woolf Fitness Club, 2019.