OSO Studio Limited (OSL) is a Beijing based, original and creative small architect office, was founded by Zhou hao and Guo yao in 2010, operating across cultural, commercial and residential projects at diverse scales, providing our clients high quality architecture and interior design, masterplanning services.
Within the practices of more than 3 years since founded, OSL has won a number of important competitions and projects that have been built or will be completed in near future. Currently, our built, under construction and design in progress projects include large scale cultural center, educational complex, boutique hotel, wineries, resorts, office park and clubhouse in CHINA and HONG KONG.
We develop strategy for each project as unique that can helps to improve utilization and design quality, pay equal concentration to its concepts and details. Two founding partners --- Zhou hao and Guo yao --- are designers, as well as design team leaders for every project, they are executing proficient management and sharing their ingenious creativity with design teams during supervision and directly working in concept stage, program, produce, construction, completion and each link, which anything can helps promote project’s quality, at partner level in every project. As fully as possible process control of projects will ensure every segment of OSL works is optimal throughout, it is particular important factor for us, as well as for the clients we cooperated with to realize a good work together.
Practice
OSL 's works represents incisive and honest exploring of arts, design, architecture; embraces many fields from architecture, planning, products and graphics design; they have appreciable high design quality, no matter where the project sits or which manner the work displays.
Up to now, our ongoing projects include Tianyu office park at Beijing; a boutique hotel at Chengde, CHINA; a winery at Beijing and a clubhouse at Hong Kong. Under construction projects include Haidian culture center at Beijing, Chateau Xianlu winery at Beijing, a resorts at Bashang grassland. Built projects include: Beijing Union University complex --- a milestone for typologies of hi-density city campus and the contemporary education buildings, those consolidated cause of education with public life; Pu landian city archive pavilion in Dalian; Yuyang INTL’ logistics park in Tianjin and a petite gallery in Linyi, Shandong.
Philosophy
Our work are dominated by consistent design philosophy, neither functionalism nor formalism. We are exploring the changing role of contemporary architecture --- adaptability and flexibility in architecture for social, context, life styles and desires. We also develop design strategies and prototypes that drive new perspective, new projects and new path to adaptive architecture; it will release and discover potential possibilities and value of projects. We believe that architecture should become an intelligent manner to fit project to and to get interactive relationship with its context rather than an isolate expression of will or a signature work.
In our works, innovation’s objective is to build an efficient system with adaptability and flexibility that running efficiently at gathering, organizing, redistributing available resources and energies for projects, beyond the two contending polar of functionalism and formalism, it begins at straight discussing root problems, explorer the potentialities and possibilities of projects through critical observation, lead to reasonable and unexpected results with highly clear design process and can fit itself to context well.