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Flow Space Aranya
Flow Space Aranya
Beijing, China
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Flow Space Aranya
Beijing, China
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
Super Rice Architects has designed a new mountain meditation space for the meditation brand FLOW. The space is located 150 kilometers from Beijing and is part of the Anaya-Wuling Mountain project.
The new FLOW Space is located in a valley between two peaks in the Wuling Mountains. The path leading to it winds through a quiet and mysterious setting. Although there is no vast ocean, the environment is peaceful, with dense forests and gurgling streams. In Eastern culture, landscapes are considered the source of sensory experience and reflections of one's inner world. Therefore, architectural space serves as a medium for integrating nature and humanity, enabling visitors to better understand and care for themselves and experience emotional resonance and spiritual happiness.
The space incorporates natural colors like rammed earth, gray plaster, travertine, natural wood, and shoji paper. These colors match the original tones, allowing the architectural space to blend in with nature. The materials used enhance the sensory experience of practitioners, making them more sensitive to the warmth of the wooden floor underfoot and the rhythm of light and shadow on the walls. Using rammed earth as a wall material brings a sense of heaviness and dignity to the design as if being in a series of different types and scales of caves. The interplay of light and shadow, the openness and closure of space, and the linear arrangement of space elements help practitioners restore their physical and mental strength.
This project integrates fitness and meditation into a residential and hotel program at Anaya Wuling Mountain development. The overall space is divided into four areas: reception and display space, dressing room, meditation spaces, and gym.
The display area serves as reception and retail, with a central component for displaying goods. Staggered exhibition stands encircle the central component, doubling as a reception desk. This design resolves any obstruction caused by the column located in the space's center while providing flexible display and rest functionality.
Super Rice Architects and FLOW aimed to challenge traditional retail display methods and create a gallery-like exhibition style. Using the "carving technique," display components are sculpted out of the wall to create an exclusive 3D space, evoking the feeling of appreciating artwork in a gallery. At one end of the stone stool, guests can rest while enjoying a pure sensory experience.
A small meditation space is on the east side of the display area, secluded behind a shoji paper screen. It is designed for private and VIP meditation courses. The space has a trapezoidal geometric form that tapers from bottom to top, creating a feeling of gathering and envelopment that helps practitioners find inner strength. The windows have been lowered to create a peaceful environment, and shoji paper screens are used as partitions to block outdoor distractions. The trapezoidal design of the ceiling conceals the artificial lighting and HVAC equipment, creating a serene and coordinated ambiance.
Upon entering the large meditation room, one immediately feels a sense of peace and tranquility. The room is designed with seclusion and isolation in mind, providing a quiet and calming environment for meditation. Natural and artificial lighting are perfectly balanced to create a pure space for reflection. The unique double-triangle structure of the room creates a poetic and practical space. The sloping, triangle-shaped ceiling eliminates visual obstacles caused by beams. The continuously folded roof adds rhythm and echoes the distant mountain ridge. The undulating roof shapes the interior space and creates constantly fluctuating states under different "forces," with added emphasis from the lighting.
A fitness area is located on the southern side of the display area. Glass partitions separate it to maintain visual openness and allow ample outdoor light. The rammed earth wall and natural wood-colored ceiling material extend into the fitness room, enhancing the visual experience. The fitness area has an independent entrance that connects to the external landscape, providing complete contact with nature and promoting strength for both the body and mind.
At the new FLOW Space, the architecture serves as an extension of the sensory experience. Visitors can immerse themselves in nature and a relatively primitive state of survival. The physical senses gradually amplify, creating a more intense and profound experience. Participants can achieve spiritual enjoyment and healing of the body and mind.
The new FLOW Space is located in a valley between two peaks in the Wuling Mountains. The path leading to it winds through a quiet and mysterious setting. Although there is no vast ocean, the environment is peaceful, with dense forests and gurgling streams. In Eastern culture, landscapes are considered the source of sensory experience and reflections of one's inner world. Therefore, architectural space serves as a medium for integrating nature and humanity, enabling visitors to better understand and care for themselves and experience emotional resonance and spiritual happiness.
The space incorporates natural colors like rammed earth, gray plaster, travertine, natural wood, and shoji paper. These colors match the original tones, allowing the architectural space to blend in with nature. The materials used enhance the sensory experience of practitioners, making them more sensitive to the warmth of the wooden floor underfoot and the rhythm of light and shadow on the walls. Using rammed earth as a wall material brings a sense of heaviness and dignity to the design as if being in a series of different types and scales of caves. The interplay of light and shadow, the openness and closure of space, and the linear arrangement of space elements help practitioners restore their physical and mental strength.
This project integrates fitness and meditation into a residential and hotel program at Anaya Wuling Mountain development. The overall space is divided into four areas: reception and display space, dressing room, meditation spaces, and gym.
The display area serves as reception and retail, with a central component for displaying goods. Staggered exhibition stands encircle the central component, doubling as a reception desk. This design resolves any obstruction caused by the column located in the space's center while providing flexible display and rest functionality.
Super Rice Architects and FLOW aimed to challenge traditional retail display methods and create a gallery-like exhibition style. Using the "carving technique," display components are sculpted out of the wall to create an exclusive 3D space, evoking the feeling of appreciating artwork in a gallery. At one end of the stone stool, guests can rest while enjoying a pure sensory experience.
A small meditation space is on the east side of the display area, secluded behind a shoji paper screen. It is designed for private and VIP meditation courses. The space has a trapezoidal geometric form that tapers from bottom to top, creating a feeling of gathering and envelopment that helps practitioners find inner strength. The windows have been lowered to create a peaceful environment, and shoji paper screens are used as partitions to block outdoor distractions. The trapezoidal design of the ceiling conceals the artificial lighting and HVAC equipment, creating a serene and coordinated ambiance.
Upon entering the large meditation room, one immediately feels a sense of peace and tranquility. The room is designed with seclusion and isolation in mind, providing a quiet and calming environment for meditation. Natural and artificial lighting are perfectly balanced to create a pure space for reflection. The unique double-triangle structure of the room creates a poetic and practical space. The sloping, triangle-shaped ceiling eliminates visual obstacles caused by beams. The continuously folded roof adds rhythm and echoes the distant mountain ridge. The undulating roof shapes the interior space and creates constantly fluctuating states under different "forces," with added emphasis from the lighting.
A fitness area is located on the southern side of the display area. Glass partitions separate it to maintain visual openness and allow ample outdoor light. The rammed earth wall and natural wood-colored ceiling material extend into the fitness room, enhancing the visual experience. The fitness area has an independent entrance that connects to the external landscape, providing complete contact with nature and promoting strength for both the body and mind.
At the new FLOW Space, the architecture serves as an extension of the sensory experience. Visitors can immerse themselves in nature and a relatively primitive state of survival. The physical senses gradually amplify, creating a more intense and profound experience. Participants can achieve spiritual enjoyment and healing of the body and mind.
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