Project: Morph Design Competition
Location: Beijing, China
Year: 2015
Team: arch. Razvan Barsan, arch. Iulia Ghita
The showroom entrance merges the elements from the inside into shapes of trees which describe a forest meant for the visitor to pass through, in order to take part to an attunement process. All this stands as a tribute metaphor to the merging of east and west cultures, brought together by unique designs for handcrafted items.
The design of the small gallery’s walls takes the form of a kirigami artwork where folds can be used as exhibition shelves, as support panel for the information items or even seats for visitors when the space transforms to workshops, conferences or representations area.
This way, the interior design can be viewed as a process where everything has started with a blank paper which through folds and cuts, becomes a concrete multi-functional and flexible space with a highly visual impact.
The project design is focused on one of the most popular arts in China, which is called “paper art ” and which has been continuously evolving since paper has been discovered.
Among ceramic, painting, sculpture or textile arts, the whole interior design stands as an artwork itself due to its modern fluent shapes and thus can be considered as an extension of the 1+1 current exhibition.