REXON SPACE

Shaoxing, China

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REXON SPACE

Shaoxing, China

Firm

ByoArc Studio

Type

Commercial › Office Showroom Exhibition Center

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2024

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

Undisclosed

This 80-square-meter space not only undertakes the core functions of daily office work and client reception, but also shoulders the important mission of displaying the enterprise's brand image and conveying core values to the outside world, serving as a key window for REXON to connect with the outside world.

This space needs to meet dual practical needs: on the one hand, it provides a comfortable and convenient office venue for the company's local staff in Shaoxing; on the other hand, it needs to create a professional and appropriate client reception area. At the same time, as REXON's exclusive exhibition hall, it also needs to systematically present the enterprise's development story and core product advantages, display the company's main products in an orderly manner, and provide clear and detailed product interpretation for potential clients, realizing the organic integration of office, reception and exhibition functions.

The core pain point of this project lies in how to achieve the natural coexistence and non-interference of office and exhibition hall functions within the limited 80-square-meter space, while ensuring the high-quality implementation of the design scheme under the premise of extremely tight construction budget. To address this pain point, our core design strategy is: demolish all partitions and ceilings in the original space to release a transparent and open overall field; match with a movable furniture system, and flexibly restructure the spatial function boundary through the sliding and recombination of furniture, so as to efficiently solve the contradiction of multiple needs in a small space and maximize the space utilization rate.

In traditional office space design, fixed partitions often separate the interactive connection between people and space, as well as between people, limiting the flexibility of the space. For this reason, this design takes "open field" as its core concept. By demolishing all non-load-bearing walls, it completely breaks the spatial barriers and releases the original space into an unobstructed and integrated transparent area. At the same time, the entrance is adjusted to face the elevator hall directly to enhance the public attribute and accessibility of the exhibition hall; all exhibition contents are reasonably arranged in combination with the entrance flow line to build a smooth circular flow line, allowing visitors to fully understand all core information such as the overall picture of the enterprise and product details along a single flow line, thus improving the visiting experience.

After all the walls were demolished, the load-bearing column in the center of the site was completely exposed, becoming an unfavorable factor in the space design. We made the best of the situation and turned this "shortcoming" into the core focus of spatial narrative, extending the load-bearing column into a 6-meter-long rectangular exhibition platform. This exhibition platform integrates product display drawers, embedded water bar and hidden power interfaces in one, which can flexibly adapt to the use needs of various scenarios such as coffee salons, product presentations and sample displays. As the visual center of the space, the load-bearing column connected to the exhibition platform deliberately retains the original concrete texture without any redundant decoration to highlight the industrial texture; the column body is wrapped with a custom stainless steel grid system, matched with removable variable module shelves, which not only effectively eliminates the abruptness of the column body, but also endows it with strong practical functions, realizing the unity of aesthetics and practicality.

To further improve spatial flexibility, we designed a freely assemblable modular system — functions such as office, exhibition and reception socializing are no longer defined by fixed physical boundaries, and can be dynamically restructured at any time according to actual use needs. Among them, two movable wooden boxes are the core carriers for spatial function switching: the large wooden box is a tall cabinet used to display enterprise image, brand story and other exhibition contents; the small wooden box integrates a tea table and storage modules. Through the sliding and combination of the two wooden boxes, the space can be flexibly switched into three typical forms: semi-private office mode, fully open exhibition mode and mixed office and reception mode, adapting to the needs of different scenarios.

Sustainable design runs through the whole project. We minimize decoration waste and energy consumption through material reuse and modular design. In terms of material selection, we give priority to environmentally friendly and low-carbon materials such as wood panels and matte stainless steel; the exposed pipelines are painted white and integrated into the overall industrial aesthetic style, without the need for additional decorative layers such as suspended ceilings, reducing decoration consumables from the source, lowering building embodied carbon, and realizing the balance between environmental protection and aesthetics.

Under the constraints of the extremely small 80-square-meter space and limited budget, we not only created an exhibition area with rich contents and smooth flow lines, but also built a multi-functional, flexible and open office and reception field; the variable design of the space also reserves sufficient space for future function upgrading and demand adjustment, improving the long-term use value of the space.

The core of this design is to make the space get rid of the limitation of a "static finished product" and become a continuously evolving organic whole. By eliminating the fixed spatial paradigm and breaking the functional boundaries, we let the space return to its most essential mission — no longer a simple "container" carrying human activities, but a "catalyst" that stimulates interaction, adapts to needs and helps convey value.