we hope you'll share this interest and if you know even more about it, please share! our goal in the discussion threads is to have good conversation and we prefer constructive opinions. Generally speaking, if we publish something, it's because we're genuinely interested in the subject. Light and view refract dynamically among all the curved glasses contrasting this is a single giant circle which encapsulates the building’s core and serves as a unifying gesture that connects the disparate and distant elements of the program.’ ‘we found that these not only worked well to accommodate the spatial requirements but also give the corridors the ‘bouncing tennis ball’ quality that makes them so pleasurable. in this project, they study a new geometry: parabolas. Relative to their competitors - who mostly have offices that vaguely resemble coffee shops - ‘zhen fund’ has become ‘the talk of the town’, a must-see space where people come to see the offices. seeking opportunities for geometric exploration in their work, a lot of asap’s designs have explored spheres, ellipses, ovals, arches of various kinds, and bézier curves.
meanwhile, the spaces created where the rooms meet - which could have been an awkward passing moment in a hallway - take shape as a gracious pocket of space that also lends itself to informal yet private side conversations. These forms break the monotony of a long double-loaded corridor and add an immediately bold and visionary quality to the design, deriving from the shapes and the ever-changing reflections and refractions they created. The curved glass conference rooms became the signature of this project, as this accomplishes several points. further, very free-form designs were not an option, because the program was fairly tight relative to the available space. the difficulty was to avoid interminable and dull corridors and to create a space to foster a sense of optimism and ambition. the individual spaces seem to float, merging and separating, appearing and receding a feeling like ‘being on a cloud’.Īll images courtesy of jonathan leijonhufvudĬurved glass conference rooms are the zhen fund’s signatureĪsap (see more here) had to challenge the given U-shaped space, the requested number of various-sized conference rooms, and the ‘XL’ room with seating up to 100 people. light and view refract dynamically among all the curved glasses, while bold-colored curtains add a layer of privacy and improve acoustics. instead of shaping a banal double-loaded corridor, the architects chose to form a series of glazed ‘bubbles’ with a plan derived from parabolas so that the contours of the space are constantly changing as the employees move through it. Asap undertook the design of a firm in beijing, ‘zhen fund’, creating a fairly typical office fit-out (as it was asked) adding joyful and dynamic touches that reflect the company’s character.
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