yinjispace

INTERIOR
NOTHING DESIGN
PHOTOGRAPHY
ACT Studio
EDITOR
Gina
Collection

Located in Xitang, Jiaxing, Youwu Art Space breaks the dogma of strict and uninteresting sophistication, explores the infinite possibilities of nature through space, and conveys the visual aesthetics of natural wildness. The whole interior space is divided into five independent modules with different styles, and the designer takes the unadorned “wildness” as the clue to start the scene narrative, presenting the wildism “natural view” in different environmental contexts, and depicting the changes of materials, colors and forms. Through the changes of materials, colors and forms, the artist depicts the vast and boundless nature of Africa, or the deeper meaning of sacredness and solemnity behind its appearance.

In the space with or without art, the natural wildness that follows nature has a shocking power, transcending the limitations of geography and time dimension, becoming the skeleton and spiritual totem that constructs the space, colliding with the cold urban texture and surrealist abstract art, thus possessing a more abundant and grand expressive power, and endowing the space with the vigorous vitality of “Born of the Wild”. The space has a more abundant and grand expressive power, giving the space a vigorous vitality “born to the wild”.

With a total area of 497 square meters, the original building is a residential villa, consisting of an underground floor and three floors above ground. Based on the transformation of spatial attributes, the designer thoroughly integrates the original spatial structure, eliminates redundant functional areas and closed bedrooms, opens up the pattern, builds a flexible layout, and provides diversified spatial interactions to meet the commercial needs of filming, exhibitions, and offices.

The narrative of the scene is based on “nature and wildness”, and different styles are displayed in different spaces. A layer of “sand dunes” integrates natural wildness into the bones and blood of the space. The crisscrossed beams and pillars are century-old wood recycled from local buildings in Yunnan, and the coarse texture and folds record the traces of long years of gentle brushing. They have crossed the mountains and the sea, and are here to continue their lives in a new form.

Further inside is the scene area of the guest dining room. Here, the memories of the space manager's life in Africa are incorporated. The space uses earth tones and natural materials to simulate the imagery of African sand dunes. Furniture is also chosen in a traditional style that expresses the deep history and culture of Africa. The fireplace on the wall is made of natural stone, with only a simple surface treatment, preserving the original natural polished and weathered wild form. The sofa also adopts a square block shape, without too many fancy modifications, just a square grille on the armrest side, reserving the possibility of interacting with light and shadow, while echoing the ubiquitous geometric sequences in the details of the space.

The second floor is the bedroom level in the original building, so there are multiple separate cut-off spaces. The designer removes most of the partition walls to form two interconnected spatial scenes. There is a great contrast between the two scenarios, with “rock” made of fresh water concrete on one side and “terracotta” symbolizing the Sahara Desert in North Africa on the other; one is cold and unruly, the other is passionate and unrestrained, and thus the confrontation between ice and fire begins.

A bedroom scene is built in the concrete space, hidden behind a white curtain to ensure the purity of the space. The flowing fabric curtains understatedly add the right dose of softness and lightness to the concrete base, so that the roughness and hardness can also have a slice of romance and poetry in the middle of the roughness and hardness, and the softness and hardness can be combined together.

On the other side of the room, the 'Terracotta' area reveals a very different atmosphere, warm and colorful. The brownish-red color of the wall is inspired by the Sahara, the color of sand dunes after being baked by the sun; the golden texture in between is the dancing quicksand in the desert. The bathroom on the second floor follows the brownish-red color of the Terracotta area, and the hand-washing area is made of a combination of countertop stone and old wood, which retains the natural roughness of the texture. The black round mirror on the wall, with its chic shape, symbolizes the sun totem in African tribes.

The third level of “Pitch Black” is free from all colors and decorations, keeping only the endless blackness in the space. The space is divided into two parts: the interior and the outdoor terrace. The interior is a square space created by opening up the original master bedroom and the outdoor terrace. The interior of the space is completely covered in black, filtering out all other “impurities” and returning to an untouched state of originality that inspires unlimited potential.

Light is the only decoration in the space, and in the extreme darkness, the changes in natural light and shadow can be captured, vividly interpreting the beauty of shadows in the Oriental tradition.

MORE PHOTOS