Four Seasons . Taida
Extending the humanities and orient of design concept from architecture into interior design.
House in Sai Kung
Peacefully nestled in the plentiful and verdant hills of Sai Kung, known to city dwellers as the “Back Garden of Hong Kong”, this 4550sqft house is completely remodeled to create a spacious, stylish and tranquil living space for its owners.
ZCB Bamboo Pavilion
The ‘ZCB Bamboo Pavilion’ is a public event space built for the Construction Industry Council (CIC)’s Zero Carbon Building (ZCB) in the summer of 2015 in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong.
TUVE
We differentiate this boutique hotel by “refinement” – beauty that goes beyond the surface. Here we use relatively common materials, enhance their natural beauty and unleash design possibilities by surface treatment techniques and lighting.
SILVER ROOM
Mom cooks uniquely flavoured family dishes from basic ingredients with her special cooking techniques and recipes. For this restaurant, we try to create a distinctive “flavour” with the most common “ingredients” – plastic, steel and wood, and we cook with light and shadow. Under natural daylight and night time illumination, the restaurant looks like a minimal translucent box during daytime, and becomes theatrical with the interlacing shadows of the steel tree sculptures in the evening. Two different atmospheres are created with the same material combination, hence offering two different “flavours” to suit the menus for lunch and dinner.
Hong Kong Plaza
The project integrated different design elements like, the streamlining, grey glass partitions and the color used which successfully created a dynamic design office with minimalistic and scientific atmosphere which match with the client’s business and his team. Ninety-degree angles are avoided in an attempt to produce a dynamic, perceptually larger environment. Also, the open sea-view along with the L-shaped work desk help to make the office feels like locating in an uninhabited island which is peaceful and timeless.
Air Craft · Rendezvous
“Air-craft: Rendezvous” is an art window display that LAAB designed for Hermès at TaipeiTaoyuan Airport. Upstaging the beautiful scene from Jimmy Liao’s “Turn Left, Turn Right”, we break the convention that uses mannequins to display clothings. Instead, we used digital fabrication technique to create aerodynamic curves to portray body figures, and together with Hermès products, produced the scenes where the protagonists turn left and right with luggage in hands, and reunite at the “Air-craft”.
ifva Media Art Exhibition – Hard Cinema
To echo with this year exhibition’s theme “Hard Cinema”, we converted the exhibition spaces which aimed at discovering the alternative dimensions in cinema in terms of physicality, materiality and spatiality. Bringing the visitors an immersive experience traversing into and through the internal mechanics of a filming device along the exhibition space.
EXPLODED CINEMA
Upon entering the cinema, audiences’ eyes would meet with the various-shaped and three dimensional boxes. Black and white engulfs the perimeter, conveying a hint of futuristic and muti－dimensional feeling appears in science fiction movies. Rectangular-shaped concessions and kiosk inclined with assorted angles, camouflaging themselves in the furturistic background, which triggers the association of meteors in space or the second element of psychedelic space.
STOP MOTION CAFÉ
The coffee bar located inside a cinema with a theme of ‘stop motion’. Every film composes of thousands of stop motions. This continuation of frames produces the illusion of a moving image, freeing our minds to see what is within and beyond. The designers freeze and extract these ‘motion fragments’, embedding the elements within the cinema perimeter.