February 12, 2018
large pipes, spiral staircases and echoes of an industrial period accent the ideas lab, designed by shanghai-based x+living as a place to define the information age. riffing on icons of a time gone by in order to give face to a present one – that’s the idea behind the project which transforms a vintage factory and provides a space for new ideas, whilst helping to remember some old ones too.the studio was inspired in particular by the similarities between the information age of today and the steam age of the past, interested in both their subversive power and contribution to the development of world business.Find the more shanghai news from SHINE.
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x+living adjoined the two, using old factory prototypes as the basis
for their design, mapping symbols of the previous era and re-using them
within a modern framework. the space itself would eventually offer
different retail spaces including eating and drinking, and offices for
businesses.whilst inspired by factory settings, the architects cut off
the complex parts of those studied, keeping only the ones that could
correspond to a new purpose. this included large reaction tanks, energy
delivery pipes and walking platforms, all spaces that could be newly
defined as research areas, relaxation spaces or routes throughout the
lab.
the overall look sees the factory restored using a minimalist
approach, where clean and cool concrete depicts the concise and
efficient character of the space. meanwhile, desaturated reds offer a
dash of colour highlighting and drawing the eye to different areas
throughout. using the different levels, x+living has divided the factory
into commercial and educational uses, linked by their awareness of one
another. whilst the ground space uses the reaction tanks to design new
retail spaces, on the second floor, similar components have been
restored to provide shared work platforms for research and development
staff.
meanwhile energy delivery pipes have been used to conceal
elements of the building’s inner-workings, for example air conditioning
cables or utility pipelines. elsewhere these tubes define other spaces,
such as a dining area which uses the pipeline as a kind of marking in
the floor plan.
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