OneSmart International Education
Headquarters for Kimber Hawson Design Consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
This project solves the space shortage of the old building by using large-scale art installations, with a strong sense of visual extension, making the space more integrated, brighter and more expansive. The design elements incorporate traditional Chinese "FengShui" culture, combined with international space design concepts, to combine traditional culture with modern space design, presenting a different modern space and ancient culture blend of new design style. The designer also took into account the rationality of the space layout and adhered to the 5R principle of sustainable design.
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Unique Properties
OneSmart International Education, one of the leading Chinese education brands listed on the NYSE, has many branch product lines and brand divisions. The new headquarters, located in an 11-floor old building of the last century in Putuo District, Shanghai, has a total floor area of 12000 square meters. It is able to meet the needs of daily office work, meetings and all kinds of public benefit education activities.
Tags
Education, Technology, Office, Bright, Comfortable
Production Technology
The building entrance area is narrow and separated by the original structural columns into trivial and irregular small spaces. In the light of these defects, the designers splice planks into arc-shaped large space art devices throughout the building, which give the building space a sense of continuity and visual extension, weakening the volume of the original structural columns and maximizing the visual expansion of the sense of space.
Design Challenge
The new headquarters is located in a century-old building in Putuo District, Shanghai. Due to the original building structure and site conditions, the entrance area of the new headquarters only has less than 400 square meters of space, and the interior is scattered with 9 structural columns, cut into smaller, more trivial and irregular spaces.
Project Duration
The project started in December 2019 in Shanghai and finished in May 2020 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow
The overall architectural space adopts the dynamic blue and white tone, supplemented by the warm wood color to create an open, bright and comfortable office and educational environment. The staircase connecting the first floor and the second floor reception area takes the spiral shape, which reduces the visual tightness of the whole space and creates a comfortable and warm welcoming atmosphere.
Research
In order to avoid the sense of visual intimidation upon entering the building, and to be more in line with the spatial design of the new headquarters, the design uses a large spatial installation with a sense of continuity and visual extension to make the columns look smaller and to maximize the sense of space.
Inspiration
The design is based on the traditional Chinese cultural elements, and the reproduction of the design language from the formal language to highlight the national style of the theme. In this design, we take "yearly higher", "auspicious clouds and dragon", "high mountains and flowing water" and "neatly stacked" as the design theme, extracting the elements, combining with the space and complementing each other.
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020. Image #2: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020. Image #3: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020. Image #4: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020. Image #5: Photographer Tony Li, OneSmart, 2020.
Project Overview
OneSmart International Education Headquarters has been a Silver winner in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design award category in the year 2020 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
Silver Recognition
Benny Ren was recognized with the coveted Silver A' Design Award in 2021, a testament to excellence of their work OneSmart International Education Headquarters.
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