#Flower arch factory series#

Bee Flower sandalwood scented soap is one of the most popular classics by the Shanghai Soap Factory. The fleeting flowering period and aroma are preserved in the form of soap, conveying the transient beauty into something we can hold on to. Flowers are also used as raw materials in soaps. Image © Zhi XiaĪct 4: Dine in the Flowers - Dine with the light and shadow of petals. Save this picture! Looking through the pipe from the exhibition hall to acacia island, the lighting installation - designed by Lumia Lab - 'return', with spiral lighting twirls to one direction and beam shaped light points to another, creating an illusion of moving space and time. Additionally, the circular tubes are also key visual elements, with some of them embedded with interactive lighting devices that turn them into key transitioning spaces between the scenes. It stimulates the curiosity of the visitors who walk through the interior spaces which are connected by five steel pipes with diameters of 2.4 meters and a variety of lengths, and each space has its own distinct theme. We chose the significant procedures from the soap-making process, and named the interior spaces after them: injecting – mixing – extracting – presenting – returning – foaming. We try to express this flow in a spatial form.

#Flower arch factory series#

Turn the soap-making process into a spatial experience. The raw materials were collected from nature, after going through a series of procedures, become a bar of soap, and returned to nature after use. The soap-making process is transformed into physical spaces with public arts, displays, as well as coffee, dining in the once soap-making production space, and even taking part in the production in a laboratory. Space', a collaborative work that results from planning, architecture, landscape, interior, lighting, and exhibition design. The renovated interior space is named ' Soap. The interior design team #Supercloud Studio# focused on ‘Soap’ as the main theme of the design, introduced a narrative of soap making as the journey that visitors are going to experience, and combined new media forms to the interior space to present a chanting theme of soap making, traversing the history and the present of the soap factory and made this project a popular public space along the Yangpu Riverside. Save this picture! Sunken space of BaiQi Cafe. After the renovation, the original industrial relics were given a new look that combines retro and sci-fi that is unique and recognizable. According to previous urban planning, the original pools of the Shanghai Soap Factory were classified to be demolished, thanks to # Atelier Z+ #, the architect in charge tried their best to preserve the original structures and installed a newly landscaped roof that redefines the way how these pools are being reused. The last part consists of the hydrolysis building and the sewage purification pool. At the same time, it is connected by a floating steel plank road to achieving the changing sceneries while you walk in the project site. The design takes the original wall foundation as a clue and builds a low red brick wall to restore the historical space pattern and form a semi-open courtyard.

The west side of the project site was originally the production area and the auxiliary area. This renovation project is set on the production auxiliary area of the former Soap Factory, south-facing to the Huangpu River, with an adjacent landscape and water wharf. Founded in 1923, Shanghai Soap Factory is located on Yangshupu Road near the Huangpu River. It is one of the largest and most well-preserved industrial heritage worldwide.

Shanghai Yangpu Riverside development stretches 5.5 kilometers long from Qinhuangdao Road to Liping Road at the west of Yangpu District. Text description provided by the architects. Sustainability and Performance in Architecture The Future of Architectural Visualization