丨中国广州丨Unknown design

Architects:Unknown design

Area:95m²

Year:2025

Photographs:Xianspace

Category:Retail Interiors

Design Team:MK, Zhu, Danman

Contractor:Hangzhou Yuxin Decoration Design Co., Ltd.

City:Guangzhou

Country:China

Text description provided by the architects. This space no longer pursues the neatness and newness of the surface, but accepts the traces of time. The bareness, coarseness, and even a slight "dilapidation" are no longer regarded as defects, but become the most powerful expression of texture. It presents a kind of "unfinished" state, which is not repairing or decorating, but restoring the materials to their original form and letting them tell their own stories quietly.

Wooden piles are stout and simple, as if growing naturally from the land, and are the skeleton of the whole space. The unmodified cracks and annual rings clearly record the time scale. The roof is extended into a slanting surface, allowing the air to circulate in it, and the sunlight pours in through the gaps between the beams, casting mottled light and shadow, which is a soft and flowing sense of time.

The combination of materials is a dialog between nature and industry. Rough-cut stone and unpolished wood are naturally juxtaposed, and old objects are reshaped to form a flexible props system, which fulfills the function of the space and at the same time perpetuates the language of "growth". The space is not defined, but leaves room for change and extension, like the land, always welcoming new possibilities.

The fabrics are gently placed between the wooden frame and the stones, as if they have just been harvested from the field. They are not intentionally displayed, but naturally "live" there. The props system does not emphasize their presence, but rather supports them quietly as a backdrop for the fabrics to fall to the ground.

In the end, all this returns to silence. The materials are in their places, the structure is not disguised, the space is not noisy and not performing, only presenting the temperature of the years and the echoes of the terroir with the most authentic gesture. Things return to their original places, no sound is heard - this is the barn, and this is also the land, giving the fabric the most gentle home.

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