Lieu Painting Studio is located in Xi’an’s High-Tech District. Clients want to create an artistic venue within the urbanized fabric, to meet flexible functional requests of teaching, experiencing, communicating and exhibiting, etc.

▼空间概览，preview ©锐境建筑空间摄影 – 朱润资

▼轴测图，axonometric ©陌至建筑設計事務所

The studio is in the northwest corner of a high-rise office building, which provides a long period of steady north-facing light and beautiful sunset. The traditional framed core structure allows the space to be edged with massive columns, creating tension with the low space beneath the original ceiling of the aluminous gusset plate. We sought to remain and emphasise this sense of force by extracting the spatial language into three components: the column, the ceiling and the floor. We wrapped and deformed the existing columns and placed the storage function within the new non-structural columns.

▼柜体分割不同区域，cabinets divide different areas ©锐境建筑空间摄影 – 朱润资