This project is located in Found 158 on Julu Road, one of the most concentrated areas of bars in Shanghai. The sunken plaza is a collection of nightclubs, bars and restaurants with a variety of music genres, which are often overcrowded on weekends.Featuring hip-hop, Long Bar stands out from most nightclubs focusing on electronic music. The owner has been deeply engaged in street culture for years and is determined to create hip-hop culture with Chinese characteristics. In response to non-pretentious and authentic attitude of hip-hop culture, we abandoned the refined and elegant idea in space design at the very beginning, hoping to present direct and authentic characteristics in both space construction and material selection.

▼项目概览，preview ©曾周木野

Located in the heart of Shanghai, Found 158 is a bustling collection of bars across the street from a cluster of historic alleys. The strong contrast is part of the region’s wonderful attraction. Walking through the alleys opposite Found 158, you can see the narrow skylines outlined by the narrow lanes, wires and cables hanging across the walls, arrays of electricity meter boxes, jagged air conditioners on the windows. There are beautiful sceneries of street culture everywhere. We collaborated with the artist Yulong Huang on this project. For a long time, he has been fascinated by street culture and is known for his sculptures featuring hip-hop figures. We decided to take “street” as the main design concept and put a section of street in a semi-underground space of less than 200 square meters, thus creating a reversal of the indoor and outdoor spaces.