ASKO flagship experience center by STUDIO8 Architects
Channel: A As Architecture
Date: 15/01/2024

STUDIO8 Architects recently completed the design of Nordic kitchen appliance brand ASKO’s first flagship experience center in China. Located in Lujiazui Riverside Financial City next to the historic shipyard in Pudong, the building sits amongst a street of architecture with unique facades representing its own corporate image. The building facade transforms thoughts on sustainable lifestyles into spatial language. STUDIO8 delivered a simple and responsible solution for the facade design. A second facade of matte black sunshade louvers wraps the original glass facade. 

Under the sunlight, light and shadow revealed from the gaps in the aluminum louvers outline the "expressions" of the inside and outside spaces, setting a quiet but significant note on this street lined with corporate pavilions. The density of the shading louvers gradually becomes sparse from top to bottom, providing different levels of transparency and privacy for interior spaces on different floors. From the outside, the building facade looks like morning mist rising on the Nordic horizon and gradually dissipating. The "expressions" on the façade are the result of precise calculations of the building's orientation and sunlight angles at different seasons of the year. 

In summer, the shading system can reduce the energy consumption required by the exhibition hall; while in winter, it can introduce beautiful light and shadow, raising the energy efficiency inside. Its transparency also allows the interior to be vaguely visible from the street creating a gentle and lingering visual experience that echoes the “forest” concept. This design, which combines aesthetics and environmental protection, reflects the practice of sustainable lifestyle. Based on the circulation flow and the existing structural columns on the site, STUDIO8 organically arranged a "tree array" of irregular polygons with different sizes. Source by STUDIO8.

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