ZCMETAL Headquarters & Exhibition Hall by Foshan Topway Design
Channel: A As Architecture
Date: 18/03/2021

Foshan Topway Design conceived the headquarters and exhibition hall for ZCMETAL, a metal product customization company based in Foshan, China. The natural attribute of metal shows natural beauty. In traditional Chinese culture, there are Five Elements, i.e. gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which reinforce and influence each other, so it's thought that nature is the origin of the beauty of all things. However, the definition of natural beauty is very subjective. 

Through this project, we intended to create a free, refreshing space where visitors would feel like they're brought to nature and liberated from fatigue and burnout. Based on the design concept of "Naturalism", we tried to integrate environment with nature to create a people-centered and personalized space. The spatial design is inspired by fantastic natural scenes like the sun, moon, stars, ravines, cliffs, sand, stones, and flowing water, etc. The entrance is a "canyon-like" passageway, the stainless steel walls of which are manually forged and polished. 

The ground is paved with flat and reflective stainless steel to elevate the canyon, and the ceiling is installed with LED screens to simulate the sky suffused with stars or sunglow. The cliffs, ground and sky complement and enhance each other. The walls on both sides of the "canyon" meander with unconstrained curves, and the trenches on the walls are stacked layer upon layer as if they've been weathered for thousands of years. The varying light and shadows are spectacular, creating surreal scenes.

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