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East side of the art center © eric[/caption]
Seashore square front © eric[/caption]
The core of simplicity, I dream of it.
The spirit of purity, I keep seeking it.
The ultimate delicacy, I keep thinking of it.
The real beauty, I keep longing for it.
Happy research, I shall never give it up.
Top integrity, I live for it.
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Side stair of the main entrance © eric[/caption]
The Ode to Simplicity by Yue Ya Shan Ren seeks the path to purity and tranquility. Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center is just a shelter in town from complexity and into beauty. The building highlights openness and connectivity, so that people, space, and nature can have quiet dialogues. The lighting coincides with them to hide among buildings and landscapes to give off soundless beauty.
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Main entrance © Shu He[/caption]
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Main entrance © Shu He[/caption]
GD (GD-LIGHTING DESIGN) practices simplicity all through to have all the lighting hidden among spatial levels, interfaces, and constructs, creating an effect of the landscape changing with every step among mountains and waters. Except for the part of the floor-lamps for guiding, the overall façade lighting emphasizes artistic conception instead of depiction and outlining, echoing with the architectural style of plainness and low profile. The three huge window-style shapes facing mountain, sea, and the city only have their bottoms lightly decorated by light to leave appropriate space for the artistic conception.
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Seashore square east © eric[/caption]
A large area of white wall and glasses fills in the space to maximize the natural light and the sense of transparency, and people's sight will easily interact with surrounding landscapes at the sea and the green mountains. However, it's a great challenge for the technical level of lighting, so that lighting design must give off top neatness by ultimate simplicity and accurate light matching and control technologies. Except for some parts to meet the flexible demand for exhibition in the future, all the lighting devices on the ceiling that can be abandoned have been wiped off to become the smallest possible number of downlights hidden in the groove. The public passageway and the transitional space also tries to avoid any visual interference by the highest level of restrained lighting to present the visual surprise and impact of the exhibits themselves.
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Entrance of the small exhibition hall © Shu He[/caption]
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Entrance of the art gallery on 1F ©Shu He[/caption]
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Cultural square © Shu He[/caption]
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Cultural square small exhibition © Shu He[/caption]
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Main exhibition hall © Zhang Chao[/caption]
The space façade has special materials and texture change embedded, including glasses, red façade, and black façade to create balanced yet interlaced rhythm and impression. The team of GD believes it's part of the space, without deliberately stressing shaping but catering to lighting practices to create an effect of light and shadow by means of the textures of the light-reflecting materials. In order to meet up with the demand for temporary exhibition in a large-size space, we specially designed remote-control lamps and lanterns for the project to make point arrangement by accurate analog computation. As for details, the seemingly even and unified technique of illuminating line grooves, in fact, lights up space entrances to stress the guidance of the entrances.
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Exhibited works in main exhibition hall © Zhang Chao[/caption]
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Exhibited works in main exhibtion hall © Zhang Chao[/caption]
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Exhibited works in main exhibition hall © Zhang Chao[/caption]
Following humanized measure and the philosophy of being hidden in nature, Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center is presented to the world by an overall stance of harmonized order. The team of GD, by strict yet restrained lighting techniques, endows the culture landmark building with linear echoing inside and outside to acquire the biggest visual surprise by the ultimate restraint of lighting.
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Seashore square © Zhang Chao[/caption]
East side of the art center © eric[/caption]
SHEKOU SEA WORLD CULTURE AND ARTS CENTER | MAKI ASSOCIATES, GD-LIGHTING DESIGN, LIGHTDESIGN INC.
Shekou, Shenzhen, China Moderate simplicity and unparallel beauty. Description provided by GD-Lighting Design [caption id="attachment_7719" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Seashore square front © eric[/caption]
The core of simplicity, I dream of it.
The spirit of purity, I keep seeking it.
The ultimate delicacy, I keep thinking of it.
The real beauty, I keep longing for it.
Happy research, I shall never give it up.
Top integrity, I live for it.
[caption id="attachment_7721" align="alignnone" width="2000"] Side stair of the main entrance © eric[/caption]
The Ode to Simplicity by Yue Ya Shan Ren seeks the path to purity and tranquility. Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center is just a shelter in town from complexity and into beauty. The building highlights openness and connectivity, so that people, space, and nature can have quiet dialogues. The lighting coincides with them to hide among buildings and landscapes to give off soundless beauty.
[caption id="attachment_7715" align="alignnone" width="1400"] Main entrance © Shu He[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_7714" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Main entrance © Shu He[/caption]
GD (GD-LIGHTING DESIGN) practices simplicity all through to have all the lighting hidden among spatial levels, interfaces, and constructs, creating an effect of the landscape changing with every step among mountains and waters. Except for the part of the floor-lamps for guiding, the overall façade lighting emphasizes artistic conception instead of depiction and outlining, echoing with the architectural style of plainness and low profile. The three huge window-style shapes facing mountain, sea, and the city only have their bottoms lightly decorated by light to leave appropriate space for the artistic conception.
[caption id="attachment_7718" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Seashore square east © eric[/caption]
A large area of white wall and glasses fills in the space to maximize the natural light and the sense of transparency, and people's sight will easily interact with surrounding landscapes at the sea and the green mountains. However, it's a great challenge for the technical level of lighting, so that lighting design must give off top neatness by ultimate simplicity and accurate light matching and control technologies. Except for some parts to meet the flexible demand for exhibition in the future, all the lighting devices on the ceiling that can be abandoned have been wiped off to become the smallest possible number of downlights hidden in the groove. The public passageway and the transitional space also tries to avoid any visual interference by the highest level of restrained lighting to present the visual surprise and impact of the exhibits themselves.
[caption id="attachment_7710" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Entrance of the small exhibition hall © Shu He[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_7709" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Entrance of the art gallery on 1F ©Shu He[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_7705" align="alignnone" width="1800"] Cultural square © Shu He[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_7704" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Cultural square small exhibition © Shu He[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_7717" align="alignnone" width="1800"] Main exhibition hall © Zhang Chao[/caption]
The space façade has special materials and texture change embedded, including glasses, red façade, and black façade to create balanced yet interlaced rhythm and impression. The team of GD believes it's part of the space, without deliberately stressing shaping but catering to lighting practices to create an effect of light and shadow by means of the textures of the light-reflecting materials. In order to meet up with the demand for temporary exhibition in a large-size space, we specially designed remote-control lamps and lanterns for the project to make point arrangement by accurate analog computation. As for details, the seemingly even and unified technique of illuminating line grooves, in fact, lights up space entrances to stress the guidance of the entrances.
[caption id="attachment_7713" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Exhibited works in main exhibition hall © Zhang Chao[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_7712" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Exhibited works in main exhibtion hall © Zhang Chao[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_7711" align="alignnone" width="1600"] Exhibited works in main exhibition hall © Zhang Chao[/caption]
Following humanized measure and the philosophy of being hidden in nature, Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center is presented to the world by an overall stance of harmonized order. The team of GD, by strict yet restrained lighting techniques, endows the culture landmark building with linear echoing inside and outside to acquire the biggest visual surprise by the ultimate restraint of lighting.
[caption id="attachment_7720" align="alignnone" width="1067"] Seashore square © Zhang Chao[/caption]
