Mountain and City Sales Office in Chongqing
Ajax Law Ling Kit and Virginia Lung

Mountain and City Sales Office in Chongqing

One Plus Partnership Limited as Interior Architects

Gazing across the Chang Jiang River from urban Chongqing, here come the celebrated scenery district of Nanshan. The green is weaving into the mountains here, with the meandering river, they are all embracing the hilly Chongqing City with their beauty. The sales office of Mountain and City is just located at the picturesque Nanshan district, which the view has inspired the designers for their idea of the interior. Just as the geographical character of Nanshan, the landscape inside the sale office is assembled with mountains and valleys as well. The walls and rooms are conglomeration of triangular planes and oblique line sets, in different tones of gray, the outcome is a powerful and dynamic topographic chart. No matter where they place themselves, visitors could feel the embrace by hills exactly like the city itself. While standing on the marble floor that plays a role as the valleys in Nanshan, the energetic ambience of the mountains would stun into visitors retinas in the meantime. Whereas, the same geometric of the walls has extended to the grand marble floor, the irregular triangular patterns with various kinds of marble have been well arranged in the same manner. Together, both the vertical and horizontal planes have visualized the mountainous beauty scenes of Chongqing.


Moreover, even the array of brown stainless steel counters each has an individual form; yet they are in placed in faultless range. They can be seen as a series of monstrous rocks, as well as they can be described as the crystallized form of the cultural spirit of Nanshan. Meanwhile, the eye-catching counters act as the focus points in the grayscale surroundings.


Walking toward the midst of the mountains, a cave appears beneath the cliff ahead, which is the passage to the other floor level. In order not to arouse puzzle feeling among visitors, thus there is a long strip of light laminating along the tunnel. The light transfers the geometric style to the other bit of the interior while easing the dullness in the dark.


Thanks to the extra high ceiling of the building, there is adequate vertical space for the numerous strings of LED chandeliers to offer the dreamy mood of rainy Great Southeast. The softness that presents by the rain also forms a contrast with the strong and bulky atmosphere of the “hilly” theme of the entire interior, which is also kind of buffer to visitors’ eyes. Take a glance upon the “sky”, not only rain, the space also presents visitors a trip to the galaxy; through the celestial shower that shines above with programmed pattern, people’s mind could be relaxed and rinsed as well. Within the sky and the ground, among the mountains and the valleys, every little thing within are portraying the spiritual and robust sight of mountainous Chongqing city.

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