Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2021
Chinlink Office Workplace
by Dang Ming
- A' Design Award 2021 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: HONG Designworks
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 22,232
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About Chinlink Office Workplace
Chinlink Office is an office interior located in Xi'an, China. The working areas occupy floors 18 to 20, while the boardroom areas are placed on floors 23 to 25. Geometric figures formed by dots, lines and planes create varied patterns across the space. Carpets of different styles mark and separate the functional areas. Geometric blocks divide the spatial layout and guide the paths. A spiral staircase connects the whole space. In the corridors, wall lamps replace ceiling fixtures because the floor height is limited.
Dang Ming and Li Dandi's Chinlink Office Workplace represents a distinguished contribution to contemporary corporate interior design, demonstrating how circulation infrastructure can transcend mere functional necessity to become the experiential and aesthetic heart of a workplace environment. The designers have orchestrated an ambitious spatial strategy centered upon a helical staircase that rises through a generous elliptical ceiling aperture, transforming what might conventionally serve as utilitarian vertical conveyance into a sculptural presence that commands attention and anchors the entire floor plate. The material palette reveals careful consideration of thermal and tactile qualities: warm timber elements establish visual warmth and organic reference within the otherwise restrained neutral envelope, while strategic chromatic accents in saturated reds activate the peripheral program spaces with energetic counterpoint. The treatment of the floor plane demonstrates particular compositional intelligence, with the pristine white circular disc beneath the staircase functioning as a stage or plinth that elevates the sculptural circulation element while providing clear spatial definition against the surrounding carpet zones. Natural light flooding through the clerestory glazing surrounding the oculus creates dynamic luminous conditions that shift throughout the day, ensuring the space maintains temporal vitality rather than static uniformity. The curvilinear wall treatments visible in the peripheral zones suggest an overarching formal language of organic geometry that unifies disparate program elements into a coherent experiential whole. This interior invites consideration of how contemporary workplace design increasingly recognizes that employee experience, spatial quality, and architectural ambition contribute meaningfully to organizational culture and identity. How might the choreographed journey of ascending this sculptural stair transform the daily ritual of moving between floors into a moment of spatial awareness and aesthetic pleasure?
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The geometric figures composed of dots, lines and planes transform into varying beautiful patterns. The office area spans from 18F to 20F. The design is simplistic and significant yet playful. The designers used carpets of different styles to highlight and distinguish functional areas, and provided the possibility of adding more elements. On the boardroom area from the 23F-25F, the geometric blocks are used to divide the spatial layout and guide the paths.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1. Adopt modular materials to improve construction efficiency and save cost.
2. Select standard materials and ensure the maximum of usable part, reducing waste and loss.
3. The construction process uses advanced measurement and computer recording. After that, all customized materials can be ordered so as to increase construction efficiency.
The area of project is 42050 square meter. - Tags
- office, Xi'an, colors, patterns, neat, playful, circular atrium
- Production Technology
- Materials: MILLIKEN carpet, DULUX Painting, LA CIVIDINA cloth
- Design Challenge
- 1. As the floor height is small, the huge beams span the corridors and functional spaces and the ceiling is closely paved with pipes and tubes, the floor height of ceiling is not large enough. The designers selected a comprehensive pipe arrangement to solve the problem.
2. The floor height of corridor is too small to install lighting fixtures on the ceiling. Instead, wall lamps are used to provide necessary light, which makes the space no longer oppressive. - Project Duration
- The project started in July 2018 and finished in September 2019 in Xi'an, China.
- Operation Flow
- The office area spans from 18F to 20F, and the boardroom area is located from 23F to 25F. The spiral staircase in the space connects the whole space. Geometric blocks are used to divide the spatial pattern and guide the paths. The colors fill and outline an image full of tension, conveying signals for the sensory experience, and the modern presentation of Chinese and Western style-elements enriches the level of the scene.
- Research
- The project is the Xi'an office of Chinlink. The design team combined with the positioning of Chinlink's International Center building to create a space that integrates business and finance. Colors and graphics are carried within a limited space scale, and the color becomes the narrator of space language, creating progressive nodes, and finally depicting a highly textured workspace. Moreover, it also breaks the traditional image of the office space.
- Inspiration
- The Chinlink International Center integrates business, finance and leisure and other functions into one place. The project combines the positioning of the building itself to create diversified functional scenes. The combination of colors and geometric blocks leads to the advancement of spatial texture, and the fusion and collision of Chinese and Western elements create a more inclusive scene, while the combination of function and aesthetics satisfies the needs for modernization.
- Image Credits
- photo by: TAN XIAO-STUDIO TEN