Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2021
Neighbors Science City LN Residence Apartment
by Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Junjie Li
- A' Design Award 2021 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Guangzhou Vantree Architecture Decoration Design Co.,LTD
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About Neighbors Science City LN Residence Apartment
Neighbors Science City LN Residence is a serviced apartment interior located in a science park in Guangzhou, China. The residence offers units of one, two or three rooms with a living room, ranging from 64 to 140 square meters. Square boxes are used as a design element to reshape the urban neighborhood relationship and to create shared spaces. The same idea continues through the lobby bar, restaurant, gym and multifunction meeting room. New terrazzo is applied for its seamless finish and free color matching. The design aims to offer a warm and social setting for young residents.
Muchuan Xu's Neighbors Science City LN Residence Apartment represents a distinguished contribution to contemporary residential interior design, demonstrating sophisticated command of spatial orchestration, material selection, and atmospheric calibration that exemplifies thoughtful approaches to communal living environments. The design engages with traditions of hospitality architecture while introducing residential warmth through carefully considered material choices, most notably the bronze-toned architectural cladding that establishes visual gravitas while maintaining approachable scale through its articulated volumes and illuminated apertures. The compositional strategy employs bold geometric massing to define programmatic territories within the open atrium, creating distinct zones for arrival, gathering, and intimate conversation without relying on physical barriers. Particularly noteworthy is the integration of the whimsical blue sculptural figure, which serves multiple functions: establishing human scale against the monumental architecture, introducing accessible playfulness that counterbalances formal sophistication, and providing memorable wayfinding identity. The lighting design demonstrates exceptional sensitivity, layering recessed downlights, concealed cove illumination, and accent fixtures to create atmospheric depth while ensuring functional visibility throughout. The material palette exhibits refined restraint, with warm neutral tones predominating while metallic copper accents and the singular chromatic intervention of the sculpture prevent monotony. The flooring treatment creates elegant zonal definition through geometric patterning in complementary stone finishes. This work invites contemplation of how residential common spaces might balance the competing demands of institutional durability and domestic comfort, public representation and private refuge, sophisticated aesthetics and welcoming accessibility—questions that remain central to contemporary design discourse regarding collective dwelling environments.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- LN Residence is a high-end serviced apartment brand of LN (Lingnan) Holdings. It is located in Guangzhou modern science park, Guangdong Province, China, where is the central area of the development strategy in the east of Guangzhou and the demonstration base for the development of high-tech industries. The Residence inherits Lingnan's hospitality, it has not only the warm living of cutting-edge fashion, but also the star quality service of LN Hospitality. There are one room and one living room, two rooms and one living room, three rooms and one living room in the residence, 64-140㎡ in every room, and perfect functional zoning, rational use of every inch of space.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Design comes from life and needs. Meeting the most basic needs of the project, the space layout should flexibly consider the complexity of the actual use of space. In order to be more in line with the concept of neighborhood of LN Residence project, more functional elements of interaction and sharing are enriched with the spatial layout to give consumers more different experience.
- Tags
- shared space, neighborhood, young and new
- Production Technology
- In the design of suitable material, according to the project positioning at first, LN Residence is the Youth Apartment Hotel of LN Hospitality. Facing more young guests, thus it needs more young and new elements in material, combined with a warm atmosphere. The new terrazzo is the first choice in recent years, which has the advantage of cost, seamless mark, arbitrary color matching and beautiful.
- Design Challenge
- Because there are one room one living room, two rooms one living room, three rooms one living room and 64-140 square meters of them in the residence rooms, designers need to create a shared space with warm, quality and fun, to make rational use of every inch of space, complete the perfect functional zoning, reshape the urban neighborhood relationship, and meet the needs of different business or long-term living groups.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2020 and finished in January 2021 in Guangzhou Science City, Guangdong Province, China, where is the central area of the development strategy in the east of Guangzhou and the demonstration base for the development of high-tech industries.
- Operation Flow
- Extracting square boxes as design elements to reshape the urban neighborhood relationship and create neighborhood shared space, using modern modeling and new material collocation, combined with local cultural characteristics, throughout the lobby bar, restaurant, shared space, gym and multi-function meeting room and other public space. It’s not only to meet the needs of different business or long-term living groups, but also aims to create a shared space with warm, quality and fun, and bring a more soft and sweet life style for the busy urbanites.
- Research
- Design comes from life and needs. The designer focuses on the combination with local cultural characteristics, which comes from the urban appearance of Guangzhou's inspiration.
- Inspiration
- The design focuses on the combination with local cultural characteristics, which comes from the urban appearance of Guangzhou's inspiration. Extracting square boxes as design elements to reshape the urban neighborhood relationship and create neighborhood shared space, using modern modeling and new material collocation, combined with local cultural characteristics, throughout the lobby bar, restaurant, shared space, gym and multi-function meeting room and other public space.
- Image Credits
- Copyrights belong to Vantree Design, 2021.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Vantree Design, 2021.
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