ACROSS CHINESE CITIES – BEIJING

Across Chinese Cities – Beijing is an investigation into the Chinese capital’s spatial program woven into its ‘otherly modern’ project which situates its traces by taking the historical district of Dashilar as a case study. The exhibition looks at processes of continuous adaptation from times present and past which remain paradigmatic for many contemporary cities like Beijing. ACC 2014 is a conversation between built forms and communities around an architecture of resilience and relationships unique to the District area.

Across Chinese Cities – China House Vision is part of the international program ‘Across Chinese Cities’ organized and promoted by Beijing Design Week. The exhibition stems from the House Vision project, a Pan-Asian platform of multidisciplinary research and development started by designer Kenya Hara for Japan in 2013.

Across Chinese Cities – China House Vision features for the first time the body of research so far produced with a team of China-based architects and experts. It addresses the changing role and habitat of architecture practice in today China by rendering manifest the contextual phenomena and research trajectories behind 14 architectural proposals.

Supported by Beijing Design Week, Beijing Tianzhu FreeTrade Zone, Beijing Airport Free Trade Zone and Slow Food China, the “CIAO – Bridge, the common border of creation” is a special project for celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sino-Euro’s formal diplomatic relations. It is curated by DONTSTOP Architettura and has been shown in Milan Malpensa Airport during the Expo 2015 in Milan. The project includes in one intalletion three artists’ works: by Katherine Xiao,Ludovica Anzaldi, Patrizia Piga and beautiful drawings made by children of Venus kindergarten.

“Four Hands” is part of an important project born in 2015 in China, promoted by the Ministry of Chinese Culture and National Base for International Cultural Trade entitled “China Design Round Up” presented for the first time in Italy during EXPO. “Four Hands” exhibition, which took place at the Spazio Otto Gallery, shows the products of four companies, among the most representative of China, considered “traditional craft models”.

The exhibition design for the opening cerimony of Beijing Design Week 2012 at the Beijing Millennium Square it develops in a linear way and includes 3 big gates that distinguish the different thematic areas passages. The main theme of the exhibition is the relationship between city and nature, represented in the graphics designed by Yellow Office.

The interior design of the Huaxia Hotel is divided in two parts: the restyling of the hotel common areas and the architectural and image renewal of the rooms aimed at optimizing the spaces and surfaces used. The new image of the hotel is the result of the union between a contemporary international style and the traditional Chinese language. The planning reflection stems from the client’s need to respond to a taste of a clientele mostly from China.

The exhibition idea develop a project of approximately 2500 square meters. The theme of the exhibition about the success of the “Made in Italy Style”. The Italy’s rich cultural heritage is explained through 7 focus on: Music – Fashion – Art – Design – Food – Cities – Lifestyle and Creativity. This keywords represent 6 areas and one common layer to link it together.

The project concerns the common parts of hotel chains’ Nuo Hotel based in Beijing. The concept design follows the research begun with the “Wine Design Bank” project and configures a semi-private space where   the customer is welcomed in an elegant space where fine wines and nice furniture fine room in a interesting exhibition on history and geography of wine. The concept design dialogues with the lines of furniture already present within the hotel, configuring a contemporary look to the lounge area.

Time and Wine Club is a space related to wine, located in the heart of Milan, it consists of four areas: exhibition, relaxation, bar and tasting.

The guiding concept of the project is the expression of three keywords that are: Time, History and Value, expressed through a dynamic interaction between architectural materials; pre-existing stones and a new layer of corten steel that enhances the stories behind the exposed bottles.

The wine collection is exhibited and narrated thanks to the use of a time line. The architecture of this private cellar summarizes its dual function: exhibition and conservation with the guests.

The Xport exhibition addresses the issue of the complex relationship between tradition and innovation in Venice and investigates the relationships between urban space and design in the paradigmatic context of the city. A large conceptual video, divided into four sections, accompanies the viewer through the exhibition, where specularly to each section of the video four thematic areas are developed that host a symbolic object: the forcola, the murano glass, the lace and the mask.