Western Club District in Wanki Hangzhou by We Design

Project: Sales Center of the Western Club District in Wanki Hangzhou
Architects: We Design
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Area: 11,517 sq ft
Photography: Yan Ming Studio

Western Club District by We Design

The Liangzhu Civilization, beginning in the Neolithic era, flourished and left a legend worthy of admiration and study. Chinese civilization has imprinted its legacy on this land: folk culture, art, and nature grow here, forming an endless local heritage. This is absolute freedom while freely wandering through landscapes.

The Western Club District is a model interpretation of nature and life within the Liangzhu civilization landscape, developing its thousand-year cultural heritage. We Design, harnessing spiritual force through art, acted as an artistic consultant for the Western Club District in this case, using professional furniture aesthetics and advanced deconstruction techniques to elevate artistic creativity.

Understanding of the Liangzhu civilization comes from historical memories and modern life. The lifestyle paradigm Simon wants to create is based on collective memory and inseparable from the contemporary picture where people can freely move between art and life. From 'Unity of Heaven and Humanity' in Liangzhu civilization to Zhuangzi's thinking, Simon translates 'world' into the spirit of space, allowing people to live at home with sincere joyful feelings. Ultimately, 'world' is a state of spiritual and physical freedom, and we hope to use art as a measure to demonstrate the desire for life combining reality and imagination resonating with the heart.

The sculpture looks like waves from a distance, but upon closer inspection resembles fish or bird... The designer uses art to highlight and re-interpret natural objects, adding a spiritual element to symbolism, giving the object broad character and vitality. Surrounded by wild movements of nature, the work is balanced in motion and stillness.

Freedom is not only individual liberty but also inclusiveness. Freedom is not just personal freedom, but also the inclusion of all things. In the reception area, guests are greeted with courtesy, and the spirit of freedom becomes tangible as they feel how the landscape surrounds them. The art of freedom leads to modern East nature — and inhabitants can freely discover what they like.

"The blend of tradition and fashion, fun and civilization makes the space alive, innovative, and interesting." Reflecting on how Zhuangzi's thoughts relate to space, We Design presents the 'Hipster Banquet', a collaborative creation by artist Digiway and Rong Baojie Studio.

A free and joyful feast in the picture becomes an artistic project for this place. A surreal banquet that transcends geographic boundaries of space and opens the area of 'Maximum Happiness' between the meeting zone and the tea and wine bar.

Exciting life in Hangzhou is often accompanied by tea and wine. Tea and wine symbolize modesty and boldness, exiting the world and entering it. Simon, as an artistic consultant, focuses on the emotional connection between space and people, allowing deeper understanding of things and pure pleasure.

This place values the experience of 'coming for pleasure and returning for pleasure'. An integrated entertainment space, a tea and wine bar — relaxed, elegant, and trendy, where guests can enjoy the beauty of Min River Lake, having fun with music, sips of wine and tea.

Thus, a blend of retro and futurism arises here, where history unfolds from picturesque landscapes into the modern world. People feel comfortable immersing themselves in a hedonistic mixture of art, food, and nature.

The news calligraphic image 'Happiness' responds to the scene with a living gesture and majestic form. Rich symbolism and openness match the atmosphere, celebrating simplicity with modern design language.

When guests enter VIP rooms and audio-visual halls, experiencing the creative expression 'Autumn Floods,' they are in a state of mind called 'Joy of Fish.' The dialogue between Bai Hai Zhuo and Hebei returns to fundamentals, while artistic consultant Simon draws ideas from fables to test the possibility of relative art and absolute life. With a vision of changing worlds, one can feel the collision of macro and micro in Simon's expression, taste water from the autumn stream.

'Feathers' use modern methods to express structures associated with traditional art. Portrait images reveal the spirit of abstraction, where Eastern cultural connotations and Western techniques merge.

On the lower floor, the theme 'Discussion of Equality of Things,' and with soft music and sandalwood fragrance, people can feel the vastness of life in a comfortable and relaxed form, as if 'Unity of Heaven and Humanity'.

Art is at the center of vision and thought, and Simon created an engaging gallery space through paintings and sculptures by artists. The source of life in artistic creation is visible in the paintings, with illusory 'Feathers' and archaic 'Message of Happiness', complementing each other in the space where guests relax and rest.

Reality and absurdity do not contradict each other. 'I don't distinguish reality from imagination, past from present, East from West, art from daily life. All history and art come from everyday life.'

Whether subject or guest, inside or outside, ancient or modern. For Simon, art freely dialogues with tradition and trends, in the interplay of material and immaterial progress, past and future, reaching beyond the world of fun.

Olfactory meaning leads guests through the feast, immersing them in a hedonistic indulgence of art, food, and music, where spiritual and spatial connections are redefined beyond senses and metaphysics.

Amidst natural beauty, companions sip tea and discuss past and present — this is a feast of meetings. Simon creates dialogue between people, cuisine, culture, and space, not just taste on the tongue but also a presentation of life aesthetics — free and unrestrained like Zhuangzi's dream of the butterfly.

In the Western Club District, art is a means of spiritual life; one can see hope through its surface and within. As We Design gives space freedom for art, the history of the scene is written without limits, highlighting the wealth of past and present. Creating an urban living room in a natural form, it is ultimately a place for rest and spirituality where people can live and work in a relaxed mode.

-Project description and images provided by CURRENT NEWSWIRE

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