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Visitor Pavilion of Beijing Zhima Health Digital Factory / WUUX Architecture Design Studio / China

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Elegant modern interior with brick walls, large windows and a zen-style indoor garden highlighting contemporary design and minimalism

The Visitor Pavilion of Beijing Zhima Health Digital Factory by WUUX Architecture Design Studio serves as a public gateway to the extensive C2M smart manufacturing complex in Daxing. More than just an entrance or exhibition, it presents a immersing narrative about health, technology and brand through layered materials, changing light and spatial drama — connecting the factory and exhibition, tradition and innovation.

Visitor Pavilion exterior view of Beijing Zhima Health Daxing as a glowing gatePhotography © Zheng Yan

Concept and Spatial Strategy

WUUX presents the building as a linear path through time and function. The entrance becomes a ceremonial threshold of time and space, where stainless steel posts, mirror planes and patterned tiles indicate continuity and transformation. From this threshold, visitors move through curved corridors, multi-layered galleries and immersing exhibition volumes, unfolding in thematic chapters — history, production, future — each defined by material shifts, light modulation and interactive media.

Stainless steel posts and mirror planes marking the threshold in the visitor pavilionPhotography © Zheng Yan

Dynamic folding planes, mirror ceilings and programmable lighting blur architectural boundaries, connecting space and exhibition, drawing visitors deeper into the brand's history, health and digital transformation.

Curved corridor clad in reflective materials leading to thematic zonesPhotography © Zheng Yan

Materiality, Light and Architectural Expression

The futuristic yet grounded palette dances with reflection, transparency and tactility:

  • Mirror stainless steel, black mirrors and sandblasted steel with silver sheen react to movement and light, enhancing depth.
  • Artistic ceramic tiles, stainless steel blocks and glass partitions mark narrative turning points.
  • Electro-atomized glass toggles between opacity and translucency for temporal reveals and concealments.
  • Stone, mirror and high-gloss surfaces soften industry with tactile calm.

Light is the primary carrier: large volumes, controlled lighting zones and adaptive facades form changing shadows and reflections, constantly reconfiguring perception.

Mirror ceiling and dynamic lighting blurring scale in the exhibition hallPhotography © Zheng Yan

Visitor Journey and Experience

Arrival is oriented by stainless steel posts rising like monuments, indicating branding and forward movement. The route alternates compression and release: walls fold and reflect, booths float in mirror halls, interfaces are embedded in sloped planes. The round immersive hall acts as a 360° 'universe of health', integrating film, data and artifacts into one spatial canvas. Transparent partitions and suspended acrylic displays create a sensation of weightlessness, digital-physical continuum.

Entrance hall with mirror walls and stainless steel elements creating a ceremonial atmospherePhotography © Zheng Yan

At turning points — corners, thresholds, exposure zones — architecture changes scale, material or light, restarting attention and supporting the rhythm of anticipation and discovery.

Floating exhibition booths reflecting on glossy surfaces in a dim galleryPhotography © Zheng YanLong mirror gallery with integrated displays and directional lighting indicatorsPhotography © Zheng Yan

Architecture as Interface Between Brand and Space

The pavilion connects production and public experience, embodying the aesthetics of Ton Ren Tan / Zhima Health: respect for tradition, acceptance of innovation and integration of health × design × technology. Through mirror transitions, deconstruction/reassembly of materials and layered media architecture plays a spatial metaphor where the past disintegrates into the present to open a shared future.

Stainless steel posts forming a colonnade that creates a procession movementPhotography © Zheng Yan

Material and light function as UI/UX at the architectural level — guiding flow, focusing attention and encoding messages through place.

Mirror corridor enhancing perceived depth and spatial coherencePhotography © Zheng YanRound multimedia hall presenting a 360-degree brand and production historyPhotography © Zheng Yan

Electrochromic glass orchestrates controlled reveals — from intimate artifact viewing to wide-scale production scenes — aligning transparency with narrative.

Electro-atomized glass transitioning from opaque to translucent between zonesPhotography © Zheng YanBlack mirror shell amplifying light reflections and visitorsPhotography © Zheng Yan

Where galleries narrow, mirror ceilings blur height; where they open up, stone and glossy surfaces recalibrate scale and touch.

Mirror ceiling enhancing exhibits and movement for extended field of viewPhotography © Zheng YanConnection of stone, mirror and steel highlighting craftsmanship and precisionPhotography © Zheng Yan

Suspended acrylic displays and sloped partitions create a sense of levitation, synchronizing physical artifacts with graphic data.

Acrylic displays suspended in a mirror environment for weightless effectPhotography © Zheng YanLong axis with reflections enhancing the perceived procession through spacePhotography © Zheng Yan

When the route reaches its end, mirror thresholds compress to a final reveal: an overview of production aligning brand history with operational reality.

Reveal wall transitioning from exhibition to production viewPhotography © Zheng Yan

Details — tile matrices, steel connections, glass reveals — encode the brand's strict design direction at every level, ensuring message readability from macro to micro.

Details of ceramic and steel surfaces creating a tactile patterned fieldPhotography © Zheng YanSloped partitions with integrated interactive displays inside mirror shellsPhotography © Zheng Yan

In all this, architecture functions as an interface: orienting, informing and surprising while maintaining a clear connection to the digital factory it represents.

Directed lighting guiding along a linear narrativePhotography © Zheng YanHigh-gloss mirror gallery displaying cutting-edge technologies and conceptsPhotography © Zheng YanExhibition wall with overlay archival materials and media in the form of a brand timelinePhotography © Zheng YanStone and mirror threshold offering a tactile pause between major exhibition chaptersPhotography © Zheng Yan

Conclusion: From Factory to Forum

The Visitor Pavilion acts as a mediator between production and public — a space where health, craft and computation intertwine. Through mirror transitions, atomized glass and choreographed lighting, WUUX crafts an architectural UI: the past disintegrates into the present, opening a shared future in health, platforms and human connection.

Final view aligning the exhibition narrative with the operational digital factory beyondPhotography © Zheng Yan