PAINT DROP

Paint Drop
LifeHub | Daning Road | Shanghai, China

It is a public space intervention that was designed to join two separate blocks of a retail street that is going under renovation. The project is located in the heart of Shanghai, in a retail street in Daning Road. The concept that inspired the project was a surreal imaginative event: someone dropped a bucket of painting on the streets, splashing all around with colors.

Official Video | 100 Chanel
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Paint Drop is a creative public space intervention designed to create a visual link between the main plaza and a newly open retail space, to firstly make the new space noticeable, and secondly attract customers dragging them through a color splash corridor.

It is composed of 8 catenary arches that spread across a pedestrian intersection in a commercial district in Shanghai. Every time the arches touche the ground, a small seating feature is created.

Life Hub @ Daning, a 250,000 sqm mixed-use development with 110,000 sqm shopping mall, is one of the hottest commercial areas in Shanghai, due to its condition of the open-air retail street.

As the installation was intended to call the attention of pedestrians and drag them to the desired area, it had to be both, eye-catching & permeable allowing pedestrian circulation through it.
To comply with both requests, a tunnel of splashing color paint was proposed as theme.

The solution consisted of a system of 8 catenary arches linked to each other spreading along the intended path, rendered as paint dropping on the floor from above. As the paint arches reach the floor, a splash of color occurs, leaving a functional trace in the form of seating features and resting areas accompanied by immersive floor graphics to enhance the experience.

The 8 arches from the colorful tunnel were equipped with an interactive lighting system. Movement sensors were placed at the bases of the arches, which would activate flexible LED strips of light embedded in the arches every time a person would pass by.

During the summer period, the vortex of color became one of the hotspots of Life Hub @ Daning’s open-air retail street, gathering kids and adults alike, and successfully increasing the pedestrian circulation at the desired spot.

CREDITS:

Project Name:Design: 100architects (Shanghai)
Design Team: Marcial Jesus, Javier Gonzalez, Anshuman Roy
Production: Hong Yang Advertising
Client: Life Hub @ Daning, (Chongbang Group)
Location: Daning Road, Jing’An District, Shanghai, China
Area: 650 m2
Completion: June 2018
Photographer: Amey Kandalgaonkar

OLYMPIA

Olympia
LifeHub | Daning Road | Shanghai, China

It is a public space intervention in a commercial district in the heart of Shanghai. It is located on the intersection of two new open pedestrian streets at Daning Road. This project is a gathering of urban artifacts for different group ages. It is composed of playing objects as well as seating and shading features.

This public space design aims to attract pedestrian and passersby through its exciting colorful landscape and topography. It’s morphology allows the user to play, to jump, to climb and many more things. On the other hand, the project counts with seating features and a red “object plaza” with an umbrella and a lounge area for the pedestrian to take a break from the extreme summer heat.

Olympia official movie | 100A Channel

Olympia is a playscape inspired in sports due to the celebration of the FIFA World Cup during the same period. Designed to attract customers and enhance the World Cup experience.

Olympia was strategically located at the intersection of 2 newly renovated pedestrian streets in the commercial district called Life Hub @ Daning. Life Hub @ Daning, a 250,000 sqm mixed use development, is one of the hottest commercial areas in Shanghai, due to its condition of open-air retail street.

The intersection had been recently turned into pedestrian road and therefore a public space project was commissioned to 100 Architects in order to promote it and re-activate the area after the renovation works.

Scheduled to be open to public in July 2018, it was coinciding with the FIFA World Cup celebrated in Russia at the same time, which was reason enough to inspire the installation in sports. Not only football though, the installation was actually composed of 2 sports: Football & Tennis.

The two surreal pitches would collide creating a world of colors and playful shapes, slopes, tunnels and bubbles at the service of children’s entertainment. Both areas were surrounded by a running track, to enhance the multisport narrative and to add fun features to the playscape.

A red object plaza was added right adjacent to the playscape, designed as a lounge platform for adults to rest and take a break while watching their kids having fun. It has a huge umbrella that protects the user from the summer sun.

The INNOVATIVE playscape by itself turned the new pedestrian streets into an attractive eye catching and busy “SPACE”. A space where the passersby could bring their kids and families, spending some quality time interacting with other kids and families, as well as reactivating the pedestrian circulation at that spot.

During the summer period, the newly renovated pedestrian intersection became one of the hotspots of Life Hub @ Daning’s open-air retail street, gathering kids and adults alike.

RED ARROW

Red Arrow
LiYang Rd 111 | North Bund | Shanghai, China

It is an intervention in the open public lobby of a co-working heritage building from 1926. The pavement creates an intense red direction that invites the user to come in. The arrow then bends creating an amphitheatre and a meeting room underneath pointing to the ceiling with a huge LED screen arrow-shaped.
The Red Arrow is an interior renovation of the public lobby of a historical building from 1926. Its new owners pictured this lobby as a public space open to the citizens of Hongkou District.

Regency One, a successful provider of serviced offices & conference centers in Shanghai, commissioned us the lobby interior design of their newly acquired office building at the North Bund. The vision was to treat the lobby as a public space, not only for the serviced offices clients, but also to the neighbors of Hongkou district.

To achieve that welcoming character, the lobby was rendered as a welcoming red carpet visible from the street, an eye-catching runway leading to an amphitheater. The amphitheater serves as both, as accessing staircase to the 2nd floor and as amphitheater for events and social meeting point.

Topping off with a vertical LED screen shaped as an arrow pointing up in allegory to overcoming & improvement, effort & success and professional realization. It is all an arrow that invites you in, inspires you and expels your potential to the top.

The lobby hosts a series of capsules embedded in the wall as fixed furniture, providing different functions to the space, such as meeting table capsule, working table capsule, resting lounge capsule, company briefing capsule, group debating capsule, etc…
Besides the fixed furniture, there is also a set of loose furniture as flexible solution to be used according to different needs.

As mentioned before, the big amphitheater serves as the main public space feature, able to hold events with the support of the arrow LED screen, and act as a gathering point.
In order to maximize the functionality of the lobby space, we took advantage of the space generated underneath the amphitheater to create a meeting room available for clients.

As a fun feature, a slide was added to speed up the way to get down from the 2nd floor to the lobby, keeping alive the kid inside each of us in a professional playground. Public toilets were also part of the scope, in which the monochromatic approach was taken to its limit, creating an entire blue room for men toilet, and an entire pink room for lady’s toilet.

Project Credits

Project name: Red Arrow
Designer: 100architects
Design team: Marcial Jesus, Javier Gonzalez
Project Management: Jenny Fan
Client: Regency One
Location: Liyang Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai, China
Built area: 500 m2
Completion: August 2017
Photographer: Amey Kandalgaonkar

BLUE RIBBON

The Blue Ribbon
LifeHub | Daning lu | Shanghai, China

It is an urban intervention in a commercial district of Shanghai. It is located in the LifeHub, a retail street in the heart of Shanghai. The ribbon shape bends and turns over generating ergonomic shapes that can be used for many different group ages as well as for different activities such as climbing, seating, lounging and more.

Official Video | 100A Channel
Blue Ribbon Video

It is a public space intervention in an outdoor space just at the intersection of two pedestrian streets. The project is a circular object that by bending and turning it creates shapes that facilitate interactions among people.

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A single ribbon that creates shapes for playing, climbing, seating and much more. On the other hand, it encloses a space for a playground. It is one ribbon that bending and folding create spaces and positions for kids and adults alike.
There are also some yellow boxes as seating features for the pedestrian to rest protected from the extreme summer conditions of Shanghai.

The Blue Ribbon is a creative public space intervention designed to foster interactions among kids and adults in a virtually enclosed space.

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Life Hub @ Daning, a 250,000 sqm mixed use development with 110,000 sqm shopping mall, is one of the hottest commercial areas in Shanghai, due to its condition of open-air retail street.

The installation was intended to generate a meeting point for families within a safe and enclosed area. A space for fun and interaction of kids and adults.

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Therefore, the circle was selected as the universal symbolic shape of unity, inclusion, wholeness and perfection. It implies the idea of cyclic movement as a perpetual motion.
The basic circular shape was bent creating different functional topographical profiles, granting the look of a Ribbon.

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Those bends create openings for accessing the central space, seating features, mini-amphitheaters, ramps, slopes, etc.… encouraging the gathering and interaction of people.

The resulting enclosed area is rendered as a playground, filled with basic geometric objects as soft pillows to be colonized by kids.

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A green flooring surface serves as informational and directional canvas, displaying information at the same time as it enhances the perception of being within the circle.

Taking advantage of the highest bends of the ribbon, yellow functional boxes were plugged-in as platforms for adults to rest and have a break, as chatting capsules with a certain degree of privacy.

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The Blue Ribbon not only creates a playful cyclical platform as a challenging path to be traveled by kids by jumping, climbing, sliding and crawling up and down. It also provides with different shapes to host different activities.

During the summer period, the Blue Ribbon became the truly meeting point at Life Hub @ Daning’s open-air retail street, gathering kids and adults alike, and successfully increasing the pedestrian circulation at the pedestrian intersection.

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Official Video | 100architects Channel
Blue Ribbon Video 2

CREDITS:

Project Name:Design: 100architects (Shanghai)
Design Team: Marcial Jesus, Javier Gonzalez, Anshuman Roy
Production: Hong Yang Advertising
Client: Life Hub @ Daning, (Chongbang Group)
Location: Daning Road, Jing’An District, Shanghai, China
Area: 350 m2
Completion: June 2018
Photographer: Amey Kandalgaonkar

JUNGLE RACE

The Jungle Race
The Place | Shanghai | China

It is an unusual intervention in a commercial building that creates a space that will take the users out of this reality. It is located in The Place, a shopping Mall in the heart of Shanghai.

Jungle Race Official Movie | 100 Chanel

It is designed as a journey through a magical safari where the roads climb from the ground to the walls creating a surreal landscape with animals and lighting features.
The project extends through the entire second floor of the shopping mall creating a circuit of experiences for kids and adults alike.

Jungle Race is a 1,200 m2 indoor intervention designed to reactivate sparsely used areas in a shopping mall, occupying the entire 2nd floor and with special emphasis on one of the corridors without any commercial shopfronts.

Due to the lack of shopfronts, that corridor seemed like a back of house residual space with poor pedestrian circulation. The client envisioned to turn it into a family-oriented entertaining space.

However, intervening the entire floor was challenging because the normal course of the commercial activity could not be affected by the intervention. Therefore, a 2D graphic on the ground was the approach taken, proposing a kids-oriented path within the course of the adults’ circulation.

Within this conditioning framework was born Jungle Race, a creative & surreal racing track throughout the entire floor of a shopping mall, which reached its peak of surrealism within the corridor with an explosion of colors and immersive graphics.

Themed as a jungle, with animals and nature-related elements which added value to the immersive experience, the racing track would colonize floor, walls and ceiling of the corridor, becoming tunnel of fun, a bent surreal canvas for expelling kids’ imagination to another world.

The space was designed as a circuit of eventful surprises, from the perspective of generating an experience, an experiential route with its own rhythm of eventful situations and interactive elements to be traveled by kids and adults alike.

In collaboration with Squiggle Labs, we implemented lighting interaction throughout the tunnel, embedded in mushrooms and traffic lights, which would light up every time kids were approaching with their cars.

What before was a dead corridor with no use whatsoever, turned into a lively tunnel of fun where kids and parents could have some quality time together, which was what client had envisioned at first.

CREDITS

Project name: Jungle Race
Designer: 100architects
Design team: Marcial Jesus, Javier Gonzalez, Anshuman Roy
Production: Hong Yang Advertising
Client: The Place (Nanfung Group)
Location: The Place, Changming District, Shanghai, China
Built area: 1,200 m2
Completion: February 2018
Photographer: Amey Kandalgaonkar

MUSIC STORY

MUSIC STORY
The Place | Interior Revamp | Shanghai, China

Music Floor is an interior revamp of the public areas in the 4th floor of The Place, which was dedicated to Music & Dance related stores, such as musical instruments stores and dance academies among others.

Official Video | 100 Chanel

Therefore, the proposal for the public areas should reflect that musicality and dancing spirit, to blend into its surrounding environment, enhance the customer experience and engage with their audience.

It was important to analyze the entire floor and identify potential key spots where featured installations could be placed without affecting the normal course of the commercial activity.

By spreading and locating smartly the number of interventions along the entire floor, and connecting them with an eye-catching painted scape, we could create an interesting themed immersive experience minimizing the number of intervened spaces while maximizing the impact and success of the project as a whole.

The landings of both escalator cores, a residual wall, and the longest & narrowest corridor in the floor were identified as potential key spots to host the main installations.

The surrounding space of the escalator cores were premium locations offering more generous spaces to host installations without really interfering in the pedestrian circulation.

One of them was the word MUSIC, consisting on giant eye-catching letters which could be used as seating and gathering feature right in front of the cinema’s entrance. The other one was a giant iPod, an interactive interface offering pretty much the same functionality as a real iPod thanks to the collaboration of Squiggle Labs by engineering the interactivity.

In order to interfere the less as possible, we decided to cover the columns with a new iPod-looking case, turning a normal column into a fun feature. To enhance it, we added earphone-looking benches next to it.
For the 3rd installation, we took advantage of an unused residual wall in the main corridor to turn it into an attractive space.

The bent Piano was the idea we came up with in order to take advantage of the wall but still allow people to interact with the installation and be part of it.
Again, in collaboration with Squiggle Labs we created an interactive Piano in which the piano keys would reproduce its sound & change its lighting behavior as people would step onto them.

And the last intervention was in the longest & narrowest corridor in the entire floor. It was the less pleasantly walkable space within the 4th floor, and therefore it needed to be revamped to attract customers through it. But how to intervene a very narrow corridor without interfering in the pedestrian circulation? The ceiling.

CREDITS

Project Name: Music Floor
Design: 100architects
Design Team: Marcial Jesus, Javier Gonzalez, Anshuman Roy
Interactive Engineering: Squiggle Labs
Production Company: Hong Yang Advertising
Client: The Place, Nanfung Group
Location: The Place, 100 Zunyi Road, Changning District, Shanghai, China
Built area: 1,000 m2
Completion: February 2018
Photography: Amey Kandalgaonkar

SNOW GLOBE

Snow Globe
XinTianDi| Shanghai| China

A 4 stories gigantic dome in the heart of shanghai. It creates an amazing space to get inside, enjoy the views, slide down, swim the ball pit and more.
The Snow Globe is a public space intervention on the renowned award-winning Retail Street of Shanghai Xintiandi, in downtown Shanghai, as central piece of their Christmas 2017 campaign, and also part of festival Lumières Shanghai 2017.

Snow Globe official Video | 100 Chanel

It was designed to foster social interactions, attract customers and enhance the Christmas experience in the public realm.

China Xintiandi, a subsidiary of Shui On Land, is an investor, operator and manager of premium commercial properties in the Chinese Mainland, nurturing vibrant communities and commercially thriving districts built around the idea of ‘live, work and play’.

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China Xintiandi pursues the mission of ‘bring places to life, and life to places’ throughout their real estate developments, creating landmarks not only for shopping, entertaining, leisure and lifestyle, but also for art display.

The installation should be themed within the Christmas spirit beyond any typical Christmas Tree-type decorative installation, calling the attention of not only kids but adults alike, to use it and experience it rather than just passing by and observing it.

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Our proposal arose from the idea of creating a “space” rather than an “object”, from the intention of creating something that surrounds people, instead of something to be surrounded by people, offering an immersive experience in which the visitor would be part of the installation’s narrative.

That’s how the giant Snow Globe was conceived, a 12 m. diameter geodesic dome performed by a stainless steel structure covered with transparent acrylic panels to enclose the space and give the feeling of a glass snow globe.

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The 3-meter-tall base incorporates 2 staircases to access to the interior of the globe on the 2nd floor, and also hosts a playful ball pit where visitors land when sliding down the spiral slide that goes down from the 2nd floor.

As snow globes do, the dome would contain a Christmas Tree inside, a low-poly structure finished with dichroic acrylic in order to offer a spectacular look during both, the day and the night. During the day lights would barely be appreciated, reason why the look of the tree should be interesting enough by itself.

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The use of dichroic acrylic, a special rainbow-colored iridescent acrylic, provides a subtle mirror-like finish and changes color while moving, from different viewing angles.

At the same time, it is transparent, so at night it allows the neon flex LED interactive light structure to be seen clearly on the other side. Perfect for performing light shows at night.

But the interactive lighting structure hidden within the tree is not the only lighting feature of the installation. The entire geodesic dome is equipped with neon flex LED lights in every single edge of the triangulated façade, creating a spherical canvas for lighting shows and interactive purposes.

Project Credits

Project name: The Snow Globe
Architecture Design: 100architects (Shanghai)
Light & Sound Interaction Design: Dogma Lab (Shanghai) + Anyways, Here’s the Thing (NYC)
Engineering: Squiggle Labs (Shanghai)
Construction: EMCC (Shanghai)
Design team: Marcial Jesus, Javier Gonzalez
Client: China Xintiandi (Shui On Land)
Location: Shanghai Xintiandi, Madang Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China
Built area: 200m2
Height: 15mts
Completion: November 2017
Photographer: Amey Kandalgaonkar

COOL GANG

COOL GANG
KunSquare | Kunshan | China

The Cool Gang is a creative indoor space intervention designed to foster interactions among kids and adults in the enclosed area of a pedestrian bridge connecting 2 buildings. It creates an space of stasis catching the attention of passersby by providing of an unusual interaction with their movement through the space.

Cool Gang Official Video | 100A channel

The aim of the installation was to reactivate a sparsely used area with low pedestrian traffic, and not only try to drag the circulation through the bridge, but also turn the bridge itself into a space for entertainment and joy, offering an amusing experience to the passersby.

It was a challenge to create a spatial intervention interesting enough to call the attention of people, but at the same time, less invasive as possible within the available space to circulate, and allow the free circulation of pedestrians.

As a result, we focused the intervention on the plane of the ground, covering the bridge floor with an upper layer of interactive panels, encouraging the action of walking and stepping onto the bridge, encouraging the movement throughout the bridge.
The responsive interaction was quite simple, but yet eye-catching for kids and adults alike, who suddenly and unexpectedly found themselves immersed in a visual and sound experience, realizing that as they step onto the panels, these ones would light up producing a sync sound.

The composition of those interactive panels, custom engineered, was based on an LED light box equipped with capacitive sensors able to sense the steps of the people through the finishing layer of colored tempered glass.
The sum of squared panels would compose the new look of the bridge’s floor, a pixelated approach was taken in order to design an interesting graphic. 3 funny Emojis were chosen to complete the Cool Gang of Emojis.

After its completion, we are all happy to see how the new space truly calls the attention of many people from both ends of the bridge, successfully increasing the pedestrian flow in the area.

Project Credits

Project name: Cool Gang
Designer: 100architects
Design team: Marcial Jesus, Javier Gonzalez, Eunice Ma
Production: Hong Yang Advertising
Client: Life Hub @ Kunshan, (Chongbang Group)
Location: Kunshan, China
Built area: 300 m2
Completion: June 2017
Photographer: Amey Kandalgaonkar

PUZZLE MAZE

Puzzle Maze
Life Hub | Daning Lu | Shanghai, China

It is a gigantic puzzle designed as a beautiful walkable urban object to experience from inside. It is a playful object that can host many users at the same time. It also provides of sitting features for parent to rest while their kids are playing inside the object.

Puzzle Mazze Video | 100A Channel

The Puzzle Maze is a public space intervention designed to foster interactions, attract customers and enhance the experience in the privately-owned public space within an open-air Retail Street.
Life Hub @ Daning, a 250,000 sqm mixed use development with 110,000 sqm shopping mall, is one of the hottest shopping centers in Shanghai, due to its condition of open-air retail street.

From the very beginning the marketing team of Life Hub @ Daning insisted on creating an INNOVATIVE kids’ playground. Something unexpected beyond any typical playground. An intervention that, by itself, would turn one of their most dead pedestrian streets with poor pedestrian circulation into an attractive and busy “SPACE”, where their customers could bring their kids and families and spend some quality time interacting with other kids and families, as well as reactivating the pedestrian circulation at that spot.

The pedestrian street to intervene was too narrow to be able to host any kind of activity involving kids while respecting the free & comfortable circulation of pedestrians. Therefore, we decided to create a vertical playground, liberating space on the ground level to allow proper circulation along the corridor.

The resulting proposal was a vertical maze, in which the horizontal slabs would act as a ladder system helping kids to climb up & down.

CREDITS

Project name: Puzzle Maze
Designer: 100architects
Design team: Marcial Jesus, Javier Gonzalez, Eunice Tsa
Client: Life Hub @ Daning, (Chongbang Group)
Location: Daning Road, Jin’An District, Shanghai, China
Built area: 228 m2
Height: 6 mts
Completion: June 2017
Photographer: Amey Kandalgaonkar

TANGO TRIANGLE

Tango Triangle
Life Hub | Daning Lu | Shanghai, China

It reacts to the users stepping on it: every time a panel is activated, it would be light up and make a piano sound. When it is not being used, it would have a few pre-established animation that would be fun to look at.

The Triangle Tango is a public intervention designed for the annual International Summer Festival organized by Life Hub @ Daning in their privately-owned public space within their open-air Retail Street.

Tango Triangle Official Video | 100A Channel

Life Hub @ Daning, a 250,000 sqm mixed use development with 110,000 sqm shopping mall, is one of the hottest shopping centers in Shanghai, due to its condition of open-air retail street.

From the very beginning the marketing team of Life Hub @ Daning insisted on creating something INTERACTIVE. Something unexpected beyond any typical decorative installation, that would attract kids and adults alike to come and use it, rather than pass by and observe it.

An intervention that, by itself, would turn a circulation area into a “SPACE” to stop and stay, where their customers could bring their kids and families and spend some quality time interacting with other kids and families.

The proposal could not block the visibility of storefronts around it, therefore our approach was to embed an interactive activity at the floor level. That decision led us to an installation where people should engage by stepping with their feet.

For this project we teamed up with the Shanghai-based American engineer and interactive designer Maciej Dudek, from Squiggle Labs, to generate responsive feature.
Based on new generation dancing games, we created a lighting & musical responsive platform reacting to people’s steps onto the triangular panels.
Capacitive sensors placed underneath the glass would feel the electromagnetic field and trigger a light blink and a musical piano tone every time someone would step on it.

Visually designed as a fractal combination of equilateral triangles, it also counts with a graphic design based on interesting patterns within each triangle seeking for a visual impact as an attractor mode whenever nobody was stepping on it.
The monochromatic treatment, with shades of yellow, was extended on the floor beyond the platform to enhance his visual impact.