LANWUU IMAGINE is a photography studio offering services like wedding dress photography, wedding ceremony coverage, and portrait sessions. The founder’s vision is to capture moments of excitement and satisfaction, emphasizing special occasions through photography. The studio aims to produce warm, heartfelt images that highlight the beauty in everyday life. After discussions with the owner, we both aspire to mirror this brand essence in the design of the space.
Project Name: LANWUU IMAGINE
Studio Name: Aurora Design
Location: Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
Area: 400㎡
Chief Designer: Yang Xuewan（ins: yxwan ）
Design Team: Wang Da, Zhang Sijie
Lighting design: Uniimport
Design Time: 2023.08
Completion Time: 2023.12
Construction: Rebuilding Space Lab
Photography: Na Xin from INSPACE
The project is situated in a residential community. AURORA DESIGN aims to align the brand’s mission with the unique features of the area, capturing the beauty of everyday moments. These moments are preserved within the fluidity of time, showcasing the charm of ordinary life.
The existing structures on the site are retained, with functional zones developing around a central core area. While maintaining the site’s memory, a new spatial narrative is created, generating tension between time and space and evoking a sense of ‘unfinished’ modern poetry.
Throughout the design process, the concept of “unfinished” is expressed through various mediums. The designer captures the beauty of mundane moments in time, while also contemplating the unknown future.
As sunlight breaks through, a cool metallic sheen reveals a doorway. Vibrant pink décor catches your eye. Scaffolding evokes a construction site “in progress,” suggesting an allure despite its incomplete state. This “unfinished” nature invites curiosity and exploration.
The interior preserves the original narrative, with simple ceiling designs and orderly lighting. This approach maintains the space’s initial essence, imbuing it with ambiguity and continuity. The interplay between its initial and ongoing states creates an expansive spatial form.
Basic elements like mass are used to connect spatial relationships. Rotating cylindrical structures define spaces, capturing moments where their free forms depict freedom and continuity, aligning with the reception area’s functionality. In the exhibition space, semi-enclosed cylindrical structures create a soothing form that guides viewers’ emotions and directs their gaze. Scene transitions and spatial changes rely on fundamental elements, establishing a new flow between guests and the environment.
The color palette includes metal, stainless steel, concrete gray, wood tones, and marble. These expressive colors infuse the space, creating a bold, sophisticated ambiance. Notably, stainless steel and metal elements add a futuristic and artistic texture.
The designer uses basic geometric elements and colors to define the space’s characteristics, infusing it with freedom, sophistication, and boldness, along with an essence of ‘unfinished,’ reflecting the brand’s multidimensional nature.
With a romantic view of life, dynamic architectural language reshapes indoor scenery, cultivating a rich narrative. A circular structure at the main entrance draws focus, while a semi-enclosed design fosters diverse spatial tension, creating an emotional experiential center.
The chat zone, designed like a café bar, incorporates a coffee concept, enhancing the sensory experience. The lively yet organized layout features a rectangular carpet, casual seating, and touches of greenery, reminiscent of a neighborhood park or roadside seating.
A round window, mimicking a camera lens, integrates with white exterior walls, establishing LANWUU IMAGINE’s brand perspective. The inclusive white color embraces and preserves beautiful moments, capturing the essence of fleeting time.
A metal staircase divides the space into leisure and working areas, providing distinct transitions. The makeup and dressing rooms, primarily with wooden partitions, resemble Japanese-style rooms, ensuring privacy while embodying simplicity and comfort.
A metal-textured sliding door and graffiti-adorned corridors reflect the bustling city, blending reflective metal and concrete materials. This contrast highlights the space’s texture and structural beauty, expressing self-improvement and the brand’s essence.
The designer presents various interpretations of beautiful moments through scene changes, blending perspectives with visitors’ emotions and memories. AURORA DESIGN deconstructs the brand profile, starting from ordinary life, and extends the beauty of fleeting moments through the concept of “unfinished” time and space. We look forward to discovering more unseen beauty and warmth through deeper reflections on changing scenery.
