MUDA Chengdu Sky Office

MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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MUDA CHENGDU SKY OFFICE

MUDA-Architects

ARCHITECTS
Muda-architects

LEAD ARCHITECT
Yun Lu

LIGHTING
BPI

CONSTRUCTION
Sichuan Chu Feng Architectural Decoration Design Co.

DESIGN TEAM
Aidong Li, Chenyu Lv, Dian Rong

PHOTOGRAPHS
HereSpace

AREA
350 m²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Chengdu, China

CATEGORY
Offices Interiors

At the height of 160 meters and with a 270-degree view, MUDA's new office site is located on the 38th floor of Chengdu China Resources Building, right next to the eastern viaduct of the second ring road.

MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
space and city framing. Image © HereSpace

When you look around, you can appreciate the gorgeousness of snow mountains on the west, and the well-constructed city skyline and urban footprint.

Full-height glazing blurs the boundary between the cityscape and office interior, while the mullions and columns framing the city view with different dimensions and perspectives. MUDA hopes its design strategies could be inspired under such scenarios.

MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
wood, concrete and white color. Image © HereSpace
MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
multi-functional room. Image © HereSpace

MUDA added the suspended ceiling with hollowed-out wooden texture grids, creating a well-organized spatial texture. The main consideration for the spatial design was comfortability.

To begin with, MUDA selected the wood color as the base and performed it with different materiality on the ceiling, floor, and interior façade.

MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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At the same time, the white office tables revitalize the space; the bare concrete columns empower its sense of potency and time; the well-designed furniture system and flexible space divisions, compose a contemporary urban Shan-Shui painting.

The spatial design of MUDA's new office was aimed to reconsider and build up the ambiguity of the space in physical form, from the contemporary aspects of openness, comfortability, and intellectualization. 

MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
160m high panoramic sunset. Image © HereSpace

“We are only able to construct after to survive; housing is the biological expression of human beings, which suggests the desire to seek for the origin.

A working space highly associated with city development would help MUDA to better incorporate its understanding of humanity, architecture, nature, and city within future globalization and design practice.

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MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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scroll of space. Image © HereSpace
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scroll of space. Image © HereSpace
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smart light bulbs matrix GIF. Image © HereSpace
MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
different scenarios-speech GIF. Image © HereSpace

MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
looking into the city. Image © HereSpace
MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
"parallel world" in the mirror. Image © HereSpace
MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
tranquil spatial qualities. Image © HereSpace
MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
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MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
curved glass and wooden louvers. Image © HereSpace
MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
bar-variable color luminous film. Image © HereSpace
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MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
wood grain aluminum tube and bare concrete column. Image © HereSpace
MUDA Chengdu Sky Office
glass, stainless steel and black leather. Image © HereSpace
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original office interior


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exploded axonometric
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ceiling construction details


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perspective section


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furnishing