[NYC25]

Key Dates

20 Mar -Launch Deadline
19 Jun -Standard
11 Dec -Extended Deadline
14 Dec -Judging
17 Dec -Winners Announced
Wednesday, 10 December 2025 00:23 local time

LONGFOR GROUP · SUMMIT LAND (EXHIBITION CENTER)

LONGFOR GROUP / DAS Design Co.,Ltd | Interior Design - International Sales Center

 
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Project Commissioner

LONGFOR GROUP

Project Creator

DAS Design Co.,Ltd

Project Overview

This project is a collaboration between Longfor Group and DAS Design. Situated in Kunming, Yunnan, it takes "The Grace of Yunnan, the Symbiosis of Clouds and Water" as its theme. It connects the Bronze Age of history, reflects on the current scenery of Dianchi Lake, and envisions a future utopia, folding the past, present, and future together here to initiate an encounter with art.

The design team integrates the natural and humanistic imagery of Kunming as the "Spring City & Flower Capital" and "Plateau Pearl", endowing each space with an immersive story. With high-end custom art as the brush and the cultural context of Dianchi Lake as the paper, they have crafted a luxury residential landmark that transcends the times.

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Project Brief

In the spiritual space, the designers have turned geometric lines into a poetic play of light. The array of columns encloses a serene area, creating a spiritual resonance that echoes I.M. Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. The high-vaulted ceiling draws in natural light, extending a sense of divinity vertically and whispering eternity in response to Carlo Scarpa’s philosophical thoughts on light and shadow.

Drawing inspiration from the imagery of mountains and rocks, the design deconstructs and reorganizes this concept: pieces of jade stone slabs hang in a staggered manner. The opening and closing of these blocks leave negative space for "breathing", with their density resembling layers of clouds and peaks. The natural texture of the jade filters the flowing light, unfolding like a moving network of longitude and latitude above the sand table. The architectural model stands bathed in light, with the urban texture rising and falling with the play of light and shadow, like a miniature Yunnan landscape shrouded in the misty charm of ink wash painting.

Project Need

With Time, Space, and Humanities as its core, the project constructs a narrative framework of "Traversing a millennium of time-space folding to encounter the historical context of the Spring City". It connects the ancient Dian bronze age, the Tang Dynasty, the modern era, and a futuristic utopia to create a "collectible time-space context art gallery", breaking the limitation of traditional luxury residences that only focus on physical space and endowing the project with a spiritual core and cultural depth.

The derivative design concept of "super-fluid art" integrates Zaha’s fluid aesthetics with the texture of Dianchi Lake’s shoreline, creating a new geographic symbol at 25°N. It transforms natural forms into visual and perceptible spatial language, reshaping the contemporary expression of plateau lakes.

Breaking away from the traditional model of ICH symbol collage, Yunnan’s intangible cultural heritage is converted into experiential living scenarios through material technology and spatial interaction.

The Dianchi Lake shoreline is extracted as a super symbol, running through the carpet system, floral art system, fragrance system, and ornament system to form a unified and highly recognizable visual and sensory system.

Design Challenge

Bronze must strike a balance between a sense of historical gravity and the lightness of contemporary spaces. It requires integrating the posture of plumage and metallic texture through exquisite carving craftsmanship to prevent the material from appearing cumbersome.

The translucent warmth of natural marble, the pearlescent texture of mother-of-pearl, and the smooth luster of jade perfectly meet the demand for "international aesthetic classics + understated luxury" — for instance, natural marble is used in wall lamps and reception desks to create a soft atmosphere of "morning light filtering through clouds". The material details convey the concept of "understated luxury" and subtly showcase high-end quality.

Sustainability

Through scenario-based integration + youth-oriented presentation, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) crafts are brought out of museums, transforming ICH into tangible and participatory living scenarios and facilitating the contemporary inheritance of traditional culture.

The super elevated floor achieves "one space for multiple scenarios": it functions as a cloud-themed bookstore & café, an ICH experience zone, and a cultural and creative retail space all at once. This design boosts space utilization and avoids the idleness and waste of single-function spaces.
Supporting facilities including the children's playground, fitness area, and swimming pool balance display needs during the sales phase with usage demands after handover. No secondary renovation is required, which reduces resource consumption.

Application of local materials and natural elements: Priority is given to Yunnan local materials to cut down carbon emissions from cross-regional transportation; a large number of green plant landscapes are incorporated into soft furnishings to improve the indoor microenvironment and realize indoor ecologicalization.


Interior Design - International Sales Center

Open to all international projects this award celebrates innovative and creative building interiors, with consideration given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes, aesthetic presentation and functionality. Consideration also given to space allocation, flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.  <div><b> </b></div>
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