Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)

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Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)

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  • Gross Built up Area: 673 sq.mt.
  • Project Location: Hangzhou
  • Country: China
  • Interior + Furniture: CCD / Cheng Chung Design
  • Photo Credits: Wang Ting
  • Others: Art consulting: CCD · WOWU Art Consultancy
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Excerpt: Focus Hangzhou, a Home Interior by CCD (Cheng Chung Design), expresses the concept of “creating something from nothing” in Oriental aesthetics.  The design emphasises a sense of architecture in the interior space through the structural blocks, the streamlined window frames, and the progressive, orderly circulation route. The design consists of a ripple pattern and a hollow-out opening, where the structural block allows for a glimpse of the buildings on the river bank under different light conditions.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by architect] Overlooking the river and connecting with the sky, FOCUS HANGZHOU embraces an unparalleled setting. With the spirit of the era, it ambitiously defines the skyline of the city and forms a new iconic landmark building cluster on the bank of Qiantang River together with the Hangzhou Arch among the seven “Big Dipper” towers.

“Urban landmarks are not so much about a name, but more about a pattern, a kind of power and grandeur, and a poetic lifestyle that integrates Eastern artistic conception with Western form.”

— Joe Cheng

Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)
© Wang Ting
Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)
© Wang Ting

Gesture on the skyline

The floor-to-ceiling glazing brings in 270-degree clear views of the outdoor landscape, unfolding gradually like a scroll painting. The designers know profoundly the role of the “window”, which offers a glimpse of the city’s evolving culture and meanwhile unveils the spiritual codes in the architecture.

Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)
© Wang Ting
Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)
Plan © CCD (Cheng Chung Design)

To let everything on the river bank compose a natural view — this is the core idea behind Joe Cheng’s vision of FOCUS HANGZHOU. The open layout breaks the boundary, removes the visual barrier between the foyer, the living room, and the study, and blends aesthetics with formality. Forming a more expansive, holistic whole, the space brings in the fluidity of the turbulent water outside the window.

Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)
© Wang Ting

The “blank” space expresses the conception of “creating something from nothing” in Oriental aesthetics. The real and the virtual interweave, naturally forming an intriguing scene. The space becomes a stage, where people are like dancers that create dynamics and rhythms.

A sense of architecture 

Echoing the iconic Hangzhou Grand Theater and Hangzhou International Convention Center across the Qiantang River, FOCUS HANGZHOU embodies the power and enlightenment of the city’s landmarks in interior design. The designers emphasize a sense of architecture in the interior space through the structural blocks, the streamlined window frames, and the progressive, orderly circulation route.

Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)
© Wang Ting
Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)
© Wang Ting

Upon stepping into the space, people are embraced by its grandeur. The living room area is open and expansive, complemented by interweaving light and shadows from outdoors and indoors, irregularly formed sofas and floor lamps, with the semi-circular lines shaping a magnificent scale.

Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)
© Wang Ting

In the simple and elegant setting, a block with rounded edges is specially added to the dining area. With a ripple pattern and a hollow-out opening, this structural block allows for a glimpse of the buildings on the river bank under different light conditions. Like a frame, it captures the cityscape.

Unbounded potentiality 

The 30-meter frontage that faces the outdoor landscape, the fascinating river view, the undulating building skylines and the curvy forms, are sources of inspiration for the interior design. The artistic aesthetic and the functional division created on this basis can better cater to urban elites who value the quality and dynamics of life.

Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)
© Wang Ting
Focus Hangzhou | CCD (Cheng Chung Design)
© Wang Ting

With an unparalleled 270-degree river view, the space invites people to sit and chat, take a sip, or lie down to watch the outdoor landscape, embracing the sky, the city, the sun, and the moon. In the long river of time, each of us is a “gold” collector. This is a space where the occupants can gather the events that unfolded over the years. It offers unbounded potentiality and interweaves different states of how we live our realities, in which different futures are played out.

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