MAD Architects has conceived a new design center for international fashion group Xinhee in the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen. Designed as six petals growing from a central atrium, the 61,000 square meter building will sit on a 15,000 square meter site, and will serve as the home of Xinhee and its six subsidiary brands.  

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MAD Architects has conceived a new design center for international fashion group Xinhee in the coastal Chinese city of Xiamen. Designed as six petals growing from a central atrium, the 61,000 square meter building will sit on a 15,000 square meter site, and will serve as the home of Xinhee and its six subsidiary brands.   ?We envision it as a building with skin-and-bones,? reveals MAD founding principal Ma Yansong, ?the correspondence of clothing and architecture is they both explore the relationship between the interior and the exterior.?
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The plan of the complex takes the shape of a six-pointed star, mixing office and garden spaces along each of the ?organically-formed arms.? Vertical gardens run up the height of the arms, veiled by a PTFE envelope, which acts as a sun-shade to diffuse light and provide ventilation to the building during the hot season. The lightweight skin also gives the building an elegant, floating appearance, like ?a piece of delicate, thin, soft skin covering the ?bone? struc...