Maó Space Guangzhou, Yuexiu District Building, Retail Architecture China News
Maó Space Guangzhou
25 Nov 2020
Maó Space in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Design: One Fine Day Studio & Partners
Location: ARAapM, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou

Photos by YUUUUNSTUDIO
Dust of Time | Maó Space
In a block of excess resource, we wish to set up a space based on collecting the fragments of the past and to re-define the time of forgotten.
Here, time is shown on the metallic ruins;

time could be glimpsed through the tinted lens;

time has been adorning the frames;

And here, time has brought about the classics especially in the heyday of technology…
Just like fads are determined to be outdated as time goes by, all things would come and go as temporal fragments.
In this newly established space, One Fine Day Studio & Partners (ofD) has customized all sorts of furniture by using fiber glass, made the ceiling and walls with Xuan paper and built a spiral stairway of half storey height. Not only this, in order to play with the idea of time being intangible, ofD has also picked the visually stunning sofa of Gufram, the black velvet mirror of Thomas & Vines, as well as the seemingly malleable chair of Olivier Gregoire.

Being in Maó Space, we have outstripped fads by making friends with time.
Facade & Exterior

The project is located in an old neighborhood of steel structured ceiling and dark streets. ofD has the original enclosure space transformed into ...