No. 9 Rhapsody Office, Canton City Interior, Guangzhou Commercial Building, Chinese Architecture Images
No. 9 Rhapsody Office in Canton City, China
20 Aug 2020
No. 9 Rhapsody
Architects: 9Studio Design Group
Location: Guangzhou, China

The nature of design is to make something out of nothing. The studio space of a designer is the source of thoughts and concepts and a site of imagination. Therefore 9Studio Design Group designed their own studio, No. 9 Rhapsody, like the setting for a science fiction movie with a strong sense of prop. The inexhaustible imagination lays out the spatial need.

Variations and Expansion in Space

The two units yield multiple compositions and expansions in response to distant characters. The cubic unit is applied on the couch, blanket, and steps, where the cubes cover the multi-dimensions of up and down, left and right.
The stereometric layering defines the openness of multiple compositions on the first floor, such as the movable layout of the furniture, the salon area for a small lecture, and the gathering. The transparent door with a steel frame connects the inside to outside, implying the interlocking relationship between the two.

The black steel panels form the curvaceous unit and the layering of geometric shapes are distorted and divided like an organic morphology of water bar, information desk, and the long dining table. The working desk on the second floor combines wood joints with steel panels.

The structure looks like a butterfly th...