Runxuan Textile Office
Project Background

The project is located in Zhangcha, which is a famous textile town in Foshan, China. Most villages here have an industry park, and textile workshops are scattered throughout the town. Rationale International ? Masanori Design Studio was entrusted to conceive a workspace for Runxuan Textile, which hoped the new office could help enhance its brand image and competiveness in the market. The space occupies the first floor of a property. The façade of the entire building are available for the brand, but the property owner required that façade renovation should ensure ventilation of the second floor and respect the existing tile cladding.
Photography by © Yun Ouyang
Interweaving of Straight Lines and Curves
The curvilinear bottom of the building implicitly expresses the flexibility of cloth. The curve of the front façade is consistent with the logo of the brand, thereby creating a visual highlight and impressing visitors at first sight. Both the exterior and interior are dominated by white hue, as pure as cotton. The large French window reveals the pure interior, which is endowed with a sense of layering by spatial structures.
White aluminum bars extend from the top of 2F façade to the ceiling of the first floor. Looking like dense, orderly rows of yarn on looms, those neat lines envelop the entire building. The bottom ends of external aluminum bars form an undulating curve, which echoes with the curving form of the interior ceilin...