Beijing Zhongshuge Lafayette store interior, X+LIVING Chinese Architecture Images
Beijing Zhongshuge Lafayette store design
30 Oct 2020
Beijing Zhongshuge Lafayette bookstore interior
Architects: X+LIVING
Location: Beijing, Northern China

Photos by Wu Qingshan
Beijing Zhongshuge Lafayette store interior
It?s the second time for Zhongshuge bookstore to land in Beijing. This time it joins Lafayette department store, where the classical gardens and the reading space collided from three different perspectives in the fashionable commercial area. With reference to the expression techniques of Chinese classical gardens, the designer connects various functional areas with different formats of space layout, and sketched the flowing path for consumers to explore.
The bookshelves are both a canvas and a wall, making the door porch like a painting unfolding gradually. In the doorway, it is faintly visible the depth of the space, which makes people can?t help but walking into the bookshop for exploration.

In the conceptual area, the designer creates an elevation difference transformation by using the ladders to make the space pattern fluctuate and even the wandering walk will present a rhyme. Using perspective relations to create a visual illusion experience, the arches are nested and intersecting, and all of the beautiful sceneries are within eyesight. The charm of the changing scenery in the classical garden not only appears everywhere, but the refraction of the mirror surface also...