Chinese architecture and design practice AD ARCHITECTURE has designed a private clubhouse featuring earth colors and geometric components with tunnel-like spaces in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

Named Fietser International Private Clubhouse, the 1,000-square-metre interior incorporates natural hues and materials, including stone, wooden flooring, handmade paint and wooden veneer.

“We are creating some visible illusions, including conflict between the falling and the floating, dialogue between roughness and smoothness, coexistence of freedom and order, and asymmetrical symmetry. Through these illusions, emotion and rationality complement each other in the space. What AD ARCHITECTURE seeks is a kind of quietness in the bustling city, as well as harmony between opposites,” said Xie Peihe, Chief Designer of AD ARCHITECTURE.

Background

Fietser International Private Clubhouse is a socializing venue for elites in the financial sector in Shenzhen. The design goal is to create a tranquil spatial environment for interaction and bring users closer together.

Clubhouse is a venue for reception and negotiation, yet also emphasizes privacy. It is a container at first. Through the interaction with users, it transforms into a place with both certainty and uncertainty. The space is enriched with freedom and accidental stories when people’s communication and purposes arise here, though its form is fixed. These spatial potentials are exactly what AD ARCHITECTURE tries to unlock.

Irrelevant correlation

Spatial functions are performed inadvertently. The design gives way to the process when stories unfold in the space, to shun undesired disturbance. In such a harmonious space, users feel surprisingly comfortable while socializing with others.

Here, objects encounter light in a subtle way. Light and objects are mutually dependent, both of which are neither independent systems nor opposites. Although its form cannot be altered by functions, the space plays the role of light maker. The light plays with objects, thereby triggering some fresh spatial emotions.

Uniqueness

Users may not be surprised by the design expressions with exclusive “neutrality”. But details of spatial scenes seem to be able to evoke a tinge of pure sensitivity. AD ARCHITECTURE aims to invent a personalized private clubhouse on the basis of a “universal” concept.

Explicit restraint