Location: Beijing, China.

Architect: ARCHISTRY design&research office.

The owner of a space that combines office, leisure, presentation, and conferencing functions wanted to create a simple, elegant, and comfortable space that reflects the nature of his work and shows how they normally work in daily life. The space has two separate offices, and the longitudinal central passage is divided into four parts with four large-scale flat stone tables and fixed sofas to fulfill the diverse functional needs of the owners. The designer marked the entire wall with light ocher and distributed the separated parts to different levels of the office vertically. The largest sized main wall in the middle area metaphorizes the image of gables, windows, and doors on the facade, and embodies the nature of the design and properties of the inward construction. The space encourages users to a state of mild discomfort, allowing any vivid activities at any time to gain an emotional tension to feel and experience inner prosperity. The materials in the room are mutually contrasted on as well as dependent on each other to make their proper positions. By multi-scale mirror effects, people who come in here and look at the others could examine themselves by watching, working, meeting while coexisting with their own doubts.