LEAFY SHADE

location	Shanghai China
Use	Office entrance
Floor area	4,000sqm
Client	Shanghai Haitai real estate
Design period	Mar 2006～Oct 2006
Status	Completed
Other	Award :2009 China modern decoration :2009 Japan SDA design award excellent prize :2009 Japan SDA design award special prize Lighting designer: Kakudate Masahide lighting architect and associates，Signage design: uji design，Collabolate with A-I-SHA

The building is facing an intersection in a big street as well as an intersection in a small street. The entrance of the building is facing the one in a small street. The good old people live on the small street, and there are beautiful trees. I took the entrance hall as the "expansion" of the small street, then I created an entrance hall as if the beautiful trees outside are continuing to the inside of the building.

And about this entrance hall, there are some space problems as using office’s one. For example, the entrance hall was too small, and some common spaces were too dark.
So, we created a forest in the office building to make an impression of large and cozy space.