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establishes four different geometric a concentrated and profound spiritual Zhen Li, Yimeng Tang, Yijie Zhang,
languages: flat geometry, regular surfaces, experience, and provides Hangzhou a Xiao Wan, Jinyu Wan, Yiran Pan
free-form surfaces, and symmetrical platform for various new ideas, aesthetics, • Lighting Design: Xiaohao Guan
free-form surfaces. These correspond arts to be communicated and promoted. • Special Curved Surface Construc-
to the cocoon (the cradle when people tion: EGrow
leave their homes), classical temples Project Information • Overall Contractor: Beijing Jinghui
(human wisdom and rationality), nature • Project Name: M2 Art Centre Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd.
(essentially the humanisation of nature, • Project Address: Xingyao Centre, • Customised Space Music: Beijing
including an understanding of chaos), and Binjiang District, Hangzhou, China Beibai Music Culture Co., Ltd.
divinity (absolute grandeur), respectively. • Area: 712 sqm • Photography & Videography: SFAP
SpActrum understands the intentions that • Completion Date: January 2023 • Drawings & Illustrations Copyright:
come with form, allowing rich associations • Client: MREGINA SpActrum dw
and references to be established in the • Interior Design: SpActrum
space, creating a hierarchical relationship • Design Director: Yan Pan www.spactrum.com/en/projects/m2-
that extends the meaning of the space • Design Team Members: Hao Chen, art-centre
beyond the built space.
In terms of the second aspect, the GRG
and GRP shaping techniques meet the
possibilities of all curved surfaces, and
the use of white marble echoes classical
architecture, while the extensive use of
light films brings an endless sense of
space. SpActrum establishes a connection
between geometry and emotion through
geometric manipulation, which originates
from our deep collective memory as
humans and goes beyond the original
narrative, becoming our intuitive
response to the space.
M2 Art centre is a place with unique
spiritual characteristics and rich symbolic
meanings. Through metaphorical spatial
narrative and the use of different categories
of geometric forms under the control of
superb geometric mastery, the space is
endowed with ambiguous and multiple
meanings, with many metaphors and
references hidden in the pure geometric
forms. The result is a space that offers

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