‘3V by ICE an interesting mix of villas/business hotel in Shenzhen, China and the recently finished offices for Shenzhen Goldi Trading Co in Foshan, China.

The three villas form the heart of a live-in factory. Targeting business travelers and management, the idea was to create a hotel-like typology with a highly spatial public core, which connects through all three floors.

As the villas face mainly the factory buildings and with the absence of any view, we decided to focus all spatial experience onto the interior. Taking the ‘Miesian’ open plan concept and stretch it through all floors created an open plan, without walls, but distinct areas of function.

The spatial organisation is based on the developed program of BEL (Business // Entertainment // Living), where the public areas offer BEL cluster with a specific spatial quality. These areas are eventually connected through the 3-dimensional open plan.

The materialisation of the villas should follow the industrial character of the site. However, being rather luxury buildings, we researched on how to create luxury finishes out of standard construction materials. Exploring the adding of concrete with graphite, we managed to develop a tiling system, which creates a dynamic reflective effect, similar to the amethyst. The exterior will employ different stages of this mixture: From rough, 3-dimensional tiles to embedded and polished floor finishes.’

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