Sliding to the left at the same time, Cai Wei designed cabinet blocks for cook’s home, which defined the use space and created scenic spots such as restaurant, study and bedroom
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She established contact with the designer by e-mail
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Cabana Jing’an Kerry Center store, which opened at the end of May, is Burgundy in appearance, with milky white translucent glass signboard embedded in the facade of the outer wall, and the interior gives a sense of hierarchy and interest to the “home” with a concise design language and flexible jumping dynamic line arrangement; Anfu Road store is located in a small road where fashion and fireworks coexist
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From the beginning, Cai Wei, an architect, was considering whether the established space arrangement was reasonable
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How does home / home design a building and an apartment into a “color cube”? Cai Weiyi, co-founder of buschmeyer + Cai architecture firm and a designer who was once shortlisted as the most influential architectural and interior design elite in China in 2019ad100, gave the answer to his works
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Cai Wei, the flexible play method designer of the unlocking family of the habitable magic cube apartment, has covered the apartment in the center of Shanghai with color block design
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When night falls, the two shops are like “lighthouses” shining faintly in the city, echoing cabana’s image of “a cabin by the sea”; Photography: Guo always slides to the left
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Cai Wei is good at deliberating on the arrangement and rhythm of materials, colors and elements in various scales of space, so that different materials, textures and colors can penetrate, intersperse and dialogue with each other
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She uses walls, hidden doors and cabinets to hide and blur the original structure of the store
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The polyester vinyl plate display wall is equipped with LED light strips to gently and evenly illuminate the interior
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Cai Wei, an architect, once told us in an interview that design is only a means, presenting an understanding of the world, itself and the design object
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She connected the two adjacent bedrooms, and the whole apartment had a more spacious and comfortable opening
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At the same time, there is no excessive decoration in this home, and all that will attract your strong attention have been deliberately “ignored”
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The designer Cai Wei (left) is the co-founder of buschmeyer + Cai architecture firm and was once shortlisted as the most influential architectural and interior design elite in China in 2019ad100; They sat on a colored wool carpet made by CC Tapis
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The key words of Zhongqin and bcsd joint office space are mobile spatial organization and clear functional zoning; Figure source: seemorestudio, a construction project operated by buschmeyer + Cai architecture firm, is located in the bustling Pearl River new town business district
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The flexible removable shelves provide a variety of display methods for books, and the small space can continue to bring freshness to people
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These magic boxes have enriched the original plain and direct space and defined a more free and smooth moving line
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Including the joint office space of Zhongqin and bcsd, three groups of multi-functional modules are placed in the traditional long and narrow office, and the transparent colored glass door ensures the communication and connection of various areas and modules
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In the jetlagbooks project of Beijing independent bookstore, Cai Weihe and his team used “light” as the main design element to complete the space layout of 40 square meters
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There are countless designers, but few can be called designers
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Cook is a rational man with clear logic
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It mainly serves frequent travelers and creative people, and sells books and magazines on travel, fashion and design
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These cabinets took into account a large number of storage functions and greatly kept visually clean and tidy.
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The pattern of three rooms and one living room presents a bright face in front of the transferor with the careful conception of the designer and the tacit understanding of the owner
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After the building is hidden, a square and orderly new layout is presented, Rich elements are self consistent in superposition
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There is no TV in the living room because it is too attached to the wall and route
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Cai Wei also often reminds himself not to be limited to “architect thinking” and try different design tasks across borders
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Figure source: jetlagbooks slides the multi-functional modules with different themes to the left, and the color scheme corresponding to the functional partition runs through all kinds of projects of buschmeyer + Cai architecture firm like a formula
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After Cai Wei, who is based in Berlin, came to Shanghai, the two met and decided to cooperate
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Brushed stainless steel sliding door, mirror revolving door, perforated brick wall, partition wrapped by color tiles, mixing and matching of materials, application of color blocks, construction of geometric lines and full introduction of light skillfully set off furniture works with different shapes to show strong inclusiveness
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In Cai Wei’s opinion, the interior designer provides a better space scheme
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Recently, she “twisted” a 200 square meter apartment in central Shanghai into a “color cube”
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The three seater Modular Sofa in the living room is from menu, and a group of aluminum alloy chandeliers are designed by Swedish designer Magnus w ä stberg
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The single two-story building with an area of about 550 square meters is like a transparent treasure box
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She learned that the owner lived alone
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Cai Wei transformed the original simple and upright pattern of the apartment into a look nested in color boxes with magical hands
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Designer Cai Wei uses color, material, texture and line layout space to create a diversified scene in line with modern people’s life
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Who “twisted” space into a magic cube? Buschmeyer + Cai architecture firm buschmeyer + Cai architecture firm was jointly founded by Philipp buschmeyer (PU Fei) and Caiwei (Cai Wei) in Berlin, Germany, and the Shanghai Branch was established in 2017; The company has carried out extensive design practice in China, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries; Figure source: buschmeyer + Cai architectural firm makes the space have the shape of “magic cube”, which is not the purpose of Cai Wei’s design, just as the essence of twisting magic cube is not a set of formulas, but to explore logic from flexible squares and discover the world contained therein
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It is a high-end commercial complex with hotels, shopping centers, shared office space and high-end business; Source: arch existjetlagbooks, founded in 2020, is an independent bookstore located in Sanlitun, Beijing
For example, buschmeyer + Cai architectural firm has sorted out a series of flexible and regular spaces for cabana’s two new stores in Shanghai, and the modules are connected by turning paths and arc nodes
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The owner cook (right) is engaged in real estate design and decoration related industries
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From the three cabana stores in Beijing and Shanghai, Sanlitun full-time restaurant y.not, 40 ㎡ independent bookstore jetlagbooks, Zhongqin and bcsd joint office space and other projects designed by buschmeyer + Cai architecture firm, you can feel the designer’s combing of the space at the moment of entering: rich layers, flexible, orderly and interesting
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The story starts with the owner cook accidentally seeing a private house project designed by Cai Wei
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She reads the plane layout as a drawing, combs the space and moving line first, and then defines and enriches it
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The owner hopes to simply return to the state of rest and chat here
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Based on the trust of “chemical effect”, the decoration span of two years, cumbersome remote communication and implementation are not so difficult
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The tea table combination from menu is made of white Carrara marble; The model 1095 floor lamp behind the sofa comes from astep; The shading curtain and transparent window screen are kvadrat, and the styles are maple0222 and frost 0106 respectively; The mini ï st vase on the shelf was created by designer Qian Jue
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