With the hoped to restore the century-year-old, Hankou Railway Station to the residence, the design team replicates the reception space with the iconic ticket-check gate: the old brown wood, the retro parquet floor, the arched window with the historical silhouette of Hankou and the mirrored ceiling, which creates an orderly and solemn time tunnel altogether. A waiting room the space is set up in order to restore the impression of being in the station further. A retro telephone ornament and slightly complicated tables and chairs create a tranquil moment. While waiting, sit down to write letters or read to feel the time passing in the phonograph melodious music.
Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge is one of the important historic landmark buildings, known as "the first bridge of the Yangtze River" with classic and eternal beauty. The design team extracts the decorative patterns on the door of the bridge and recombines them to express the essence of Wuhan and awaken the memory in people's hearts. It blurs the functions of space and eliminates the boundary sense between sales and display space, exploring new spatial functional modes and creating a social field with strong connection of the city's local culture in order to realize the recall of the times.
The ground floor of the vestibule adopts the parquet floor of the retro technique, whose simple lines outline the decorative French Window in Roman style. The murals about the changes of Wuhan are embedded in the water pattern glass, which forms a virtual and real echo with the current city scenes. A sense of thickness is reinforced along the aisles because the design team uses classic arch elements in the facade, windows, corridors and many other places to reproduce the classic Romanesque architectural style. The smooth arc and delicate fence interpret the life scene in the old era. The classical shape wall lamp and metal fasteners complement each other as the finishing touch of the space. The symmetrical stairway is equipped with bronze iron-like stair handrails, and the whole French Window with water pattern is depicted with twisted iron wire. The external change of light and shadow will cast an extremely gorgeous and rich significance on the historic ground in the interior, which further enhances the visual beauty brought by the space with the cooperation of nature. The anaglyph prototype of the hall comes from the Hankow Customs House, which uses the form of metal carving to carry out the artistic expression. The feelings of the local culture in the heart will be evoked by entering the space.
Some of Wuhan's iconic natural street scenes from the past and present a new look in a more contemporary mounting style.
Matrix Design is a design brand that aims to provide design services. It is a design agency brand with a scale of 300 people. In addition to providing integrated interior design of hard and soft decoration, "Matrix Design" is also developing towards the vertical integration of real estate architecture and landscape design, lighting design and sign design, household product design and production, new material research and development and production, and design project landing shooting, publicity and promotion services.