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                 Architecture is an ‘ancient’ industry,
             which is also a subject in art for thousands
             of years. “Today, we are standing on the
             shoulders of those great architects in his-   Fun
             tory.  We  study  architecture  at  university       TO BREW
             and continuously get inspired from every
             little thing in our daily life,” Ma confessed.
             “Cold and warm, they might be just numbers
             of temperature in physics. But when it is
             about your feelings, you will find that cold-
             ness and warmth can have two different
             systems to ‘trigger’ your senses.” As a de-
             signer, Ma uses an architecture language
             instead of numbers to show the two oppo-
             site elements in his design.
                 “We currently work on a collection of
             houses in a smaller size with both cultural
             and business values,” Ma shared. “We tend
             to spend more time in such less ‘popular’
             yet long lasting structures in a slower pace.”
             To Atelier Lai, it seems that the value of
             design is never about the instant populari-
 Cold Pavilion and Warm Pavilion (Photo / Xuguo Tang)
             ty in this Internet era...




 Inspired by the Past and Life                                                               1"3"--&- 1-64

 In 2017, Atelier Lai completed a guest-
 house project for vRetreats in Zhejiang
 Province. The guesthouse features a coffee
 shop, which is a place for people to take a
 rest while enjoying the surrounding scenes,
 tagged as Warm Pavilion. On the opposite
 side, there is a place here tagged as Cold                                *ODMJOF                   "3$
 Pavilion, where the bubble pool is located.
 The contrast in color, material and light
 allows the space user to feel the difference
 between coldness and warmth with their
 senses. Ma shared: “To us, this kind of
 projects is more flexible.” In vRetreats,
 Atelier Lai aimed to showcase their under-
 standing and expression of warmth. “If you
 want to show something new in your design,
 you have to continue to learn, research,    Clan hall  (Photo / Xuguo Tang)
 explore, develop, and try, regardless of
 whether it is right or not,” Ma suggested. This
 kind of process and exploration can be seen
 through their projects in the past as well.


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