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Architects: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
- Area: 350 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: dormakaba, De La Espada, Hafele, Magis, Neri&Hu
Text description provided by the architects. Neri&Hu rehauls Opposite House’s BEI restaurant into “BEI Space” a multipurpose function room serving the increasing demand for meeting and event spaces in Beijing. While the typical function room in a hotel tends to be situated in dark enclosures with no natural light, the given site actually has an existing skylight. To fully utilize this asset, the design challenge becomes how to bring in as much light as possible to the space and how to subdue any sense of being underground. The resulting design concept, first, creates a landscape zone that is bathed in light, and second, inserts within it a luminous glass box.
