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Curio Residence / Waterfrom Design

Pratik Mour — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:00:00 +0000

The relationship between our client and us spans more than two decades. Over the years, we were invited to shape three spaces across his life. In 2015, he acquired a fourth property and once again called on us to take measurements. Then, mid-process, he paused. He wanted time to clarify his vision for the space before moving forward. In the years that followed, he would occasionally browse bookshops, pulling out architecture and design magazines whenever he spotted the name "Waterfrom" — leafing through the pages, catching up on our latest work, then quietly returning the issue to the shelf. He was waiting. Perhaps for his own ideas to crystallize; perhaps for us to grow into the partner he needed. We knew nothing of this silent vigil. We simply kept moving forward, one project at a time. Then, in 2023, the phone rang. "Let's begin."

Waterfrom Design's Office / Waterfrom Design

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Throughout eight months of design and on-site work, we realized that what truly matters is not the completeness of drawings, but the intuition shaped by being present. Around 70% of the layout was defined early on, while the remaining 30% was deliberately left without a set function—allowing light, behaviors, and moods to participate in forming the space.

River Isle House / Waterfrom Design

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Set along the banks of the Tamsui River, this vacation home opens itself to sweeping views of water and mangroves. Curved forms frame the landscape, softening the boundary between inside and out. The design is guided by a simple question: how can architecture sustain a conversation with nature? The answer lies in connection—between people, between light and shadow, between private retreat and shared life. By resisting rigid definitions and leaving space for flexibility, the house is designed to grow and evolve with time.

(beanroom) / Waterfrom Design

韩爽 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The site is set back 4 meters from the street, with a 6-meter-high, 3-meter-wide banyan tree in front, obscuring the shop from view. Consequently, the client has requested ways to "open up" the space to draw consumers into the shop. Additionally, they seek to develop a sustainable and profitable business model with limited resources.

Shimei Nature Experience Hall / Waterfrom Design

Collin Chen — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Forget time, heal your life with architecture - This project is located on Hainan Island, which boasts a long coastline and vast, lush vegetation. Waterfrom Design believes that the future community center, which is currently a sales center, should serve as a hub for connecting nature/civilization, coast/land, and traditional/modern lifestyles. The goal is not just to design a space, but to create a spiritual destination like an island gathering place, characterized by a venue that welcomes a wide range of life experiences.

Yangtze Opus Wuhan Art Museum / Waterfrom Design

Xiaohang Hou — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Vertical Lifen. Affection in all directions by Simplicity and Zigzaging. Lifen in Wuhan resembles a lane in Beijing and it is the essential cultural symbol in the city. The journal depicts the common people’s lives, mixed culture in the settlement, as well as the rise and fall of the population in the places. It shows the mutual prosperity of building and life. At Wuhan beach with the combination of the present and the past and western and eastern culture, by modern language, Water from Design reconstructed Life. Through the horizontal extension of traditional compound houses and vertical characteristics of western buildings, it analyzed and reorganized vertical and horizontal dimensions and reconstructed the modern space in the lanes.

ANEST Collective Store / Waterfrom Design

Collin Chen — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 02:00:00 +0000

In SHANGHAI XINTIANDI where the past meets the present, if you are looking for a site that tells unforgettable stories, the map must be tagged with the fashion brand - ANEST COLLECTIVE. Neither a well-known boutique nor a street fashion brand, ANEST COLLECTIVE is a unique Italian luxury brand that offers high-quality ready-to-wear collections. Instead of following the bustling trend of fast-changing silhouette and color preferences, it remains low-key and focused on the aesthetic vision that is accumulated through life, and creates a narrative space through the fusion of the elements of clothing, artwork, furniture and architecture This is the place where people can enjoy the grace and freedom of aesthetics.

Ideal Gas Lab / Waterfrom Design

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:00:00 +0000

With pressure of environment and change of temperature, the substance can be transformed into different states: static solid state, fluent liquid state and gaseous state which is both static and fluent. This is not the opening remark of a physics class. It is the start of design of a brand-new office of Jing He Science, a technology company which sells high-tech gas.

Tea Community Center / Waterfrom Design

Collin Chen — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:00:00 +0000

Doko Bar Shenzhen / Waterfrom Design

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Pop artist Andy Warhol once said, “In the future, everyone has a chance at 15 minutes of fame”. In this age of Internet celebrities, people eat not just to satisfy their appetite, but they also use the food and the environment to show off themselves. Where Doko Bar located in Nanshan District of Shenzhen, is a representative Internet celebrity dessert shop. Waterfrom design, originated from the 15-minute theory, considers the eating process a show. From the moment our guests step inside our store, take a seat, and from the moment we prepare our dessert to deliver our dishes and our guests taste our food, every step of the way is like tight-coupling chapters of a play. Everyone in the store becomes a member of the platform. The space is a laboratory in which people taste their food.

Slowly / Waterfrom Design

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Jinan is known as the “Spring City” for its many springs since ancient times, with a landscape of lakes and water being a nutrient of life for the city and also a source of cultural enrichment. The copywriting takes springs as a starting point to conceive the spatial pattern and hopes to interpret the fluent posture that the flowing water emerges from the stone crevices, sparkling. Meanwhile, with abundant urban landscape culture as the venation, the design of aqueous phase starts from the concept of museums, with the hope that the space created cannot only display objects but also bring viewers a pure enjoyment of architectural strength and aesthetic feeling. The unusual special scale and viewing method make the intuitive experience mix with the exhibits to be interwoven into a unique cultural memory and offer more in-depth field implications.

Way of Seeing / Waterfrom Design

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Gaze Turns Distance into a Lingering Aftertaste
Unlike other emerging areas in Shenzhen with new buildings springing up like mushrooms, Luohu District is a relatively old area. Despite modern and innovative buildings rise from the ground, its history and culture pervade daily life. In the context of rapid changes and the new and the old mixing together in the city, the design of aqueous phase centers on the spirit of an exhibition of a museum.

Hanyang Guiyuan Temple Sales Center / Waterfrom Design

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 21:00:00 +0000

Each city is given unique character by its history. Unfortunately in China most cities are losing their features after reconstruction and taking on almost the same image. It is imperative for urban real estate developers to retain cultural heritage of the city through balanced and appropriate design solutions.

Filter Life / Waterfrom Design

罗靖琳 — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 22:00:00 +0000

The brand specializing in water dispenser production and sales was given a new younger and more fashiona-ble image under the management of the second generation ownership. Waterfrom Design transforms the per-spective of space in the 30-year factory as if it were water.

Living Smell / Waterfrom Design

胡天宝 — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 03:00:00 +0000

The lady of the house, who designs wedding invitations for a living, has a soul molded by plate making, compression molding, laser engraving, and hot foil stamping, has, in the fragrance brand Mad et Len, found the mesmerizing texture that came of limited and simple ease of handicraft. The space became a fragrant art, where the warmth of life become the best way to extract the smell of memory, and allows the habits of the owners, such as triathlon and reading, to become ethereal and spread into the air. The raised multi-layer bookshelf walls and display racks refines the personality and images of the residence. The simple colors and handmade work from the artisan aids the feel of the media such as hand painted and steel brushed veneer materials to replace the clean mechanical feel. On various white background materials, the line and color blocks are fermenting in minimalism, creating a division of order and spatial displacement.

Molecure Pharmacy / Waterfrom Design

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 22:00:00 +0000

The owner of this project is a post 80s from a pharmacy family, as the third generation, he hopes to subvert the traditional image of pharmacy and melt it into the diversified modern environment. Just like MOLECURE is split and reorganized from words "Molecule" and "Cure", while approaching to the design, we returns to the original purpose of pharmacy- extracting molecule from nature to synthesize healing drugs. Thus we get the idea of building a space which we named "green in the lab", combining the seemingly conflicting qualities of "primitive" with "technology", just like new compounds formed due to molecular bombardment.

Vivid Color / Waterfrom design

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:00:00 +0000

Design Inspiration

Le Plan Libre / Waterfrom Design

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

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