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- Photo credit: QIWEN PHOTOGRAPHY
Within a modern skyscraper, CCD curates a spatial journey woven from light and shadow, which feels like an immersive passage through time. At the elevator hall, copper cladding gently sweeps from walls to ceiling, evoking the graceful diffusion of ink across a scroll. The moment the door opens, an art installation emerges like a cocoon of light suspended in a fissure of time. Handwoven by 15 artisans using ramie threads, it unfolds as a fluid epic of transformation.
Co-created by CCD founder Joe Cheng and artist Huang Wanbing, the piece took over a month to complete, capturing the moment of a silkworm cocoon’s metamorphosis through an intricate weaving of metal frames and natural fibers. Stretching across the elevator hall, model display area, and urban lounge, it composes a trio of time, craft, and vitality, where natural materials encounter digital fabrication, and historic context undergoes transformative rebirth.
The model display area reawakens the city’s memory through an immersive narrative in shades of red. Red travertine, textured paint, and bricks sweep across the space, engaging in a continuous dialogue with red-hued old Shanghai villas long etched into the city’s fabric. Enveloped in unified a brick-red palette, the space becomes a vessel where bygone dreams are gently rekindled.
CCD skillfully infuses the real estate sales center with the warmth of daily life and aesthetic refinement. A professional-grade kitchen crafted from copper and red travertine evokes the intimacy of a private residence, inviting visitors to envision future moments of everyday life. Here, the experience moves beyond real estate display or transaction, unfolding a shared vision of lifestyle.
Hand-fired red bricks, crafted with contemporary sensibility, are meticulously laid throughout, where the rhythm of solid and void orchestrates a contemplative conversation between past and present. In this space, the west zone is a multifunctional space, integrating a bar, reception, and lounge areas. Through a contemporary design approach, CCD creates a sculptural fireplace as a visual anchor, imbuing the space with artistic resonance and fostering a quiet dialogue with the centerpiece artwork.
“The character and spirit of the horse have long been at the core of our design aspirations. A ‘horse’ leaps vividly within the space, yet soars beyond the mundane, carrying profound symbolic meaning,” says Joe Cheng.
Sogetsu Ikebana artist Xu Yanya joins this creative journey, curating rich indoor landscaping and floral art that breathes nature’s vitality into the space. In quiet resonance with the classical gardens of the old city, these elements subtly weave the refined elegance of Wu-Yue culture into contemporary everyday life.
Amber light flickers softly against the lattice windows of the side rooms, conjuring the tender memories of Shikumen’s bygone days, as if distant laughter of those returning home drifts through the alleys. Warm yellow lighting, layered with a palette of deep reds, envelops the space, gently transporting visitors from the metropolitan glamour of Shanghai to its cultural soul.
Even the restrooms are conceived with meticulous attention. The same red travertine used in public areas is sculpted into walls and countertops here, creating a strong sense of architecture. Vanity mirrors are subtly aligned to enrich visual interaction, with all else pared down in restrained simplicity. In mirrored reflections, time and space stretch into infinity, where reality meets illusion, and the present echoes the past.
