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CHAMBER 28 is an all-day entertainment complex by Bahuang Design, Valeria Pernice, Valentina Riolo and the Bahuang team, with lead architects Shirley Dong, Andrea Maira and Angel Gekov, for Beijing Taiying Jinhe Culture and Entertainment, built by Beijing Dongfang Xunteng. Every room is themed around an extreme natural phenomenon, but the organizing logic is temperature, the felt warmth or chill of a space rather than its physical thermometer. The client brief asked for distinctive private rooms that double as business-meeting and dining spaces, linked by a shared element. Bahuang grouped the rooms by temperature and paired each theme with specific materials and lighting. The journey begins at the cold end, in Aurora, where semi-translucent marble and matte brushed metals, animated by light, recreate a luminous polar sky. Rainbow Eucalyptus is the boldest experiment, mixing saturated colour while keeping a natural core to immerse guests in a tropical rainforest. As the temperature rises, Volcano and Blue Flame appear: the volcano room emphasizes texture and touch, while blue flame, the chemical combustion of volcanic gas, is rendered in deep, quiet blue with spherical blue lamps that simulate burning molecules and continue into the second-floor bar. Mirrors multiply the bar and stair into infinity. Magma is the thermal extreme: volcanic rock and red marble articulate both the plasma of molten lava and the stone it becomes when cooled, yet the room delivers warmth and comfort rather than heat. Lighting is custom-choreographed for each theme: in magma, light concentrates low with stage haze to recall dark-red lava surging through black smoke; rainbow eucalyptus uses laser grids that make the visitor feel lost in a rainforest; aurora and blue flame use pattern-shifting lasers that project electric skies above and blue fireworks on the floor. Long benches, custom-made by Bahuang own furniture brand Caozitou, settle into the public rooms like humorous, iconic objects. CHAMBER 28 is a deliberate departure for the studio, a multi-sensory journey across temperature and geography that carries rich entertainment functions within one spatial continuum.
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