WASHROOM 6F DEJI PLAZA Ⅰ

The sixth-floor washroom at Deji Plaza Phase I in Nanjing is a 2022 interior renovation by One Design (Li Xiang, lead designer; Wu Feng, technical director; Luo Ziyan and Hou Yanjun, project directors; with SFAP photography) for Deji Group, at 18 Zhongshan Road, Xuanwu District. The designer refused to treat the restroom as purely functional and proposed a Sanctuary Garden concept, using the circulation space to accommodate a nursing room, accessible toilet, medical first-aid room and parent-child toilet, so that everything from make-up touch-ups to children's toileting is cared for. The scheme echoes Deji's longstanding humanism, from its early metro connection to its child-anti-loss system launched in 2015, embedding care beneath ritual and aesthetics. The garden motif is a tribute to spring receding in an age of environmental crisis: a green ecological-art garden that erupts from a reinforced-concrete department store and awakens the buried garden within each visitor. Abstract geometry drawn from flowers, plants and insects is recomposed into ornamental patterns that run from the facades through the floor and into the depth of the space. Green wallpaper forms a first skin, overlaid with curved grilles as a second skin, with greenery planted in the cavity between; symmetrical arrayed design and a rich internal frame give the hall a gallery-like dignity, while organic lines soften the natural theme with refined luxury. Large sculptural sofas grow like clusters of flowers from the floor, a vivid symbol of condensed life where parents, friends and couples wait. Toiletry counters are inspired by garden fountains, with green marble basins at varied heights for adults and children, and wood-veneer and champagne-gold grilles repeat the double-skin idea at human scale. Custom vanities include wireless charging, soft rounded corners appear at every scale, and the accessible toilet offers touch-controlled doors, multi-directional grab bars and tilted mirrors. The project reframes the restroom as an urban sanctuary, questioning decorative orthodoxy in high-end retail interiors.