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GESpace Design on towards GESpace Design(contact: lijia@cdgedesign. This is a simple space, with its pure simplicityoverwhelmed with the power of solidity andcertainty; this is a complex space, embodyingsensitivity, fickleness and calculation, waning andwaxing among different people and during differenttimes, and exuding abundant spatial personalitycharm. Awhole set of spatial extension and transmutationlaws are constructed, stretching from outside toinside and from bottom to top. The connotation of“reset” in space refers not only to the emphasis andimplication of “this is the second store of craftbrew bar brand MEDISN”, but also to the possibilityof initiating new spatial connections regardless ofthe time and space: community, coffee, craft brew, music, vision, TATTOO, exhibition, culture, etc. The second store of Yaochang MEDISN, located at acurved corner of D 10 Tianfu Commercial Street in Chengdu’s Jinjiang District and adjacent to Hongji Lane fully covered with paulownia and ginkgoes, is amix of routine hustle and bustle and urbanlandscape. Special attention is paid to the community attributesof the space in the design of the entrance, rendering space closely embedded with thesurrounding environment and building up prominenttension between the interior space, the externalarea and the city street. There is no clear physicalseparation between the street and the external area, making this space an extension of the urban publicdomain and a guiding area serving as the transitionfrom community street to space. Such transition isespecially intimate and natural in the summer whenall the six foldable glass doors are open. The process of extending from the intimate and casualexterior area to the slightly high-profile interiorspace is also a natural process of transitioningfrom coffee to wine. Although the interior space remains semi-open, theuniqueness of the place is in the first placemanifested in the six-meter-high original building, where the vertical spatial tension interacts withthe horizontal boundary permeability, establishing aconcrete and intense presence. Substantial natural light pours into the space duringdaytime through the continuous glass doors thatoccupy the entire arc facade, taking on a delicategrayness under light reflection and diffusereflection. As a static language, the spatial block, silent and solid, extends across the internalboundary of the space, bringing about a spiritualfeeling that reconciles the rigor andstraightforwardness of the pre-industrial era andtruly correlates with the human and material world. There lies a hidden and imperceptible commitment tosimplification as a result of artisticmetamorphosis. However, upon entering a space onecan clearly sense the replacement of visualperception by a sense of touch that evokes moreperceptual power. The sequence, layers, texture andquality of space become the so-called objects of“The Eyes of the Skin “, where matter andconsciousness move from opposition to unity. The scale relation is magnified from generalexperience in the space with high ceilings and astrong sense of sculpture.