HYDS-plaza is a 17,000m2 office building located near the North 4th ring road. It will accommodate several IT-startup companies. The assignment asked for a design of the 800m2 lobby. The client envisioned a lobby where Chinese tradition and modern office-culture would blend.

The design follows the Chinese conception of an ideal lobby: a lobby should be large and to suggest it being large, it should be empty. This conception is translated in an architectonic concept in which the lobby wall is used to integrate all interior objects and functions that are required like tenant directory, seating, art, planting and lightning. To blend with Chinese tradition, the initial proposal is optimized in co-operation with a fengshui expert. This lead to specific shapes of the lobby-walls curves - round and smooth features promote the development and flow of positive energy - and to specific locations for red lights, paintings, fish bowls and ancient Chinese money. The wall colors are derived from an actual Beijing sunrise, aiming to provide an everlasting vital morning atmosphere.