PANORAMA / Forkid’s Club, Shenzhen, China
This space explores the concept of seasonal transformations, presenting a realm that stimulates children’s imagination while serving as a valuable means of escape
Words By Emily Martin
Images By Popo Vision, Gd Media
PROJECT INFO
Interior Design: PANORAMA Design Group
Client: Forkid’s Club Co., Ltd.
Completion date: Dec 2022
Area: 380 sq m
PANORAMA HAS delivered its latest unique space for family venue Forkids located in Shenzen, China. The design is centred around the need for parents and kids to pull away from the busy city life and enter an imaginative parent-child world, using the concept ‘Valley of Dreams’. The fun and vibrant space features zones, which take their cue from seasonal changes, to include integrated functions of play, learning, dining, and socialising to transport children from the grind of city life to wonder of make believe.
Situated in Shenzhen Nanshan Park, its Forkids project utilises the double height space with mezzanine levels to create vertical extension and spatial excitement for kid’s selfexploration. The design scheme uses curves to break the rigidity of the building periphery boundary and seamlessly connect all activity zones situated at the three different levels. The overall design language fills this imaginative landscape with colour, shape, scale and tactility which fulfil functional and emotional requirements of a play-scape and give memorable experience for kids and adults alike.
The building’s curved design promotes a feeling of fluidity between the different zones, freshening up in the Spring Valley cafe area, Panorama have integrated a variety of areas offering different enriching experiences, a sensorial experience at the Summer Beach area. Image Credit: Popo Vision, Gd Media
Taking a walk through this abstract landscape and you’ll enter the first zone, or ‘valley’, called Spring Valley. The greencoloured space pivots around the idea of socialising including a family café, with its ‘undulated hills depicting the beauty of spring season’. A giant tree-like observatory tower gives a panoramic view of the whole space. Different activities including children’s birthday parties and social events can be held. Fullheight greenery wall completes the leisure experience in this double volume space.
The second zone in yellow, known as ‘Summer Beach’, is a play-scape composed of rubber, plastic and rope for a multi-tactile experience. There is a beach-like open area with ball pit, climbing ropes and array of mezzanine levels connected with cocoon bridges.
The building’s curved design promotes a feeling of fluidity between the different zones, freshening up in the Spring Valley cafe area, Panorama have integrated a variety of areas offering different enriching experiences, a sensorial experience at the Summer Beach area. Image Credit: Popo Vision, Gd Media
Next Autumn Leaf, centres around the idea of ‘Anti-Gravity’, with a floating leaf structure in orange complete with ropes and trampoline. A place for hide-and-seek in this semi-enclosed space, as well taking part in ‘anti-gravity exercise’.
The building’s curved design promotes a feeling of fluidity between the different zones, freshening up in the Spring Valley cafe area, Panorama have integrated a variety of areas offering different enriching experiences, a sensorial experience at the Summer Beach area. Image Credit: Popo Vision, Gd Media
Finally, you reach the valley Winter Cave, which centres around ‘Digital Interaction’. This fourth zone is composed of two multi-purpose grey areas. There is an open theatre and an enclosed cave, which serve as quite corners complete with digital projection on the floor and ceiling for an immersive experience. In the open spaces the ceiling is covered with convex mirror discs that combined with distorted mirror walls to give vertical and horizontal visual extension and enhanced the dreamy touch. Different custom-designed three-dimensional cartoon characters give life to the whole space and complete the brand narrative.
The building’s curved design promotes a feeling of fluidity between the different zones, freshening up in the Spring Valley cafe area, Panorama have integrated a variety of areas offering different enriching experiences, a sensorial experience at the Summer Beach area. Image Credit: Popo Vision, Gd Media
Established in 2003, Hong Kong-based PANORAMA Design Group creates interior spaces catered around ‘unique story-telling spatial experiences’. With its headquarters in Hong Kong and local offices throughout China, the company’s project categories cover Hotel, Property Development, F&B, Retail, Kids, Health & Wellness, as well as several design accolades to boot. Inspired by the unique spatial characters of Hong Kong, PANORAMA’s design team adopts a boundary-crossing strategy to produce unique experiences and ‘multi-purpose/composite spaces’ for different typologies, responding to Asia’s rapid-changing lifestyles. It’s show-stopping interior spaces are the result of the studio’s research, location-based importance, market trends and budget requirements, and ensures each environment is assured of a dynamic, vibrant, and unique character in its own right.
