Interwoven Order | Reflexion Interior Design | World Design Awards 2025

Reflexion Interior Design: Winner of World Design Awards 2025. The project is the corporate headquarters for a sports protection brand, with a total area of approximately 1240 square meters. From the early architectural phase, the interior design team worked in parallel with the building plan, translating the brand’s spirit—“resilient yet professional”—into a spatial expression.

The concept is built upon light and structure. Daylight from the building’s exterior was guided into the interior in sequence, unfolding across the reception area, corridors, meeting rooms, and workspaces along a continuous horizontal axis. Beyond mere zoning, the design sought to choreograph human rhythm and interaction, achieving harmony between rational order and organic flow, an atmosphere both grounded and approachable, mirroring the brand’s calm professionalism.

UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION／DIFFERENTIATION	The overall design draws inspiration from the essence of protective gear, solid yet flexible, precise yet warm. The designer adopted the metaphor of woven fabric, structuring the plan in three rhythmic segments according to the building’s columns: executive offices to the rear, an open workspace at the center, and a reception and quick-meeting zone toward the front. Transparency became the core. Interlaced elements of iron, glass, and display cabinetry create interfaces that allow visual extension and layered depth. Grille walls and built-in cabinets share structural logic, serving as both partitions and product showcases. Between columns, standing counters and glass whiteboards define spontaneous meeting zones, encouraging agile discussions. On the second floor, the meeting and exhibition rooms are connected by movable partitions, easily transforming between display and negotiation modes. Above, a light-diffusing ceiling membrane functions like a soft skylight, distributing brightness evenly without glare and creating a space that feels human-centered and breathable.
PRODUCTION OR REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY (AND MATERIALS)	The space is composed of a black, gray, and white palette, each tone serving a structural purpose. Black acts as the woven foundation that carries strength; gray harmonizes surfaces and establishes rhythm; white releases spatial tension, allowing light to flow freely. Flooring is laid with stone-patterned porcelain tiles, while walls and partitions combine glass, painted steel, and matte coatings, achieving a balance of rigidity and softness. Light reflects and diffuses across these varied textures, revealing the brand’s steady rhythm and professional depth through subtle material transitions.
SPECIFICATIONS / DIMENSIONS / PACKAGE / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES	The site is a self-developed, four-story structure covering 1240 square meters. The first and second floors serve as the main office areas, while the third and fourth floors are reserved for future expansion. Spatial organization was planned in tandem with the architectural design, minimizing post-construction modification and waste. Each floor is zoned by column grids, forming clear circulation and hierarchy. Vertical flow, via elevator and staircase, is optimized with natural light shafts, enabling air and light to circulate seamlessly between levels. This integration ensures spatial continuity while enhancing energy efficiency and user comfort.
CHALLENGE	As a self-built project on a private land, the process evolved literally “from nothing to completion.” The primary challenges lay in cross-disciplinary coordination and time management. The design team collaborated closely with architects, construction, and MEP engineers, pre-planning structural penetrations and light shafts from the foundation stage. Over two years, every phase—from construction milestones to material selection—was meticulously synchronized to align architecture and interior under a unified rhythm. The outcome not only achieved functional integrity but also realized an organic fusion of light, line, and structure, allowing every occupant—employee, client, or visitor—to experience comfort through clarity of light and movement.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION／FUNCTION	Both the owner and employees reported that the space fosters efficiency and smooth communication. The open circulation encourages spontaneous encounters, while the standing-meeting areas have become vibrant hubs of interaction. The semi-transparent display walls balance visual connection and functional separation, enabling each department to maintain focus without isolation. The light-membrane ceiling delivers soft, stable illumination, allowing sustained comfort and concentration throughout the workday. For visitors, the meeting and display rooms can be reconfigured on demand, offering a seamless transition between exhibition and negotiation, which visually embodying the company’s professionalism and brand identity.
FORM	“Both fabric and architecture are born from interlaced orders.” Using “weaving” as a metaphor, the designer interlaced lines, light, and structure like threads of a textile. Unlike the softness of fabric or the rigidity of steel, the two merge here into a unique aesthetic of tensile balance. The space speaks of pliancy within precision, bright yet composed, soft yet strong. When the light-membrane ceiling spreads its gentle glow across the steel frames and stone textures, the space resembles a fabric woven from luminous fibers, lightweight yet powerful. Shadows cast by the grille walls drift through the day like moving warp and weft lines. As employees walk between these shifting patterns of light, their steady rhythm reflects the brand’s essence: professional but never rigid, resilient with quiet strength. The office becomes an invisible layer of protection, one that shelters thought and work alike, weaving the brand’s spirit into every fiber of the space.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT	The project serves as the new headquarters of a sports protection brand, exploring the intersection of textile and architecture. From the earliest stages, the design team integrated with the building’s light and structure, translating the brand’s core values of resilience and professionalism into spatial form. Following the axis of natural light, the design connects reception, work, and meeting areas, allowing light to lead movement and interaction. The spatial rhythm is defined by the building’s column grid, while interwoven materials—iron, glass, and grilles—create partitions that are both distinct and connected. The second-floor meeting and display rooms can open or close flexibly according to use, expressing the brand’s adaptable and energetic character. The black-gray-white palette embodies tension and harmony: black grounds the space, gray balances structure, and white releases light. The moving shadows of the grilles become warp and weft lines of time itself, shaping a visual order that balances softness and strength. The name, Interwoven Order, symbolizes how space, like fabric, is woven—connecting light, material, and people into the living texture of the brand.

IMPACT /SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability informed every stage of the project. The building’s north-south window orientation maximized daylight and natural ventilation, reducing dependence on artificial lighting and air-conditioning. Partitions and ceilings used recyclable gypsum board with low-VOC eco-friendly paint, while all glass was coated with solar-control film and paired with adjustable blinds to manage glare and heat. Shared areas feature energy-efficient lighting and water-saving fixtures, and stairwells were designed to induce vertical airflow for natural convection, improving comfort and reducing energy load. These sustainable details were not adopted as labels or for acclaim, but to allow people and space to coexist over time, echoing the essence of protective gear: to safeguard the user’s rhythm and well-being through closeness and care. The space thus becomes a gentle form of protection, an enduring embodiment of both brand and humanity.