MOLE CHHA
摩乐茶
The network of virtual age is being woven in the last corners of the world. No matter in the world or China, the old business era has passed and products and brands of incalculable categories and quantities have flown freely over the network, left only one last thing that can't be traded online, authentic heart-to-heart communication.
Even the Internet has addressed the need for instant communication, people still instinctively yearn for real-live social contact.
Mole Chha is a dome tea shop crammed into a traditional business community as well as a social space that attracts trendy young people in the city.
Only aluminum and concrete are used as materials. Without changing the original walls, a giant egg is directly built in space. Round area is like bullseye in shooting that attracts the visual focus, also like a city square that welcomes sociable people. The walls in gradient red are circular and oblique which create a sense of security and separate the social area and tea-making area. The circular integral concrete chair draws closer the distance between people sitting around. Four-meter long brass lights sublimate the space into a giant art installation and leads people to the outdoor social space across the giant egg as they are set interlaced from the top.
虚拟时代的网络神经正在世界的最后一些角落铺织，不管是对于中国还是世界而言，旧商业时代已经翻篇，这是一条全新的数字河流，产品和品牌以不可估算的种类与数量在网络神经中自由地流动、溢出，只留给实体店的最后一样无法线上交易的商品——真实的、心与心的沟通。
即使网络已经解决了即时沟通的需求，人们依然本能地渴望真实的社交接触。
MOLE CHHA，一颗塞进传统没落商业社区的巨蛋，一个吸引城市时尚青年的蛋形社交空间。
仅用铝与水泥两种常见的材料，不改动原来的商业墙体，直接在空间内建造一颗巨形的蛋。贯穿始终的圆像是射击靶心般聚焦视觉，也像城市广场般广纳社交同好。圆形、倾斜、渐变的红色内壁营造出安全感，同时将作为主体的社交区域与制茶区域区隔开；环形的一体式水泥椅拉近围合而坐的人们之间的交往距离。四米长的铜管射灯将整个空间升华成巨型艺术装置，自顶部交错穿插而下，引导人们穿过巨蛋，走向室外的社交空间。
MOLE CHHA will not be the last experiment to explore. Before the technology flooding alienates us, what else can business do to provide a real social experience that makes the interaction between people more lively and interesting?
MOLE CHHA并不会是最后一个探索实验，在技术泛滥使我们变得疏远之前，商业还可以如何提供真实的社交体验，让人与人之间的互动变得更生动有趣？
Project Information
Project Name：MOLE CHHA
Project Location：1F, Grandview Young Plaza, Chengmentou Road, Chancheng District, Foshan, China
Element：Tea shop
Building Area：68 ㎡
Design Brand: INFINITY MIND
Design Period：November，2017
Construction Period：November - December，2017
Lighting Design：INFINITY MIND
Material Supply, Furniture：BENTU
Photograph: Cao Haochang
Text：Liu Jiaqi
项目信息
项目名称：MOLE CHHA
项目地点：佛山市正佳Young广场1F
项目类型：茶饮
项目面积：68 ㎡
设计团队：自由思考
设计期：2017年11月
施工期：2017年11-12月
灯具设计：自由思考
材料提供，家具：本土创造
摄影：曹浩昌
撰文：刘嘉淇
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www.infinitynide.com
联络 / contact：
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infinitynide2015@gmail.com (媒体 / press)
Instagram：@infinitymind.official
微信公众号 / wechat account：INFINITYMIND
