Joyous Spring Wellness Center / Soong Lab+

The Joyous Spring Wellness Center, designed by Soong Lab—founded and directed by architect Wang Songtao—is located just beyond Beijing's Fifth Ring Road, with a site area of approximately 8,200 square meters. As a project of adaptive reuse, it is centered around water as a core element. Through structural adjustments, interior reconfiguration, and the addition of new programs, the design revitalizes an idle building, giving it renewed purpose and spatial significance.

Tucked within the quiet residential fabric of Yuyuan Road in Shanghai, a compact but striking restaurant suddenly punctuates the street. Oversized signage and a vivid palette introduce a character that is both flamboyant and shy—eagerly presenting its quirks to each guest who steps inside. Within, a sequence of sensory encounters unfolds, turning everyday dining into a theatrical experience.

Implanted on a narrow and deep plot of 10 x 60 meters in Jardim Paulistano, Casa Praça is organized into three blocks interspersed with patios. This configuration takes advantage of the lot's geometry to distribute the spaces functionally and create open areas that enhance the entry of natural light and encourage social interaction.

Two pavilions, structures whose size and perforations evoke the forms of stubble burners or small tool sheds. Roughed out preliminary spaces. Open-air rooms squarely-aligned to the existing traces of the irrigation channels that form their base and water the northern fields of Valencia.