K1Y Design Lab / K1Y Design

K1Y Design Lab is located along the Zhonghe River in Hangzhou, which is a complex commercial space that combines design studios and boutique coffee shops.Borrow the green vegetation of the landscape river and express it as a space decoration within the building. Excavated in the Tang Dynasty, the trail along the river is accompanied by traces of history, showing green plants of different colors, interlacing light and dark. Let this exhibition board from the cityscape have a long aftertaste.

"Structural Botany" is a series that extracts geometric vocabularies from the diverse characteristics of plants, reinterpreting them through artificial structures and modular components. It explores the blurred intersection between natural forms and human-made construction.

Nestled across the water from a nature preserve, this 928-square-foot project sits just minutes from downtown Austin. At the bottom of a bluff, fifty feet below the surrounding neighborhood, the project is sheltered by large trees along the secluded waterway that is only navigable by canoes and kayaks. Reaching the site is a journey descending an extensive staircase, passing through a natural stone grotto, down into the wetland habitat.

A Spatial Encounter Between Japan and Sweden, Maja Bernvill Designs the New Misshumasshu Restaurant in Stockholm. The transformation of the historic Birger Jarl Passage brings it into a new era. As Misshumasshu reopens in its new, large-scale incarnation, it does so in a setting where architecture and gastronomy engage with the weight of the site's history. Architect Maja Bernvill is behind the new design of the restaurant.