Beyond Architecture is a full-service architecture, planning landscape, and interior design practice. Founded by Song Mingzhong who studied architecture at the University of Westminster and worked at both dwp and Foster and Associates before starting his own journey with B/A/ which specializes in commercial, hospitality and residential design. B/A’s philosophy focuses on well-crafted and efficient solutions that are matched with client needs and budgets. Combining original innovative thinking with design excellence the goal is to integrate creative solutions to add quality and value to all the projects we undertake.

With 25 years working experience and an international team; B/A has completed remarkable work from urban planning to furniture design. Motivated by curiosity to investigate how innovation can work across projects, places and people.

The Villa is a typical Sudoku gride structure. The challenge is to ameliorate the basement to be a living space rather than a storage space. We introduce a courtyard into the central square with a skylight, bring nature into the middle of the house. It provides more interaction in between adjacent spaces, which not only horizontally but also vertically.

The transparent swimming pool creates ripples reflect effect to the basement space, it totally changed basement perception, give more chance to touch nature. The spaces are simple and clean. The warm bright color theme with easy access spaces which linked by efficient circulation.

As one of the leading developer in China, has taken a major step towards BIM intergrated design.

The entire design of the building focused on simplicity and abstraction. The challenge was to incorporate limited lobby space and the associated retail circulation system. The arrival experience for visitors begins with a greeting two-story visitor lobby space.

In order to match the modern, steel-framed building design, we introduce the vertical architecture langruage into the interior space to inprove the feeling of space hight. We use bright scheme to give a visual impact. The settle mirrored wall finishing to address the high tech industrial feeling. full hight glass facade blur the bundries indoor and outdoor space, inside out.

The Chaoshan, as well as the traditional courtyards in the south of the Yangtze River and even the whole of China, follow the layout of the “nourishing water merges into the hall from all directions”. The roof of the building rises inward, and rainwater flows into the courtyard from all sides.This spatial pattern also reflects a traditional form of social organization. People live in groups by family, and the courtyards surrounded by buildings become the center of people’s communication and social activities.

Several gardens of different sizes and different scenes are scattered throughout the cultural center, connected by straight lines. A series of different venues and spaces are placed in this place. This is both the smallest place in modern life and also a complete mapping of an objective world of growth. In this mapping, the traditional order still occupies the center of the hub position. Each small space in the surrounding growing up and overlapping each other.

The courtyard between the wall and the building leaves a large space for natural growth, creating the possibility of positive interaction between man and nature. The moment when the building is completed is also the starting point for the environment. Over time, in the cultural center, the proportion of nature and labor will change quietly. The interaction between man and nature will gradually change: children run under the tree, people lean on the tree,and people sit down and chat.

The Hair Salon has extrordanery space jorney which shaped by 7.5 meter cantilever mezzanine. Triangle set back entrance provide a friendly grey space connect the salon indoor and the outdoor pulic space. the 30mm thin curved partition not only beauty, but also divided the back of house and guest space, the partition created a narrow vertical space to change the guest perciptions by move arround from one place to another.

We consider the guest as part of color theme, the whole space in white and grey with limited black which build a clean and simply background flatter the guests. each of the hair station becames veraity stages, shown a dramtic life show when passenger walk pass though the salon from the street.

The triangle archtiecture design becames a great challenge to utilise the space in a effecient way. as a tranning school,we took the opportunity introduce the steped muti-function lecture hall, intergrated the folded roof as central sculpture, to enhance the trangle geometry design language.

ECO friendly, to introduce the nature light but block the solar by open the roof as roigami, it was greatly inprove the lecturing experence. It provided the interaction in between interior and roof top, but meamwhile to keep the privatcy versually.

The roof top functioned as fashion show for new hair style trend. also for student social and team work chill out space.

The project is located in Penglai,Shandong. a continuation of the Penglai water city on the west side of the river. At the end of the commercial street, the Peng Lai Pagoda is high point of end of pedestrian. The 45 degree commercial street and Penglai Palace and the sculpture linked together, to inherit the classical culture of Penglai disctrict. The architectural scale respect human values. Create variform spatial to experience a veriety a life space.

Detail design addressed the diversity of commercial landscape and enhance the culture of architectural. The perfect integration of landscape and architectural creates a facinating vertical spaces on the flat site, and bring the city walls with different urban characters.

In the design, strive to build a interesting space by following various business forms, and a great architecture based on function reuqest. It reshaping the local history and culture, inspired by the classic elements, such as porch columns, terraces and tiles, highlighting the simple architectural style from exquisite details.

The project is located at the junction of Yuhang District and West Lake District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, adjacent to Zhejiang University and Xixi wetlands. The complex, comprises shopping and offices, covers an area of about 71,000 square meters, with a total floor area of about 287,000 square meters and underground floor area of about 124,000 square meters.

Inherited and inspired by the architectural design concept of “shanshui within the city”, to consider the landscape as an extension of the building, treat the building as the mountains, the landscape as the water, and make the two interacting with each other, trying to interpret the harmonious and lingering Jiangnan space story. We come up with the theme ”water”, and name respectively seven different forms of water: shadow, waterfall, spring, dew, ice, fog, river, as the characteristics of each space.

The form and color of the landscape derive from the architecture, and creates a complete and unified atmosphere together with the building. At the same time, with the relatively high green ratio, we took full account of the characteristics of plants and created the high green biomass commercial landscape, and thus conducted a preliminary exploration in the ecological aspects of commercial landscape.Client WELLCREW

The Lilanz Creative centre is a dynamic multi-function district offering office, retail and residential spaces as well as a multi-function hall. Inspired by fashion and creativity the breathtaking mixed-use development juxtaposes traditional Jinjiang architecture with striking modernity and flowing surfaces. Contemporary interpretations lend the multi-functioning hall an impactful presence that at once surprises and delights. The scattered low-rise pavilions offer pedestrian-focused retail space, whilst the high-rise comprises offices of the Chinese fashion brand Lilanz, serviced apartments, and residential areas. From conception to completion movement was key; the building’s structure echoes that of a flowing piece of silk, a nod to the locations starting point of the Sea Silk Road.