2025 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

Seeing the mountains as mountains

Entrant

Cao Xudong

Category

Interior Design - Residential 

Client's Name

N/A

Country / Region

China

I. Lower-ground sunken garden
1. Light re-sculpting: turn the subterranean floor into a vessel for daylight.
2. Air circulation: weave an underground “breathing” ecosystem.
3. Spatial osmosis: a light corridor that dissolves the line between inside and outside.
4. Ecological coupling: micro-climate regulation through curated plant communities.
II. Wandering stair loop
The staircase is no longer a mere necessity; it becomes the pivot of movement, fostering interaction, eliminating dead angles, and existing as a piece of art that elevates daily life.
III. Entry vistas & art inserts
The axial view at the front door (level 0) and the art piece inside the lower-ground vestibule echo the owner’s inner landscape—“first the mountain is a mountain, then it is not, yet in the end it still is.”

Credits

Cao Xudong
Cao Xudong
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