Wenke Lin

Chief designer of BDSB WuJie space design
Art director of the thatched cottage
Art director of Ueno Bookstore
Work experience: 2009-2019 chief designer of Guangdong Huaning Decoration Group

Now he is the chief designer of BDSD WuJie space design

• (China) 2021 G + awards global design elite competition top 30 in China
• (China) the 24th CIID China Interior Design Grand Prix in 2021 - Bronze Award
• (China) 2021 BDA Bauhaus Modern Design Award - Gold Award
• (China) 2021 NCA new business space Award "most beautiful bookstore"
• (China) villa space design award of the 10th nesting award in 2021
• (China) 2021 IWDA office space innovation design award
• (China) 2021 IAI global design award interior Award - Bronze Award
• (USA) 2021 American architect design award
• (USA) 2021 IDA American International Design Award - commercial space
• (USA) 2021 IDA American International Design Award - office space
• (USA) Muse International Design Award in 2021 - Platinum Award
• (UK) 2021 London Design Award - Silver Award
• London International Creative Awards 2021
• (International) 2021 APDC Burroughby space magician competition · Gold Award - comprehensive business
• (International) 2021 APDC berubi space magician competition · Honorary Award - institutional Office
• (International) 2021 loop design award
• (India) 2021 World Design Awards - office space
• (India) 2021 World Design Awards runner up commercial space
• (Korea) 2021 Asian Design Award - Gold Award
• (China) 4040 outstanding young designers in China (Guangdong) in 2020
• (China) 2020 red cotton China Design Award - the most beautiful art space design award
• (China) 2020 Jintang Award "annual outstanding work Award"
• (China) 2020 Bauhaus Award International Design Competition - Gold Award
• (International) 2019 International Design Forum IDF "speak for Chinese design" elite
• (China) the 10th Aite International Space Design Award in 2019
• (China) 2019 Jintang Award "annual outstanding work Award"

When I was a child, I liked to draw. Although the works are not outstanding, but are bold and lifelike. To encourage me, my parents enrolled me in art classes and got a big boost. When I entered the university, many students did not know how to choose a major, so I enrolled in interior design according to my hobby, thus embarking on the road of interior design.

BDSD is an organization specialized in providing comprehensive services for home and commercial design, with a high standard and high level elite design team. Our services cover diversified fields such as architecture and gardening, interior design, soft furnishing, lighting design, and etc. With rich design experience, industry-leading design concepts, excellent and advanced design management, and innovative design creativity, we provide exclusive and distinguished personalized services for our cooperative clients. Over the years, with keen insight and forward-looking perception, the studio has accurately grasped the changes in international design trends and human housing needs, continuously influencing and improving the professional level of interior design, and contributing to the healthy development of the industry.

Every morning, I come to the office to have a breakfast and a cup of coffee, and then prepare for a morning meeting to conduct a landing tracking for each project, improve the company's internal design case matters, and promote the progress of each design case of the company.

The main work every day is to plan new themes for new cases. When you are not busy, you can understand the market dynamics and development trend, grasp the design direction, and achieve the advanced design concept for the company. According to the assistant's arrangement, we will receive one consulting client every day and meet 1-2 designers in the afternoon to discuss the design trend, after which we will go to the construction site to dock the project and coordinate with other departments to make the related work go smoothly.

I rarely “design” anything in my student time because I spent almost time coping with the teacher's tasks. But Now I attach importance to everything around me. From ignorance to initial understanding, I realized that "design" has a kind of attraction. I don't know when I started to have a house in my heart, but it's a house that touches my heart. Interior design is a creation, in a way similar to a writer writing a novel or a painter painting. Now I can't live without design, and everything I do represents my growth.

I prefer designs combine practicality and aesthetics, which are two fundamental elements of good design and one cannot be without the other. For example, Beiyu Ming’s design philosophy in the Suzhou Museum. The landscape and architecture with strong traditional Chinese symbols and a sense of the times, makes it the most modern Chinese landscape.

Good design is not just visual enjoyment, and it must be felt and experienced. Design is not art, art is abstract, designers have rules. Good designers are innovative, pragmatic and aims to serve people.

I pay special attention to the extraction, transformation and abstract reconstruction of cultural elements. I extract the applicable materials and make them into the material for my own creation. At the same time, these extracted elements are transformed and abstracted. Based on the image, I reconstruct traditional Chinese art by combining modern composition consciousness. I use modern concepts and aesthetic qualities to reinterpret and discover the essence of tradition, find the interface between Eastern and Western cultures, and then effectively integrate them with the design work to form a design work with traditional cultural flavor.

The story of Ueno Bookhouse and the city of Huizhou begins with a disused old chimney. Winery boiler room was intact, towering old chimney, become a witness to the culture symbol of urban change, through the 70 time, the human and the nature gives the fresh vitality, random house named "ueno", also from the stack up, and gave birth to the shape of the natural environment, to day day up, natural growth, hope came to the house, You can feel the inner strength of enterprising, advocating nature and loving life.

The design team was inspired to connect the history and the environment with the architecture. With respect to the history, the library, from planning to reconstruction to reappearance, is always given a time property that flows in stillness.

The weather-beaten brick walls are combined with modern design elements. Walk inside, look directly into the past, and read the heart. Here, the boiler room is transformed into a mailbox of time. Every letter and postcard, in the most simple way of communication, is the most sincere and lasting confession in the city.

The symbiotic relationship between people and bookstores is guided by spirit and connected by emotion, which is the focus of Ueno Bookhouse's design. After the original sloping building structure has been corrected, the layout of the space has been reorganized, and the action track and emotional appeal of people in the bookstore will be reorganized and presented.

The symbiotic relationship between people and bookstores is guided by spirit and connected by emotion, which is the focus of Ueno Bookhouse's design. After the original sloping building structure has been corrected, the layout of the space has been reorganized, and the action track and emotional appeal of people in the bookstore will be reorganized and presented.

In the library of nearly 300 square meters, coffee and books are the main functional forms. On this basis, knowledge seeking, talks, leisure and other multiple experiences are integrated, striving to create a multi-cultural complex urban space.

The book house took half a year from conception to formation, during which the manuscript was changed several times, and the selection of materials has experienced professional challenges. "For example, the resin glass selected for this roof, whether it is difficult in technology or challenging in material selection, is rare in China."

It took a long time to build the whole bookstore, because many of the materials we used were used for the first time. For example, our acrylic, our space is limited, and there is only 200 square meters upstairs and downstairs. This bookstore is actually more complex than we thought, because the whole old building wall is inclined, so we need to correct it, Therefore, some places feel very crowded and some places feel very loose. Our bookstore is not purely selling books or reading books, but a compound bookstore.

Since childhood, I have held a strong curiosity about design, which originates from the influence of my father's engagement in planning and construction on me. When I was a child, I was often spontaneously attracted by some high-rise and iconic buildings. I was reluctant to leave from these buildings for a long time. My obsession with architecture has infiltrated in me intense passion for designand has motivated me to cherish dreams for space design. Emphasizing space planning and visual effect in creation, I uphold the design concept of paying attention to space planning and use, emphasizing function, and creating gorgeous visual effects. I attach great importance to the overall expression of spatial structure and interior decoration. After dividing the functional area as a whole, I lay more emphasis in the internal response of the facade and the plane. Therefore, in this design, according to the different functional areas, I made a new plan for the original spatial structure of the building, formulating a harmonious and unified cultural atmosphere through the cultural background wall in the restaurant and the cultural stone wall in the leisure area. With innovation as my focus, I am committed to taking design as a lifelong career. Sticking to my dreams for art, I am willing to accept new things. I also like to apply some new materials when designing. On the basis of requirements of Party A, I tend to add some relevant natural and cultural elements. In the future, I hope to become a space architect who pursues natural forms and whose designs can be integrated into life and nature.

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Art is not the same as design. Although most designers are art students, but art and design are very different. The essence of art is to express oneself and emotions, while design must take into account others, and its essence is to solve the problem between people and objectives. A rule to be followed in both architectural design and interior design. In some ways, design is a service industry. The biggest thing design and art have in common is that they both work with the same language - the visual language. So, do designers need to know how to draw? No. However, designers cannot be without aesthetics.

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When you are in a lonely or desperate stage of your life, please don't get lost and give up yourself. Maybe this stage is the end of your life, but you might as well try it. Maybe this is the beginning of your life and just on the right track, As the sentence in the book said: "everyone has the most difficult year in his life. It is this year that makes life beautiful and vast."

What's more: at the end of the book, "we are not all novels, nor are we all short stories. In the end, we become a collection of life works". In fact, every character in the book is like a short story. Everyone describes their own life. Everyone on this island forms a collection of everyone's life works.

"This bookstore, I hope, is the inheritance and protection of the city's history and culture, not the destruction and reconstruction. It should be integrated and unified with the environment as much as possible." Dispel doubts about the original intention of the architecture and design style of the library, as well as the root cause of "self-destruction" of technology and materials, "That's why this bookstore is named 'Shangye Bookstore', which is taken from the shape of chimney rising and living with the natural environment, and transformed into the meaning of day-to-day and natural growth. It is hoped that people who come to the bookstore can feel the internal power of enterprising, advocating nature and loving life."

The mentor who has inspired me the most is Kengo Kuma, a renowned Japanese architect. I have been especially inspired by his design project of "Sunny Hills Japan", which is a dessert shops of pineapple cakes (a popular dessert in Taiwan). The systematic construction method he used reminded me of woven bamboo baskets. Kengo Kuma made use of the wooden structure to build up a network of slats, enclosing a space of 297 square meters. Usually, two wooden strips cross to form a two-dimensional structure. However, in the process of wrapping the entire facade, he combined 60mm x 60mm wooden frames into a three-dimensional structure, forming a 30-degree angle between each other. The wooden grid lets the sunlight into the room naturally, while also preserving necessary privacy. After returning to China, influenced by my study experience in Japan, I created the "Yulin Thatched Cottage", a space for tea-drinking. Through the application of natural materials such as thatch and bamboo, the indoor scene is made under the shade of the trees, so as to better achieve a serene and peaceful atmosphere.

Doing the hard thing is rewarding.