Glassbrick

This is an ice cream specialty shop located in the Dongshankou community of Guangzhou. In several rounds of discussion with the owner, who is also an ice cream maker, we found that her vision for the shop was contradicting: on the one hand, with social phobia, she hoped the shop to be an enclosed space that can give her enough security to focus on her work; on the other hand, she also wanted to create a cozy environment that allowed her to engage with the customers to talk about the making and the flavours of the ice cream and make friends with ice cream lovers. Our design concept emerged from this contradicting emotion of fear and curiosity of the outside world. ZHONGZHI ZHONGZHI Located in the corner of the ground floor lobby o... More