The Bamboo of Traditional Chinese Handicrafts | Bamboo Floor

“ It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo”,The systematic research of bamboo flooring products is an innovative use of bamboo as a sustainable material in addition to the development of wood floor of Ugan concept.

Indigo Dyeing of Traditional Chinese Handicrafts | Indigo Floor

'Plants and trees know the season', indigo dyeing is a craft that follows the seasons. From planting, collecting, to blue making and dyeing, it gives tangible traces to the time according to the season and climate, and also makes every piece of indigo floor unique and full of imagination.

Another kind of laying order with a piece of floor in parallel space | Ugan concept image store in the west of Hangzhou city

Echoing the “order of laying a piece of floor in a parallel space” in the Taizhou exhibition hall, which opened recently, Ugan concept image store in the west of Hangzhou city is designed and upgraded on the basis of the original design concept of “four images and six emptiness”, and new floors have been made. The paving design of the building creates different three-dimensional spaces through the dislocation in the parallel direction, presenting “another laying order of a piece of floor in the parallel space”.

Intersection with "lacquer" in parallel space

On September 26, 2021, Ugan concept Taizhou Image store officially opened. Ugan concept and Rong Design Library, together with the Taizhou designers present, witnessed the debut of Ugan concept's first image store in Taizhou. “2021 the sharing session on Chinese lacquer research of traditional wood materials” was also held at the same time as the opening ceremony.

Laying order of a piece of floor in parallel space | Ugan Concept Taizhou New Space

Based on the original “four images and six virtual” design concepts, floors of different colors and specifications were laid. In the design, in the same parallel plane, the layered sense of the space is deduced through the orderly laying order, that is, the design concept of “the laying order of a piece of floor in the parallel space”.

"Twenty-four solar terms on the floor" won the 2021 British D&AD Wooden Pencil Award

From the beginning of Grain Rain in 2019 to Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2020, the sun's yellow longitude will change from 30° to 15°, and the Grain Rain will turn to 24 equal parts in 2020.We spent one year recording the phenological changes in different solar terms every 15 days, and collaborated with Quinsay Design to create “Revolution Around the light - The 24 Solar Terms on the Floor”.

Exhibition News | Ugan Concept's "An-Chair" Exhibited in China International Design Museum

Exhibition time : May 18, 2021-August 19, 2021

Ugan Concept's 'An-Chair' was awarded the Red Dot Award

The floor leaves the ground, completing a transformation from flat to three-dimensional.

The opening of Ugan Concept Chengdu image store & The Conference Of Wood Materials Research Results Of Chinese Traditional Handicraft Materials Research

On the evening of July 31, 2019, Ugan concept was officially settled in Chengdu. Together with nearly 400 Chengdu designers, industry elites and media friends, witnessed the birth of the first southwestern image store. The conference of ‘Wood Materials Research Results Of Chinese Traditional Handicraft Materials Research’ was also released at the same time at the opening ceremony, using the natural creation method to restart wood ‘color gene’, deducting a new material appearance.

Office Space of Ugan Concept ： Me and My Experience of Forest-Quality

As a wooden floor brand, Ugan Concept has met a designing aporia with huge amounts of wood available: how to construct “a space of wood quality” instead of “a wooden” space, making “the quality of wood” a state and an atmosphere rather than “a material” and “functions of the material”? It’s like being in the forest, we would not concern about trees in a materialized way; instead, we will have self-perception aroused by the integrity generalized by the surroundings in which trees grow: the sense of smells, the touch of winds, the spots of lights, the distance of sounds and so on. The perception won’t come from anywhere else. We may call it “the experience of forest-quality”.