架构师提供的文本描述。新设计集体位于上海郊区一个名为青浦的小镇。奈里

Text description provided by the architects. The new Design Collective is located in the outskirt of Shanghai in a town called Qingpu. Neri&Hu inherited an existing building and was given the task to completely redesign both the exterior and the interior without demolishing the existing structure. Neri&Hu’s concept was to cover the existing building to create a new exterior identity and simultaneously fabricate an introverted spatial platform to create a new identity for the Design Collective, a group of avant garde furniture retail initiative in the city.

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现有的建筑已经完全覆盖了一个不透明的图形包装与碳纤维面板，以创造一个内向的空间条件，展示家具的视觉和体验。

The existing building has been completely covered with an opaque graphic wrapper made with carbon fiber panel to create an introverted spatial condition to showcase furniture both visually and experientially.

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主要入口是一个大型的钢漏斗，作为从城市环境到展览空间的过渡元素。入口管的形状也作为强调到达3层展厅的一种手段，在这里，参观者内向的旅程开始了。

The main entry is characterized by a large steel funnel, serving as a transition element from the urban context to the exhibition space. The shape of the entry tube also serves as a means of emphasizing the arrival into the 3 story exhibition hall where the visitors introverted journey begins.

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环绕主展览空间内部的楼梯带领游客在多个层次的展示中体验家具的不同空间关系，并从不同的优势点和零售展示的偷窥片段中观看。这一旅程是突出的，因为游客爬到更高的画廊水平，在屋顶上的七个大开口，以使日光进入展览空间，同时产生一个瞬间的视觉释放内向的展览环境。

The staircase wrapping the interior of the main exhibition space leads the visitor throughout the multiple levels of display where the furniture can be experienced from varying spatial relationship and viewed form different vantage points and voyeuristic snippets of retail display. This journey is accentuated as the visitor climbs higher through the gallery levels by the seven large openings in the roof which serve to allow daylight into the exhibition space while at once generating a moment of visual release from within the introverted exhibition environment.

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设计共和国青浦店位于一楼，总面积2000平方米。设计共和提供了独特的产品集合，由世界上最优秀的设计人才与许多外国和本地设计师合作，创造出新的中国现代美学产品。

Design Republic Qingpu store is located on the first floor, with a total area of 2,000 sqm. Design Republic offers a unique collection of products created by the world's best design talents collaborates with many designers both foreign and local to create products that will explore a new modern Chinese aesthetic.

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设计共和国代表着新的生命和风格的诞生。在它的基础上，它是一个生命的共和国，它通过它与居住对象的关系来创造意义和理解。寻求探索人与他们在生活中使用的简单物品之间的关系-一个盘子、一个茶杯、一把椅子；就在这里，我们发现了日常生活的美丽。

Design Republic stands for a new birth of life and style. At its foundation, it is a republic of life - life that creates meaning and understanding through its relationship to objects of habitation. Seeking to explore the relationship between people and the simple objects they use in life - a plate, a teacup, a chair; it is here where we discover the beauty of everyday life.

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设计共和国也是风格的共和国，它在设计、零售和商业观念上创造了新的意识形态，体现了当代中国独特的美学。它跨越传统边界，将新旧、传统与现代、富丽与朴实融为一体，最终创造了一个动态的设计平台。

Design Republic is also a republic of style - style that creates new ideologies in design, retail, and merchandising concepts embodying a distinctive aesthetic for contemporary China. It crosses traditional boundaries to merge old and new, traditional and modern, opulent and austere, to ultimately create a dynamic platform of design.