Project name: A Folding Residence Location: Bantian Street, Longgang District, Shenzhen, China Design company: GE Design Designers: Zhang Yufan Area: 85 m2 Photography: Ha Da Completion time: January 2018 Main materials: Floor tile（GABO), Bathroom accessory（KOHLER), Range hood (FOTILE)

项目名称：一个折叠式住宅地点：深圳市龙岗区班田街：GE设计师：张玉凡地区：85平方米摄影：HA Da完工时间：2018年1月主要材料：地砖(GABO)，浴室配件(Kohler)，抽油烟机(Foty)

We might don’t know whether the parallel world exists or not, but if it does exist, we’re not sure it is completely parallel to our world, or it is mirrored or rotated. The Netflix TV series Stranger Things, and the film Inception which came out strikingly many years ago, gave us some new perspective to realize and explore the world and provided us with diverse inspiration.

我们可能不知道平行世界是否存在，但如果它确实存在，我们不确定它是否与我们的世界完全平行，或者它是镜像的或旋转的。Netflix的电视连续剧“奇怪的事情”和电影“盗梦空间”(Inception)在很多年前就出现了，给我们提供了一些新的视角来认识和探索这个世界，并为我们提供了不同的灵感。

This time, the client came to us giving a brief of building a unique house without losing the basic needs of a three-person family. After investigation, we found that the house is located in Bantian, Shenzhen, a newly booming zone. Due to high price of real estate, the house’s original layout turned out small but complex and “multifunctional”, in other words, it was divided as a mess. Therefore, the core problem was how to improve the quality of life with tightly integrated spaces and enjoyable aesthetic feelings.

这一次，客户向我们简要介绍了如何在不失去三口之家基本需求的情况下建造一套独特的房子。经过调查，我们发现这座房子位于深圳班田区，这是一个新兴的开发区。由于房地产价格高，原来的房屋布局很小，但很复杂，而且“多功能”，换句话说，它被分割成一片混乱。因此，如何以紧密整合的空间和愉快的美感来提高生活质量是核心问题。

The client showed generous trust to us, which was the decisive reason why we came up with the idea of creating “parallel world” in this small place and thus made rotating symmetry become possible. Although we can’t realize walking around the parallel world freely, but we have the ability to observe it through the zero-distance rotating symmetry. In a sense, the parallel world completes the self world and makes a whole.

客户对我们表现出了慷慨的信任，这也是我们在这个小地方建立“平行世界”的想法的决定性原因，从而使旋转对称成为可能。虽然我们不能实现在平行世界中自由行走，但我们有能力通过零距离旋转对称观察它。从某种意义上说，平行世界完成了自我世界，形成了一个整体。

Firstly, in the main space, we installed one set of mirror closet system with specific angles that took the kitchen sliding door as the starting point. That not only redefined the relationships between living room, dining-room and kitchen, but also provided great space expansion and plenty of indirect light to indoor. And the kitchen sliding door’s movement led to interaction between self world and parallel world.

首先，在主空间，我们安装了一套具有特定角度的镜子壁橱系统，以厨房滑动门为起点。这不仅重新定义了客厅、餐厅和厨房之间的关系，而且为室内提供了巨大的空间扩展和大量的间接光。而厨房推拉门的运动导致了自我世界和平行世界之间的互动。

Secondly, we set up the other set of mirror closet system at the end of the corridor, transforming it from a dead end to a beauty with more natural light and view, no longer narrow and small. As for the bathroom, we employed the antique orange color. When the orange light scatters to the corridor, no matter staying in any angle of the Folding Residence, you tend to be attracted by that as a worm hole.

其次，我们在走廊的尽头建立了另一套镜子壁橱系统，把它从死胡同变成了一种更自然的光线和视野的美，不再狭窄和狭小。至于浴室，我们用的是古董橙色。当橙色的光线散射到走廊时，无论停留在折叠式住宅的任何角度，你都会被它吸引，就像虫洞一样。

Is feeling real or reality real? This is a question. We never doubt a dream while we are sleeping, and every feeling in the dream will accompany us even when we are awake. The hidden doors on the mirror closet system is just like a switch, door open, and dream stop, but the orange glow often makes me feel dreamy.

感觉真实还是真实？这是个问题。当我们睡觉时，我们从不怀疑一个梦，即使我们醒着，梦中的每一种感觉也会伴随着我们。镜子壁橱系统上隐藏的门就像一个开关，门开着，梦停了，但橙色的光芒常常让我感到梦幻。