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SAF 2015 - Shanghai Architects Fair 2015

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SAF 2015

Shanghai Architects Fair 2015

Concurrently with:
The 17th Domotex Asia/China Floor 2015
R+T Asia 2015

As the annual carnival of China's Architecture and design, SAF 2015 - Shanghai Architects Fair 2015 will be staged during Mar.24-26, 2015 at Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), China.

Shanghai Architects Fair (SAF) is an international leading architectural conference. Shanghai Architects Fair invite key opinion leaders gather together, share the design theories and feel its delicacy. Under the theme of “Power of Design”, top architects sit together with you; share its advanced experiences and plentiful case studies.

SAF covers space design: ranges from commercial buildings, residential houses, hotels. The fields also extend to landmark tall buildings design spirit, innovative green materials application, urban renovation projects and etc.

Why visit SAF 2015 - Shanghai Architects Fair 2015?
■ Be up close with architectural masters and rethink the changing needs of future architecture
■ Digitalization and the innovative technologies for architectural designing
■ Vitality of hospitality space and the future designing trends
■ New materials and innovative technologies
■ Exquisite ceramic tiles and stones

Four Conference Series:
Interior or Exterior, Who is in charge?
Master Forum: Urban Design
Materials in Transition
Time goes back: redesign or rebuilt?


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SAF2015 Agenda

Date Hall E6, SNIEC Hall N3, SNIEC
March 24
(Tue, Full Day)
Interior or Exterior, Who is in charge? Master Forum: Urban Design
March 25
(Wed, Afternoon)
Materials in Transition Time goes back: redesign or rebuilt?

 

Interior or Exterior, Who is in charge?      March 24, ( TUE, Full Day)      Hall E6, SNIEC 
09:30-10:00 Registration & Opening
10:00-10:45 Ensouling steel and concrete. Who authors experiential design?
•  Develop trends of hospitality market
•  Who owns the responsibility to ensure that a property delivers a genuine and elevated experience? Who authors this experience?
•  Evaluate the roles of the architect and the interior designer in the creation of a brand-rich guest experience
Mr. Robert J. Gdowski, Vice President/ Regional Leader of Hospitality, HOK
11:00-11:45 “Experience, Impression and Fusion”- leading to a warm and cozy design
•  How to bring gorgeous into simple, present more with less?
•  Monolithic design concept shows highly aesthetics of modern household life
•  How to integrate emotions into design? 
Ms. Jane Chen, Founder/ BNJN Design, AECOME China/ Former General Manager of Interior Design 
13:30-14:15 Demo house design concept – step to quality life
•  Development history
•  Varieties
•  Speaking from the experience: small space, mansion and villa
•  Case studies of demo houses across the straits
Mr. James K.S. Tu, Principal, Audi (International) Interior Design 
14:15-15:00 Secrets in between of interior design and architecture culture
• Stories of ‘dream home remould’
• Decorative design manifests the charms of art
• Decoding the secret of interior design
Mr. Ping Wang, Design Principal, Ping Design Studio 
15:15-16:00 Panel Discussion: Innovation and Combination of new model hotel design and service positioning.
• How to satisfy clients’ needs of hotel space design?
• How to create and increase commercial value for both high-end business and recreational hotels?
• With characteristic service, how to remain the trends and architecture techniques on the same page?
Mr. Tomás Pablo Contreras, Hospitality Director - Regional Practice Area Leader, Gensler
Mr. Ben Goh, Co-Founder, BNJN Design
Mr. Zhang Mingliang, VP and GM of Planning and Designing Center, Antaeus Group
Mr. Gabi Munoz, Managing Director, Lola Lago Interiores Barcelona 
16:00–16:45 Experiential and futuristic design for commercial space 
Mr. Qin Pang, Head of Shanghai Studio, Benoy
17:00-18:00 Welcome Cocktail Party (Hall N3)

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Master Forum: Urban Design      March 24, ( TUE, Full Day)      Hall N3, SNIEC
09:30-10:00 Registration & Opening
10:15-11:00 City Life——Ecological Concept
•  High-technology, culture and ecological architecture leads to a sustainable future.
•  Future trends of house design and office building design in China
•  How to achieve efficiency, cost saving and ecology by urban design planning?
Mr. Wang Kaifang, Founder, Wang Kaifang Studio 
11:15-12:00 A CO2-neutral society
•  Developing comfortable building without being at the expense of the environment and economical feasibility
•  Challenge ourselves by creating buildings that function as closed ecosystems
•  Durable building——vitalizing new insights by the use of natural and therefore healthier products
Mr. Paul de Ruiter, Director, Paul de Ruiter Architects 
13:15-14:30 Dialogue between urban landmark architect and interior master
——Sharing of classic project
Mr. Frank Jiang, Chairman, J&A Jiang & Associates
Mr. Meng Jianmin, Founder, Meng Architects 
14:45-16:00 Dialogue between developer and architect
•  Diversity and variety of urban design
•  How to balance the artistry and science along with the commercial and culture?
•  Abundant design elements in small and elaborate project
•  How to develop small life in urban city?
Mr. Paul Tang, Partner/ Vice President, Verse Design 
16:00-17:00

Architecture • Nature
•  Natural architecture—— smooth & harmoneous connection with the surroundings
•  “Unnatural Factors” in natural architecture
•  Deep understanding of the relationships in between nature and human being, drive to poetic natural architecture
Mr. Kengo Kuma, Master Architect, Japan, Kengo Kuma & Associates

17:00-18:00 Welcome Cocktail Party

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Materials in Transition       March 25, (WED, Afternoon)      Hall E6, SNIEC
12:00-13:30 Registration & Opening
13:30-14:15 Material Senses
•  About: innovative materials for architecture and design
•  Sensorial experience in space and product
•  Stimulate awareness of material properties
•  Hospitality, health care, education, offices: how to increase positive effects with materials
Ms. Els Zijlstra, Creative Director, Materia, The Netherlands
14:15-15:00 Release the inspiration of design by using of innovative materials
•  How to build the green future with environmental and recycle bio-materials?
•  Compose the new chapter with diversity innovative materials
•  How to transfer the architecture space into a real home?
Mr. Fernando Brandão, Founder, Fernando Brandão + Arquitetura e Design 
15:15-16:00 Green villa interior design
•  The language of design——materials
•  Trends of residential interior design and the introduction of classic style, European style, and modern style
•  Comprehensive design via combinations of multiple cultures, thoughts, aesthetic and new materials
Mr. Liu Haowei, Founder & Creative Director, CAA 
16:00-16:45 BioMaterials – from passive to active building components
•  The use of natural materials or “BioMaterials”
•  3 main case study projects: The Life Cycle Tower, The BioBuild Project and the SolarLeaf Façade System
Dr.-Ing. Jan Wurm, Associate Director, Materials Consulting, Arup 
17:00-18:00 Welcome Cocktail Party 

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Time goes back, redesign or rebuilt?      March 25, (WED, Afternoon)      Hall N3, SNIEC
12:00-13:30 Registration & Opening
13:30-14:15 Creating sustainable and livable city in China
•  Focus on the quality of a space and understanding local climatic and geographic conditions to implement passive but powerful means to create soothing microclimates
•  Creating human scaled spaces indoor and between buildings that strengthens communities and spontaneous gatherings
•  Respecting local cultures by relating and furthering local specificities in each project
Mr. Claude Bøjer Godefroy, Partner & Design Director, Henning Larsen Architects Hong Kong 
14:15-15:00 Acquire an aspect for existing buildings by design
Mr. Marco Piva, Founder, STUDIO MARCO PIVA
15:15-16:00

Innovation & inheritance of redesign projects by dEEEP
•  Case study
•  Description of innovation and inheritance of design
•  Innovative application of architecture
Mr. Li Daode, Founder, dEEP Architects

16:00-16:45 A creative redesign: glamour once more
•  When bring up to date design concept, in combination of using original materials, how to reproduce the historic building’s glmour?
•  Redesign, to protect the traditional traits, as well cater for the need of modernism.
•  How to attach ancient elements to modern construction with remain the original ecology?
17:00-18:00 Welcome Cocktail Party (Hall E6)

 



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