The Difference Between Future-Forward Minimalism and Warm, Visible Craftsmanship

Two buildings with rounded corners juxtaposed. The futuristic minimalist building has seamless white coatings and frameless glass, with precise, sharp edges, appearing like an industrial product; the organic curve building's curved surfaces are hand-troweled plaster, curved wooden grilles, and bricks that turn one by one, with subtle unevenness and warm tones on the surface, and the curvature of the curves is not entirely regular. One belongs to the machine, the other to the hand. Avoid: the organic curve building being made with a smooth, seamless high-tech surface, using cool white linear lighting, materials only being white coating and glass, or curves being overly geometrically precise.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

兩棟帶有圓角的建築並置。未來感極簡那棟是無縫的白色塗層與無框玻璃,邊緣精準銳利,看起來像工業產品;有機曲線那棟的曲面是手抹的灰泥、彎曲的木格柵與一塊一塊轉過去的磚,表面有細微的不均勻與溫暖的色調,曲線的弧度也不完全規則。一個屬於機器,一個屬於手。避免:讓有機曲線那棟做成光滑無縫的高科技表面、使用冷白的線性燈光、材料只有白色塗層與玻璃、曲線過於幾何精確。