Mdo imagined the Yantai Experience Sales Centre as a contrast to the homogeneity of the new development, through form, materiality, and relationship with the landscape. Around the main central lounge and discussion area, all the other functions are placed equally accessible from the centre, encouraging more lines of communication and rendering an overall feeling of openness and link with the surroundings. The architecture becomes a unity of positive and negative spaces. Like a snow-crystal structure that can be read as a pattern in its presence or absence of matter.

Founded in 2014 by partners Jaycee Chui and Justin Bridgland, MDO is an interdisciplinary architectural and interior design practice based in Shanghai. MDO Shanghai practice’s global portfolio includes real estate, architecture design,urban renewal, commercial design, product, exhibition and graphic works. MDO UK is a new brand specializing in designing and developing high end sustainable residential projects in Europe. Jaycee Chui is an ARB registered Architect and interior designer, Justin Bridgland is a RIBA chartered Architect and musician. Their diverse cultural backgrounds allow MDO to emphasize the notion of "transformation" in design practice, fusing different cultural contexts into their designs. MDO anchors its ethos on dynamic interactions, between architecture and interior,exploring scale and proportion, material and form, light and color, creating journeys and stories for the space.