Located within an ex-industrial campus in Shanghai’s Jing’an District, the project brief entails the adaptive reuse of the upper floor of an old factory building. After peeling back any built up layers from decades of renovations, the core essences of the original building’s character are revealed. The overarching design concept for the fit-out is inspired by the “nomad,” or the idea of lacking fixedness. Owing to the nature of client RED PLUS’s work in fashion and media, the design brief called for flexible working spaces.