Appreciation of Shanghai style architectural details: "Elegant and colorful floor"

The definition of modern indoor floor refers to the part of the building that directly bears the load of use and is frequently subjected to friction and cleaning.

The floor accompanies the advancement of human life and has always been an indispensable part of architecture

Shanghai Building Floor

⑴ Stone floor

 △ Ruijin Hotel

△ Paramount Ballroom

△Jinjiang Hotel

⑵ Wooden floor floor

 △Rong's Old House

△ Wudak Memorial Hall

△Malle Villa

⑶ Floor tiles

△ Xujiahui Catholic Church

At that time, there were as many as 6 colors of ceramic floor tiles that were popular in Shanghai.
Complex color patterns composed of white, black, gold, pink, green, and blue were more common.
White floor tiles with black or gold design patterns were more common.
Very common
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Floor tiles are usually decorated with traditional and original design patterns
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Floor tiles are of various sizes, most of which are square or octagonal in shape, which can be customized for a specific purpose or a design suitable for a specific space
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△Holy Trinity Christian Church

△China Foreign Exchange Trading Center

Smaller, single-color floor tiles can be joined to form a certain geometric pattern
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This type of floor tiles are called geometric floor tiles.
The shape of the geometric floor tiles is usually rectangular, square, triangular or hexagonal, and the thickness is the same as the aforementioned floor tiles
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Geometric floor tiles are particularly suitable for use as decorative frames.
Geometric floor tiles of different shapes, sizes, and colors are used in combination with patterned floor tiles to create various floor patterns during paving
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△Symphony Museum

Ceramic mosaic tiles are also called mosaics.
Because of their clear color, beautiful patterns, solid texture, pollution resistance, corrosion resistance, abrasion resistance, and easy cleaning, they have become the new favorite of Shanghai >
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Ceramic mosaic tiles are essentially geometric tiles with smaller dimensions, and the shapes include square, rectangular or elliptical, hexagonal, pentagonal and trapezoidal
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There are both vitrified mosaic tiles and semi-vitrified mosaic tiles; there are single-color or multi-color unglazed mosaic tiles with frosted surfaces, as well as colorful glazed mosaic tiles
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In addition, it can also be made into a single tile pattern that looks like a patchwork of many mosaic tiles
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With the help of a mold, the surface of the tile can show a pattern of recessed mud joints that seem to isolate each "mosaic"
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The colorful ceramic mosaic tiles are also used for inlays to form artistic murals, which are characteristic of decoration and artistic gender
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△Garden Hotel

△The Bund 18

△Seymour Hall

⑷ Terrazzo floor

The terrazzo decoration technology popular in Europe and the United States in the 1920s was quickly introduced to Shanghai after being introduced to Taiwan by the Japanese
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Because terrazzo is made of cement, white marble particles or colored slag, pigments and water in an appropriate proportion, it is made by mixing, pouring and tamping, curing, hardening, surface polishing, oxalic acid washing, waxing and other processes.
Into decorative materials
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When used for floor decoration, it is widely used in public buildings and residential buildings because of its high wear resistance, no dust accumulation, diverse material color matching, and strong decoration
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Like the popular marble pavement, Shanghai >
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Choose colors and patterns according to the indoor space environment, and design through the comparison of the size of the terrazzo particles and the comparison with the wall.
The effect achieved is not incompatible with other decorations in the space, and the key looks so fashionable.

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The terrazzo presents a simple, elegant and fashionable >
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The Haipai architectural terrazzo floor always gives people a feeling of psychological comfort, and is more eye-catching because of the easy-to-make craftsmanship and the clean and smooth texture
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△City Three Girls Middle School

△Daguangming Theater

In recent years, the newly developed epoxy grindstones and polymer modified cement grindstones can produce more cost-effective, more functional and more diverse grindstone floors
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The range of colors and aggregates available is greatly expanded
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The new polymer-modified cement grindstone and epoxy-based grindstone have been continuously upgraded through material technology, which greatly improves the ease of construction, and gives designers more flexibility in the effect of decorative design
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