Sierra Hijauan Residential House by Jack Lim is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
BronzeInterior· 2022
Sierra Hijauan Residential House
by Jack Lim
Client: Breathable
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Sierra Hijauan Residential House
Sierra Hijauan is a residential interior design for a house of about 4000 square feet in Ampang, Malaysia. Curved surfaces are used throughout to soften the look of sharp edges and to create a calm and comfortable feeling. Only warm tone materials are applied, including light tone wood, raw marble surfaces and matte finishes. Ambient lighting gives general illumination and highlights the furniture. In the master bedroom, a partition between the walk-in closet and the sleeping area holds a display rack and a see-through window. All cabinets are built with a modular system.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Sierra Hijauan Residential House is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Sierra Hijauan Residential House is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Sierra Hijauan Residential House splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Interior design is the process of shaping the experience of interior space, through the manipulation of spatial volume as well as surface treatment. Not to be confused with interior decoration, interior design draws on aspects of environmental psychology, architecture, and product design in addition to traditional decoration. An interior designer is a person who is considered a professional in the field of interior design or one who designs interiors as part of their job. Interior design is a creative practice that analyses programmatic information, establishes a conceptual direction, refines the design direction, and produces graphic communication and construction documents.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main focus in designing such project is pretty simple, keep everything simple and bold with element that suit for the area which’s supposed to.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Spread out to social media and share overall design and knowledge to the new blood in the Malaysia society.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This project holds it ground at the heart of Malaysia, Ampang which ranged approx. 4000 SQFT. Every corner within this premise is bound to be comfortable as it is surrounded by flow elements such as curve surface to channeled out uneasy or deemed unpleasant sight of edgy surfaces.
Diving into the main conceptual build of overall structure, the main areas such as master room is designed to be air flow as each space within that room are breathable for an example, utilizing its partition between walk in closet and main bedroom to have a display rack with rather unique mechanism and a see-through window between each space. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Material wise, only warm tone elements/materials are used to bring out the zen atmosphere which consists of light tone wood, raw marbles surfaces, matte color surfaces and so forth. To fulfill the practicality for all the cabinets and storages in the house, all cabinet are build with modular system which fits the user behavior. Of course it is a must to come with the ergonomics to enhance the interactions among user and the elements of the cabinets. The concept of ergonomics depending on daily habits by the user.
- Tags
- interiorplusasia, residential design, modernminimalist, spaciousspace
- Production Technology
- A feeling and mood associated in each particular place according to the area function. Setting up the tone in the house also helping to create focal points to highlight the furniture as well. Ambient light provided an overall illumination for all the space to create more practical and decorative lighting.
Key material of using in the concept are timber textured material and stone. The combination of both materials are used to represent the zen atmosphere. With the advantage of natural lighting materials and calm colors are able to balance out with each element to create a neutral space. - Design Challenge
- In this project challenging parts occurs in two separate stages, specifically in research (understanding what client needs and what we can offer in order to contribute in interior design of our country) & production methods that can ensure every safety protocol checked and able to bring out the value of aesthetic and functionality. Ultimately these two are the most challenging part of what it comes down to designing a space to suits a tenant need.
- Research
- At the beginning stage of the production, relevant participants such as project client and team members will come to a discussion on certain aspect such as preferred concept, preferred lighting tone, preferred alignments, preferred outcome or any specifications to be aware of during the procedure and finally open up to share what both parties will be looking forward to in the end of this project run. Not to mentioned, existing space location inspection will be conducted by the team to further understand overall premise structure before venturing into the next stage which are the prompted ideas proposal.
- Inspiration
- Every corner within this premise is bound to be comfortable as it is surrounded by flow elements such as curve surface to channeled out uneasy or deemed unpleasant sight of edgy surfaces. Only warm tone elements/materials are used to bring out the zen atmosphere which consists of light tone wood, raw marbles surfaces, matte color surfaces and so forth.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2021, estimate will be completed in September 2021.
- Operation Flow
- Client engaged on the March 2021, to come out with the visual, design director contacted with client and understand all special requirements and propose accordingly to client's needs. After all information provided by client, design director prepared style proposal to make sure information provided and input with practical design as it's a long term house for the client and family. After all detail is confirmed, design director work with internal team to produce 3D visualize for client's view, and it's now proceeding to renovation stage.
- Team Members
- Jack Lim
Eden Ho - Image Credits
- (3D Visualizer) Eden Ho
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