Wave Residential House by Minwoo Ahn is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
BronzeInterior· 2023
Wave Residential House
by Minwoo Ahn
Client: Ahn and Partners
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Wave Residential House
The Wave is a single detached house that blends seamlessly with its natural surroundings. It is designed to create a personalized living experience that caters to the needs of its residents. Every aspect of the design is carefully curated to provide a sensory experience that enhances the quality of life of its occupants. The living and bar areas are designed to combine solitude and communal space to create an atmosphere that is for entertainment. The high ceilings and large windows allow natural light to flood in, creating a warm and inviting ambiance that promotes relaxation and comfort.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Wave 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. Wave 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. Wave Residential House splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to blending the Wave Residential House with its natural surroundings is striking - could you elaborate on how you achieved this seamless integration between architecture and landscape?
The Wave House project is a unique case that started with an interior design based on the concept of a view, and expanded the design scope to include the landscaping design, which is the subject of the view, as well as the front yard and wall connected to the building, and the landing part of the garden stairs. We tried to understand the formativeness and principles of architecture, and focused on naturally connecting this to the interior. In addition, we considered the front yard as the middle area in the relationship between the building and the landscape, and interpreted it as the concept of an outdoor living room that is connected to the same level as the interior. In this outdoor living room, users can experience devices that contain natural objects such as water and fire with artificial structures such as a mirror pond and a fire place, and furthermore, we planned it in stages so that they can experience a rest closer to nature in the pergola, which is located in a small forest of grass and trees.
The high-ceiling guest bathroom with natural stone walls in the Wave Residential House creates a unique sensory experience - what inspired this distinctive design choice and how does it enhance the user experience?
In the process of understanding the structure of the building, we first interpreted the structure of the ceiling of the guest bathroom in the basement and its relationship with the outside. In order to make the experience of this guest bathroom that guests will use more impressive, we suggested to the architect to dramatically increase the ceiling height and put a skylight here. As a result, the natural light coming down through the small skylight created by opening the ceiling slab conveys the change to the user, leading to a considerate and impressive experience for the user, and at the same time, the user can have an enhanced and special experience of this house.
Your Bronze A' Design Award-winning Wave Residential House features an intriguing combination of solitary and communal spaces - how did you balance these contrasting needs while maintaining design coherence?
It can be said that it is closely related to the lifestyle of the members of this house. Family members of different ages should be able to eat together and spend leisure time separately, and each person needs different experiences in the same space. To satisfy this, we set up various scenarios for movement and behavior, and focused on hiding advanced functions as much as possible. The materials used in the building were fully revealed in the interior, and the sculptural language of the building was continued into the interior to emphasize consistency. On the other hand, the interior design was planned to highlight the nature seen through the window, and the style of the interior design tried to appropriately convey the physical properties of the materials.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Wave is a single detached dwelling embracing the natural landscape drawn from the surrounding environment. The project focused on the elements that comprise the everyday experience of the users. In particular, the living area and bar were designed as fused spaces to facilitate a solitary and communal space for entertainment, and the bathroom in a guest room on the basement floor is enhanced by the presence of skylights placed along the sun trajectory to capture its natural light.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 29,650mm x 1,1000 mm x 16,300 mm
- Tags
- Interior Design, Residential Interior, Luxury House, Modern House
- Production Technology
- With elaborate details of the staircase, glass railing, and post were designed with a harmony with the natural landscape scenery. The open kitchen on the first floor conveys the meaning of central space with a prominent book matching hanging wall. The landscape and wall structure are revealed and the linear pendant connected to the curvilinear form of the architectural exterior accentuates the space. visual and tactile conditions were examined in advance through computer simulation and sampling of materials to reduce interference between the structure, function, and finishing.
- Design Challenge
- With a theme of landscape scenery, the project suggests various ideas related to the context of architecture. The design of a guest bathroom with a high ceiling, a heavy natural stone wall as a part of the landscape scenery, a mirror pond on the ground level, and the landing part of the garden stairs allows user experience to connect from the indoors to outdoors. The hanging fireplace separates the living space and kitchen while both spaces share the warmth upon which the fireplace is used as a new design element to divide the space.
- Research
- We contemplated diverse means of appreciation derived from a single detached dwelling by the user. The project intends to elevate the user fulfillment by reflecting spatial and functional elements and lifestyle. Aside from transient trends and style, our profound concerns included the type of experience that embraces every day. we assigned each experience in the space to encourage the daily life to be absorbed in the dwelling. By delivering the basic functionality of dwelling as a space of security and relaxation, a therapeutic space for family, a space for close interaction with nature.
- Inspiration
- The main objective of the project is to offer the living experience inherent to a single detached dwelling. The house presents general yet unique, and visceral interaction with nature. The uninterrupted mutual fusion of the landscape inside the house is especially emphasized, and the outdoor layout involves unacquainted elements amidst urban complex housings such as the front yard and pond. The project concept focuses on the space in the landscape.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2019 and finished in February 2021 in Bundanggu, Seongnamsi, Gyeonggido
- Operation Flow
- The open kitchen is used as a shared space for guests and the scullery as a private space for the family is compartmentalized to increase utility. Also, the divided areas of the basement area and shared living room reflecting the owner’s preference induce usability. The front door is 3 meters in height using high performance hardware that can easily be controlled by a woman and promotes a pleasant experience. Also, the motorized blinds are installed to be adjusted by the user for preferable lighting. The user reduces repetitive housework and experiences stability and aesthetic value.
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