The Hoyu Headquarter and Office by Szu Wei Lee

The Hoyu Headquarter and Office by Szu Wei Lee is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.

BronzeInterior· 2024

The Hoyu Headquarter and Office

by Szu Wei Lee

Client: LSW Architects

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About The Hoyu Headquarter and Office

The Hoyu is an office headquarters located on the rooftop of a commercial building in Taipei. The interior design draws inspiration from the streamlined shapes of cars, in reference to the client's work in the automotive agency field. Wooden slats are arranged alongside the glass curtain walls to create an orderly sequence of light and shadow, recalling the broken and unbroken lines of the Chinese Bagua trigrams. A triangular void in a travertine wall reflects the building exterior. A water pond beside the building supports a calm and oriental atmosphere.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

The Hoyu Headquarter and Office 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. The Hoyu Headquarter and Office 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. The Hoyu Headquarter and Office splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

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Color Temperature: Slightly WarmSymmetry: PartialBackground: Top and Bottom

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Considering the energetic relationship between formless fluids and Chinese Bagua, and how they manifest in corresponding tangible objects, elements embodying wind, dance movement, and dynamic flows have been incorporated into both the architecture and interior spaces, creating a contemporary ambiance.
Dimensions & Packaging: Construction area 650 square meter.
Tags: Interior architects, office, headquarters, oriental, water, rooftop
Production Technology: To establish a unique and oriental context, the design concept draws from the linear composition of the Bagua trigrams, incorporating both broken and unbroken lines. Interweaving in a continuous and rhythmic linear pattern, glass curtain walls and wooden slats are arranged alongside the windows to create an orderly sequence of light and shadows.
Design Challenge: On the landscape side, it incorporates traditional Chinese garden planning and includes a water pond beside the building. The reflection of the building and vegetation in the water forms an oriental aesthetic status, fostering a natural harmony between the headquarters, oriental aesthetics, and environmental energy.
Research: Bagua is a Chinese Taoist cosmology system that explains the dynamic and static states of eight natural phenomena (including sky, lake, fire, thunder, wind, water, mountain, and earth), and it includes eight trigrams, each consisting of three sets of broken or unbroken lines.
Inspiration: The headquarters is located on the rooftop of a commercial building, which is a prominent city landmark featuring massive diagonal triangular glass curtain walls. In homage to the company's esteemed reputation in the automotive agency field, the overall interior design draws inspiration from the streamlined shapes of cars.
Project Duration: Zhongshan District, Taipei city.
Operation Flow: In the foyer leading to the conference hall, a triangular void in the travertine wall reflects the building's exterior. Inside the conference hall, the ceiling features a matte titanium cladding, complementing the glossy marble flooring and imbuing the space with a serene ambiance like the still water.
Patents: Copyrights belong to LSW Architects
Team Members: Szu-Wei Lee
Image Credits: Kyleyu Photo Studio