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Lin's Courtyard House Custom Retirement Home by Kevin Yang

Lin's Courtyard House Custom Retirement Home by Kevin Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.


BronzeInterior· 2024

Lin's Courtyard House Custom Retirement Home

by Kevin Yang

Client: ChangebyDesign

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Lin's Courtyard House Custom Retirement Home

The designer design this 1000 square meter property for a retiring couple whom long dream of building their retirement home in the township of Meinong, Kaohsiung Taiwan. A small town which still retains the character of a traditional Hakka settlements. Site and function are the main contributors to the design concept of Lin's Courtyard House.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Lin's Courtyard House Custom Retirement Home 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. Lin's Courtyard House Custom Retirement Home 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. Lin's Courtyard House Custom Retirement Home splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
We design this 1,000-square-meter property for a retiring couple whom long dream of building their retirement home in the township of Meinong, Kaohsiung Taiwan.
A small town which still retains the character of a traditional Hakka settlements.
Site and function are the main contributers to the design concept,
Tags
Retirement living, Courtyard House,
Production Technology
Building structure is a reinforced concrete system
materials include: stone tiles, clay roof tiling, steel and glass panels and local red screen blocks.
Design Challenge
Challenges was to find the good construcion team.
especially during the time of Covid, we had many problems getting workers to go on the site job due to its location, which was about an 45min drive from Kaohsiung city. Time was delayed as expected, but quailty of work still had to be maintained with many changing work forces during that time.
Research
onsite visits were frequint to research site and local environment. sun directions, wind directions etc. but we also had to be mindful of materials used and how it relates to location regent and traditional courtyard house which our site's location is well known for.
Inspiration
we takes inspiration from site, and borrows a traditional asian 3 section courtyard dwellings to reflect its enviornment . The house reflects and suits to the southern Taiwanese climat
Project Duration
Project started in 2020, in Taiwan Kaohsiung and finished in 2023 December.
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