Happy Home Residence by Hong Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.

BronzeInterior· 2020

Happy Home Residence

by Hong Wu

Client: Wu Hong

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Happy Home Residence

Happy Home is a residential interior design for a three-storey house in Chongqing, China. The original building had a chaotic layout and no daylight on the lower ground floor. The interior was rebuilt through changes to the basement and a new cast-in-place floor slab on the second floor. The kitchen, dining room and fitness area were placed on the lower ground floor. Patios bring daylight and air to that level. A sunshine teahouse in the courtyard and a new terrace link the rooms with the outdoor scenery. The finished home covers 288 square meters and serves three generations.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Happy Home Residence 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. Happy Home Residence 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. Happy Home Residence splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Image Analysis

Color Temperature: WarmSymmetry: PartialBackground: Top and Bottom

Interviews

Design Interview

What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

Modern style is more inclined to scientific and reasonable structural technology, and attaches great importance to the performance of each material. The living room is a wood veneer to the top and the stone of the TV wall reflect each other, making the progressive connection of the whole space stable and hierarchical

What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

Bauhaus's pragmatism enjoys both comfort and beauty. The living room does not have excessive decoration. Everything starts from the function, pays attention to the appropriate modeling proportion, the clear and beautiful spatial structure, and emphasizes the bright and simple appearance.

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Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: In this project, interior transformation was made on the original building with special structure, and the effective interior living area was doubled to create a reasonable layout and convenient living space, which satisfied the living needs of the owner's three generations and greatly enhanced the overall value of the house.
Dimensions & Packaging: The interior area for the project is 288 square meters.
There are three floors in total.
Tags: Residential design, interior, housing, space, spatial planning, spatial reconstruction
Production Technology: The interior structure of the original building was very chaotic, but the outdoor environment was very beautiful. The designer first needed to perfect the use function, and at the same time needed to integrate the outdoor scenery to provide a living experience as natural and comfortable as possible.
Interior function layout: the designer reconstructed the interior space through the transformation of the basement and the cast-in-place floor slab on the second floor, creating a living space with complete functions and reasonable layout.
Integration of outdoor environment and living space: the designer increased the lighting and natural air flow in the negative first floor space by designing patios. Sunshine teahouse was set in the courtyard on the first floor, and a large new terrace was added on the second floor, integrating the beautiful outdoor natural environment with the interior space to improve the living experience.
Design Challenge: The original structure of this project is extremely chaotic with no lighting on the negative first floor. There are only 20 square meters on the second floor with very limited effective living area. The transformation of spatial structure is the primary challenge that the designer faces.
The designer rearranges the interior space to create three complete floors totaling 288 square meters, providing a fully functional living space for the owner's three generations.
Research: Rearrangement for the chaotic structure of the original building.
Spatial planning based on the specific structure of the house.
Effective utilization of indoor planes.
Integration of interior space and outdoor environment.
Reasonable match between human life scene and space.
Inspiration: The project design focuses on reconstruction the chaotic interior space layout. The idea for overall spatial planning comes from analysis for the motion trend of the occupant's everyday activity and the understanding for the special structure of the building.
The designer set the kitchen to the negative first floor, and an overall change in the layout of the whole space was brought about, and finally seasonable functional attributes for each space was configured.
Project Duration: Design Period: April 2018 - July 2018
Construction Period: July 2018-May 2019
Completion Time: May 2019
Project Location: Chunshantai, Jinkai Avenue, Yubei District, Chongqing, China
Operation Flow: Reasonable spatial layout must come from deep analysis of the building structure. The negative first floor downstairs for the project is an elevated underground parking lot with good moistureproof performance. The drainage pipeline is lower than the negative first floor. As a result, the designer breaks away from conventions, regarding the negative first floor as kitchen, restaurant and fitness area and increase the use efficiency of the building to the greatest extent.
Patents: Copyright: Chongqing Morning Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd.
Team Members: Designer: Wu Hong
Image Credits: Photographer: Jiang Chuan