Awakening of Insects Funzione Primaria: Design Internu Residenziale by Yu Ouyang

Awakening of Insects Funzione Primaria: Design Internu Residenziale by Yu Ouyang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award di Ferru in Disignu d'Interiori Competition Category.

FerruInteriori· 2025

Awakening of Insects Funzione Primaria: Design Internu Residenziale

by Yu Ouyang

A' Design Award di Ferru Winner in Interiori Category

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The Design

About Awakening of Insects Funzione Primaria: Design Internu Residenziale

Testu di u Libru: Awakening of Insects hè una residenza privata cuncepita in Shenzhen, Cina. A casa hà una superficia tutale di 150 metri quadrati è hè urganizata nantu à dui livelli. Materiali chì lascianu passà a luce, ispirati da e travature tradiziunali, permettenu à a luce naturale di ghjunghje in prufundità in l'internu. Una lastra di pavimentu installata dopu è una scala riconfigurata sustenenu una circulazione verticale più fluida, mentre chì si conserva l'altezza di u soffittu. E dimensioni di i mobili, i dettagli di a scala è i mudelli decorativi sò fatti nantu à misura. U prughjettu cumbina a gerarchia spaziale urientale cù i principii strutturali uccidentali.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award di Ferru

Awakening of Insects Funzione Primaria: Design Internu Residenziale hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru, una ricunniscenza prestigiosa attribuita à i boni disegni chì rispondenu à i requisiti prufessiunali è industriali aspettati da creazioni ben cuncipite. I vincitori di Ferru dimustranu una grande abilità, una alta specializazione, una cumpresa esperta è a capacità creativa di i so creatori. Si aspetta chì Awakening of Insects Funzione Primaria: Design Internu Residenziale sia una creazione assai apprezzata, ammirata è cara chì hè pratica è innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru integra e migliori pratiche di u settore è hà caratteristiche tecniche cumpetenti ligate à u sapè fà è à u talentu. Awakening of Insects Funzione Primaria: Design Internu Residenziale hè rispettatu per a so meticulosità è hè cuncipitu per furnisce miglioramenti di a qualità di a vita chì aiutanu à fà di u mondu un locu megliu.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Emphasizedinnovation in daylight optimization("light-permeable materials", "deep natural light penetration")
Highlighteduser-centric circulation("streamlined structural planning", "smoother vertical circulation")
Stressedcultural hybridity("East-meets-West elements", "cross-cultural dialogue")
Balancedtechnical precision("proportional dialogue", "topological refinements") withemotional resonance("poetic, culturally resonant habitats")
Dimensions & Packaging: The building has a gross floor area of 150 square meters and is divided into two levels.
Tags: Private Residence Design, Retro Style, Eclecticism, Home Furnishings, Residence
Production Technology: This project incorporates specially customized elements across material selection, dimensional specifications, and stylistic treatments to ensure optimal adaptation to the spatial requirements. Key components such as the configuration of staircases, dimensions of furniture, and patterns and proportions of decorative artwork are meticulously tailored to harmonize with the architectural environment.
Design Challenge: This project involves the construction of a post-installed floor slab, where determining the compatibility between structural configuration, elevation positioning, functional requirements, and spatial perception presents a significant challenge. During the slab construction process, it is critical to maximize spatial ceiling height while integrating lighting systems, water supply pipes, and sewage drainage pipelines. These installations must be meticulously planned during the structural renovation phase. Additionally, comprehensive coordination of detailed specifications—including slab formwork design, material selection, and utility routing—must be finalized during preliminary planning stages to ensure seamless execution and optimal spatial performance.
Research: This project aims to explore the integration of design languages across diverse cultural contexts and historical eras within the Chinese context. While there is a growing preference among young Chinese for retro aesthetics, particularly French-inspired styles, our design philosophy prioritizes a contemporary exploration rooted in China's current cultural landscape. By seamlessly integrating modern design principles with traditional Chinese cultural elements and drawing on the strengths of Western influences, we seek to develop a cohesive design language that resonates with China's unique sociocultural identity and spatial narratives.
Inspiration: This project draws inspiration from the interplay between cultural heritage and technological innovation. Motivated by the need to revitalize traditional craftsmanship in contemporary contexts, the design reinterprets regional spatial paradigms through modern structural logic. The spatial narrative emerges from reconciling dualities: light permeability informed by vernacular latticework, fluid circulation reimagining ceremonial pathways, and material dialogues bridging artisan techniques with parametric precision. By synthesizing Eastern spatial hierarchy with Western tectonic principles, the scheme transforms functional constraints into poetic spatial experiences, proposing cross-cultural sustainability for urban dwellings.
Project Duration: The project commenced in Shenzhen, China in August 2023 and concluded in November 2024.
Image Credits: Picture 1-5:Photographer KaiFeng Zhu 2025