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Tongli Villa Innenarchitektur für Wohnräume by Hangzhou Shihe Design

Tongli Villa Innenarchitektur für Wohnräume by Hangzhou Shihe Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award in Silber in Innenraumdesign Competition Category.


SilberInnenraum· 2026

Tongli Villa Innenarchitektur für Wohnräume

by Hangzhou Shihe Design

Client: Hangzhou Shihe Design

A' Design Award in Silber Winner in Innenraum Category

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The Design

About Tongli Villa Innenarchitektur für Wohnräume

Die Tongli Villa ist ein Wohn-Innenarchitekturprojekt für ein dreigeschossiges Haus mit einer Gesamtfläche von rund 450 Quadratmetern. Der Grundriss ist offen und fließend gestaltet, ohne Trennwände, und umfasst eine Dachlounge, die ohne abgehängte Decke belassen wurde. Natürliche Materialien prägen das Interieur, darunter unbehandeltes Teakholz, geschwärztes, imprägniertes Bauholz und von Hand aufgetragene Lehmwände. Ornamente werden auf ein Minimum reduziert, sodass Textur und Tageslicht jeden Raum formen. Der Entwurf spiegelt das Miao-Erbe der Bauherrin wider und unterstützt einen ruhigen, entschleunigten Alltag.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Silber

Tongli Villa Innenarchitektur für Wohnräume ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Silber, einer enorm prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für erstklassige, großartige und beeindruckende Spitzendesigns. Silber-Gewinner sind ungemein brillante und äußerst kreative Werke, die die herausragende Expertise, das Talent und den Scharfsinn ihrer Designer veranschaulichen. Von Tongli Villa Innenarchitektur für Wohnräume wird erwartet, dass es ein wunderbares Vorzeigewerk ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und zutiefst innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Silber prämierte Design ist eine höchst bemerkenswerte, bewunderte Erfindung, die den Grenzen von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie zugutekommt und sie voranbringt. Tongli Villa Innenarchitektur für Wohnräume ist eine vielbeneidete Schöpfung, die Wünsche weckt, positive Gefühle vermittelt und Staunen und Verwunderung entfacht.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
This residential design captures the essence of emotional connection, cultural resonance, and sensory comfort. Blending raw materials such as teak, charred wood, artistic mud walls, and hand collected objects, the space abandons decorative excess to return to elemental simplicity. The spatial layout is fluid, resisting traditional segmentation. Instead, it becomes a canvas for daily rituals, emotional anchoring, and inner peace: an aesthetic of stillness and lived poetry.
Dimensions & Packaging
The house includes three levels with a total floor area of approximately 450 sqm. Key spatial elements include a horizontally open plan ground floor, an unceiled attic lounge, and a free flow layout without partition walls. Materials are predominantly natural and untreated, aligning with the spatial philosophy of sensory grounding.
Tags
Emotional Dwelling, Poetic Minimalism, Miao Culture, Nature Inspired Interior, Raw Materials, Timeless Design, Slow Living, Cultural Resonance, Organic Textures, Meditative Space
Production Technology
The project adopts a material first approach rooted in authenticity. Teak wood was used untreated to preserve its warmth and grain, while blackened anti corrosion timber adds weight and durability. Hand applied mud walls and artistic paint deliver texture and tone without ornament. The approach emphasized manual craftsmanship and intuitive layering over mechanical precision.
Design Challenge
The primary challenge was resisting conventional luxury symbols and instead crafting a space of deep emotional value. Balancing the owner's cultural identity with modern comfort required nuanced material choices, emotional mapping, and conceptual restraint. The absence of visual drama demanded heightened attention to detail, proportion, and sensory atmosphere.
Research
This is an applied cultural emotional design study exploring how spatial language can translate heritage and emotional needs into form. The methodology involved user immersion, ethnographic interviews, and contextual material selection. The homeowner's daily habits, values, and sensory preferences were key data points. The result is a space that not only houses the body but also resonates with memory, ritual, and inner calm enhancing the broader conversation on design’s emotional efficacy.
Inspiration
The homeowner's Miao heritage and natural lifestyle philosophy inspired a design that values emotional depth over surface form. Influenced by vernacular dwellings and poetic Eastern aesthetics, the concept centers on the idea of a home as a place of stillness, reflection, and healing. Rain falling on tiles, shifting light across earth toned walls, and silence within wooden textures form the emotional blueprint for the space.
Project Duration
The project started in January 2024 in Suzhou, China and finished in January 2025.
Operation Flow
The space invites slow, unstructured interaction. There are no dominant visual cues or rigid furniture placements. Instead, the flow is organic light guides the user, and silence defines transitions. It's not about usage, but co existence: the homeowner doesn't use the space, she dwells within it, rhythmically, intuitively.
Team Members
Designer: Chen Kezhi
Designer: Wang Huaqiang
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.

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