ReRoot Wohnhaus by Maggie Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Bronze in Innenraumdesign Competition Category.

BronzeInnenraum· 2020

ReRoot Wohnhaus

by Maggie Yu

Client: TMIDStudio

A' Design Award in Bronze Winner in Innenraum Category

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The Design

About ReRoot Wohnhaus

Bei diesem Renovierungsprojekt integrierte das Design die neuen Bedürfnisse und Ideen der Bewohner in die bestehenden Bedingungen des alten Raums. Die renovierte alte Wohnung bot vielfältigere Zwecke, indem neuartige Entwurfsmethoden verwendet wurden, um den Raum in verschiedenen Erscheinungsbildern und Bedeutungen hervorzuheben. Vor allem dient der Raum auch als emotionaler Anker für den Besitzer, der Ort, an dem liebevolle Erinnerungen aus seiner Kindheit entstanden sind. Dieses Projekt hat eine alte Raumrenovierung unter Wahrung der emotionalen Verbindung des Eigentümers demonstriert.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Bronze

ReRoot Wohnhaus ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Bronze, einer hochprestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für herausragende Designs, die sich durch Kreativität, Einfallsreichtum und Scharfsinn auszeichnen. Bronze-Gewinner sind reichlich geschickte und auffallend kreative Artefakte, die die große Erfahrung, Fantasie und Findigkeit ihrer Designer belegen. Von ReRoot Wohnhaus wird erwartet, dass es ein hochgeschätztes, bewundertes und geliebtes Objekt ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Bronze prämierte Design verkörpert bewährte Verfahren in Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie und ist hervorragend in seiner Liebe zum Detail. ReRoot Wohnhaus befriedigt Bedürfnisse auf großartige Weise, berührt Wünsche, bezaubert Gefühle und spricht die Neugier an.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: When considering a renovation, a designer needs to integrate the new needs and ideas of the occupants with the existing conditions of the old space. To provide more diversified purposes, and use novel design methods to bring out the space different looks and meanings. In this case, the space also serves another emotional aspect, a childhood memories from the owner who inherent the apartment from his parents. How to reconstruct the space with preservation of his emotional connection become one major challenge of this project.
Dimensions & Packaging: This project is about 149 square meters, located in Taipei City.
Tags: Interior Design, Residential, House, Space
Production Technology: To retain the essence of the old era and bring out the embodiment of contemporary design, we must let the hardware and building materials, air and light of the home space, and the abstraction of continuity and inheritance, be integrated into the design through the perception and touch of the living experience. Using the nature of the structure, it guides the three characteristics of simple, natural and individual into a design.
Design Challenge: With confining the electrical and water ducts to the very small space below the ceiling, the design successfully creates an opening space with high ceiling to embrace and welcome the new family members.
Research: The project is located in Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan, one of cities which needs for renovation. In this project, we wish to find a balance between retain and repurposing of an old apartment which contained so much personal memories, yet need a modern space for the new leaves and memories to grow.
Inspiration: Inheriting from the bloodline of the previous generation, this project covers the owner's memories of growing up as a child, especially the spirit of deferred thoughts and culture of the loved ones. We hope to the chisels this old space to fit family context in the future living purpose.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2018 and finished in June 2018 in Taipei,Taiwan.
Operation Flow: We overthrow the original space partitions and moving lines, but choose to keep parts of exposed reinforced concrete, a resemble of his origin and a Root to childhood memories of the owner. A loving space where he grew up and supports him to become who he is today, an architect. Simplicity is the best note for the homeowner. In the transformation of perception into spatial shape, the limitations of hue, material and space height are integrated, and finally the life, memory and continuation of the resonance given by the space are depicted.
Team Members: MAGGIE YU
HUANG MING WEI
CHOU YI KUAN
Image Credits: Moooten Studio