Press Release
The River is Everywhere Placid Place by Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang Receives the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ The River is Everywhere Placid Place by Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang, designed for 317studio, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
Regarding The River is Everywhere Placid Place
The River is Everywhere is a residential interior design for a 200-square-metre apartment in Taipei City. The design draws on the nearby river and on the theme of a spiritual journey. The entry ceiling was remodelled into a smooth curved line. Layered openings on the living room partition walls cast shadows that recall trees seen from a river. Plaster surfaces were finished by hand to give the open plan a clean and bright quality. A bespoke dining counter of marble and plastic sheet with a curved mirror leg stands at the centre of the space.
Award Record
Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/133211
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/133211
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!133211
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/227176
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://317designstudio.com/2021/10/13/the-river-is-everywher
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The River is Everywhere Placid Place
- Function
- Placid Place
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Dark Gray, Silver, Dark Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- 317studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #133211
Credits
- Team
- Tsai Yun Kao, Po Chang Lin and Kai Hung Yang
- Image Credits
- Main image and optional images: Photographer Kyle Yu, Variations, 2021.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Creating a journey on the river for the flow of space of the owners, Upon entering a 200-square-metre apartment, its living room’s the refined textures that first impress. The ceiling of entry was remodelled to create a sleek curved line, rhythm bores applied on partition walls in the living room were elegantly layered across the space to reflect the shadow of trees, like the scene from the river. The wooden private space, it seems like a boundary between the rivers and caves warmly exits.
- Inspiration
- Features of geography inspired us to make all of these things happen, such as a river surrounded by the apartment, watercourses surrounded by the location of the site. The client’s background and story recall the character from the novel “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse. Referencing the spiritual journey of self-discovery of the man in the book to the design minimalist language. The most attractive part is he learned and experienced through the river.
- Research
- Chinese had been developed the Xin Dian area along the river by boat since 1909. Nowadays, the development of the area has been built for river sightseeing and urban community. The purpose of the research of the site location is to try to find out a connection between the background of the owner, the change of Xin Dian and its impacts through “homospatial thinking”. We deeply believe that result of creating rivers and time flowing must necessarily become a unique experiment for the inhabitant to develop their own existence in the space.
- Challenge
- For the realization processes, we always conceive of ourselves as a conceptual and experimental designer with a more minimalist vision for the clients, but from a local social perspective in Taiwan, the design of residence has to use plenty of decorative elements to be magnificent. We are intending to achieve the aesthetic of design methods and materials reconfigured and adapted to suit the needs of the local culture. We hope that would be a magical way of process slowly extracts all the essences and aroma of Taiwan.
- Realization and Technology
- By hand-craft plaster and specialist trades, the house creates an opportunity to experience the interior as a series of surfaces and textures. We also hoped that utilising a tactile selection of material would give the space’s open floor plan a clean, brightly quality. Dominating the centre of space is a bespoke dining counter crafted from marble and plastic sheet inlaid with a curved shape mirror leg where the sculptural object can slightly reflect natural lights and shadow movements.
- Operation and Interaction
- The keyframe is how to convert the invisible concept into the visible objects in the space. Especially the concept is from a character who has been learned and experienced through the river. We took the scenes that he saw, the means that he seeking to be free and open to profound in the inner of peace, to transforming the philosophy that we felt from the role in the book into the design processes. We used the natural materials and form of function objects to complement the apartment’s placid interior. It is an artful lesson on how to align comfort and simplicity.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2020 in Taipei City and finished in May 2021.
- Specifications
- 200-square-metre apartment
- Keywords
- interior design, minimalist
