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Soo's 78 Residence by Ken Thong Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Ken Thong honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Soo's 78 Residence by Ken Thong, designed for The Roof Studio. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
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.
More About Soo's 78 Residence
Project Soo's 78 is a calm and timeless home designed with a slow living philosophy for a retired mother. Major makeover transforms this 20 year old terrace house into a delicate stylish home that emphasizes openness, lightness, and functionality. The design team's focus on the design was to ensure that the overall space has sufficient natural light, greenery landscape, as well as uninterrupted air flow throughout the entire home to provide an elderly-friendly living space with a warm, cozy and serenity atmosphere.
About Ken Thong
Founded in 2011 by design director Ken Thong, The Roof Studio experts in blurring the lines between nature and urban design for both residential and commercial projects. Ken Thong is known for designing rich ambient lifestyle interiors with an emphasis on optimal functionality, meticulous attention to detail, sophisticated aesthetic, advanced home systems, and takes great pride in creating memorable homes tailored to each client’s way of life.
Award Record
Ken Thong is a winner of 8 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2016 - 2017 and the 2023 - 2024 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
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/160165
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/160165
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!160165
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/169942
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Soo's 78 Residence
- Function
- Residence
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Rosy Brown, Gray, Dim Gray, Silver and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- The Roof Studio
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Ken Thong
- Country
- Malaysia
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #160165
Credits
- Image Credits
- TWJPTO
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Project Soo's 78 is a calm and timeless home designed with a slow living philosophy for a retired mother. Situated in the Subang Jaya of Selangor, Malaysia, major makeover transforms this 20-year-old terrace house into a delicate stylish home that emphasizes openness, lightness, and functionality. Designed to reflect the homeowner’s lifestyle, the design team's focus on the design was to ensure that the overall space has sufficient natural light, greenery landscape, as well as uninterrupted air flow throughout the entire home to provide an elderly-friendly living space with a warm, cozy and serenity atmosphere.
- Inspiration
- The client, Madam Soo desires a retirement home where she can spend her life in a comfortable, serenity environment with a modern touch, but also a place where she can enjoy her family time during the weekend gathering. Based on the client requirements, the design team's focus on the design was to create an elderly-friendly and good flow open layout that is closely related to the inhabitant's lifestyles. Beside considered of living safety, bring in natural sunlight and greenery to the interior space, the design team choose to feature soothing wood tones with an off-white backdrop and minimalist furnishings that add natural touch and comforting vibe to the home.
- Research
- To evolved human-nature relationships and improve quality of live, the team's focus on the design was to keep space for landscaping to bring in greenery and natural light to the open-layout living, dining, dry kitchen, master bedroom and also a backyard garden for the ground floor bedroom, where the family can enjoy the rejuvenating vibe of its landscape from every corner of the house. In additional, the team put efforts on design skylight at the extended area which is wet kitchen, backyard garden and master bathroom to ensure the overall space has sufficient natural light to reduce energy consumption, as well as to solve the dark and dull problem of an intermediate terrace.
- Challenge
- The biggest challenge was to consider how to maximize the limited space without compromising on the aesthetic to create a meaningful space that fulfills the needs of the inhabitant and make it feel much larger and functional, as well as walkway space of wheelchair for future consideration. As this old building have lower beams and columns issues that cannot be remove, the design team have to solve it by covered up with feature paneling and design different ceiling layer to avoid narrow and limited space visual problem.
- Realization and Technology
- Different textures and durable materials are used throughout the refurbished home. With timeless natural quartz stone, ventilation blocks, wood flooring for 1st floor, new tiles for entire house and bathrooms, greenery landscape and skylight roofing give life to the neutral interior as well as blurring the lines between interior and exterior.
- Operation and Interaction
- For the building facade, the main double-volume feature wall is decked out in ventilation blocks to make a strong welcoming visual impact as well as the function of a new balcony space for living and master bedroom. It provide natural light, air ventilation and also privacy for the interior space. At night, the indoor light transmission highlight the ventilation feature wall as a facade light box. At ground floor, few walls that separated the area were torn down for a greater flow open layout plan while maintaining visual connectivity between spaces.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in May 2020 and was completed in March 2022 in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Specifications
- 2,741 square feet 2-storey terrace house with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
- Keywords
- Soo's 78, modern, contemporary, urban, residential design, refurbishment, makeover, nature-inspired, Malaysia
