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Kai-Chun Ma Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Family Cohesion Residential Space in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Kai-Chun Ma honored for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Family Cohesion Residential Space by Kai-Chun Ma, designed for Eunimax Design, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed 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.
Regarding Family Cohesion Residential Space
Family Cohesion is a residential interior designed for young couples with newborn children. The home covers about 191 square feet in Taipei, Taiwan. Black and grey lines and furnishings combine modern neatness with a sense of comfort. The living room forms the center of the plan and extends toward the other areas. Grey glass in the hallway increases transparency, while a trapezoid ceiling above the dining and kitchen area reduces the feeling of compression. All materials are non-toxic and eco-friendly, including imported paint, stucco and diatomaceous earth.
Award Record
With this recognition, Kai-Chun Ma is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2018 - 2019 to 2019 - 2020 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. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/88490
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/88490
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!88490
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/225917
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/2wNQav8
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Family Cohesion Residential Space
- Function
- Residential Space
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Eunimax Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kai-Chun Ma
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #88490
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This parent-children unit is designed for young couples with newborns. The black and grey lines and furnishing depict the spatial expression of 80 percent modern neatness and 20 percent coziness. The arrangement of large area accomplishes the casual and stress-relief effect. The living room is the center and extended to other areas. The design intrigues the owner to re-examine his focus of life and warms up the exchange temperature with family, using natural, simple and stress-free space to comfort the soul and the time spending with family.
- Inspiration
- The perfect artistic model can intrigue life with profound ideas, context and sensation that blend in urban views or natural environment to break away from traditional function based building and space. Such model satisfies the vision so that the concept of aesthetics extends outside in as the most direct mean to approach art.
- Research
- The hallway extends spatial transparency and visual interaction using grey glass, where a display cabinet is designed to store collection with the implication of greeting the guests. The beams serves as the center of space, as the wall, ceiling and study room reflect the image of simplicity. The beam also indirectly balances and softens the space by introducing peoples touch, which derives the cozy longing for freedom. The top of the dining and kitchen area is shaped in a trapezoid to weaken the perception of compression and introduces the rhythm of lighting and shadow by layers through the light strip and patterned stucco.
- Challenge
- Appealing in lifestyle and promoting parent-children exchange through peoples memory, the design skillfully applies visual extension, crisscross and blending in response to the living movement of dwellers and maintain the perfect flexibility. The color of material is taken into consideration to provide a relaxing and tranquil image of tolerance, which coheres some mesmerizing power through the tension of natural stone pattern and the layers of indirect lighting.
- Realization and Technology
- All materials are non-toxic and eco-friendly when giving consideration for providing children with a healthy living space without pressure. For example, the special paint imported from Italy, stucco and diatomaceous earth are used. The different level of brightness and temperature highlight the internal emotion for home. The living room area composes the living requirement using simple functional objects to guide through the open movement through the position of furniture.
- Operation and Interaction
- The linear elements extends the syntax of public and private areas, quoting the graceful taste without excessive installation or decoration, to minimize the spatial colors and respond the health appeal by parents and children for the living environment through eco-friendly green materials. The movement stresses the intimate interaction between areas and provides considerable tranquility and comfort.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2018 and finished in December 2018 in Taipei city, Taiwan.
- Specifications
- The indoor area is approximately 191 square feet.
- Keywords
- spatial transparency, green materials, line and dimension, open space design
