Spiritual Casa Diseño de interiores residencial by Meng Chuan Ho

Spiritual Casa Diseño de interiores residencial by Meng Chuan Ho is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award de Hierro in Diseño de Espacios Interiores y Exposiciones Competition Category.

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Spiritual Casa Diseño de interiores residencial

by Meng Chuan Ho

Client: DHouse Interior Design Co.,Ltd.

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Spiritual Casa Diseño de interiores residencial

Spiritual Casa es un proyecto de diseño de interiores residencial para una vivienda de cuatro plantas y 146 metros cuadrados en el campo de Yilan, Taiwán. El diseño combina las tradiciones china y española. Las vigas triangulares de madera, las baldosas españolas y la isla de cocina evocan la arquitectura rural española. Los biombos, los motivos de flor de manzano silvestre y los patrones de monedas antiguas remiten a las costumbres asiáticas. El mobiliario de ratán tejido a mano ha sido elaborado por artesanos locales mediante ensambles de caja y espiga. Los tonos tierra en gris y té con leche crean un fondo neutro, mientras que las islas centrales y los armarios mantienen la circulación despejada.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

Spiritual Casa Diseño de interiores residencial ha ganado el A' Design Award de Hierro, un reconocimiento prestigioso concedido a buenos diseños que cumplen los requisitos profesionales e industriales que se esperan de creaciones bien diseñadas. Los ganadores de Hierro demuestran gran habilidad, alta especialización, comprensión experta y capacidad creativa de sus creadores. Se espera que Spiritual Casa Diseño de interiores residencial sea una creación muy apreciada, admirada y querida, práctica e innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Hierro integra las mejores prácticas del sector y tiene características técnicas competentes unidas a conocimiento práctico y talento. Spiritual Casa Diseño de interiores residencial es respetado por su minuciosidad y está concebido para aportar mejoras en la calidad de vida que ayudan a hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: To blend Chinese and Western cultures, the design incorporates Spain's typical triangular wooden beams, a ceiling, an island bar, and Spanish tile accents. Chinese elements like screens, flowering crabapple, and antique coin motifs subtly highlight traditional Asian customs. Hand-woven rattan furniture, crafted by local artisans using mortise and tenon joints, showcases exquisite local craftsmanship.
Dimensions & Packaging: This is a 146 sqm, 4-story residence.
Tags: D HOUSE, Interior Design, Interior, Taiwan, Recidence
Production Technology: The totem on the tiles specially chooses the ancient Chinese coin pattern to imply the lucky meaning of opening the door and seeing money. The kitchen, with its square middle island, Spanish tiles and triangular roof, highlights the Spanish design elements and spirit, satisfying the homeowner's feeling of homesickness. The natural hollow rattan has the effect of ventilation and moisture drainage, and also echoes with the crabapple flower glass and lamp string on the curved wall to reproduce the retro charm of Taiwan in the 1960s.
Design Challenge: Because the first floor was blocked by T girder, beam and stairs, the horizontal space is cut, and once the mechanical and electrical equipment is hidden in the ceiling, the vertical space is also easy to become compressed. Therefore, in accordance with the existing beam position, the triangular roof is arranged in the kitchen ceiling to raise the view and restore the Spanish architectural structure. The living room uses the Chinese circular arc element to create the ceiling, outlining a soft spatial line, but also taking into account the needs of air conditioning. As for the entryway, the space is defined by a square ceiling.
Research: How to delicately integrate Eastern and Western elements has become an important key to the space. Therefore, the grey and milk-tea earth colors are used to establish a neutral spatial tone, and then restoring the Spanish architectural structure, the local traditional tiles and bright colors remind of the Spanish country house. While the Chinese elements are cleverly hidden in the ceiling and screen totem, with rattan plaited articles and embossed glass, showing the Chinese retro feelings.
Inspiration: The four-story house in the countryside of Yilan, Taiwan, owned by a Spanish and Taiwanese couple. The overall spatial structure and intricate details pay homage to Chinese and Spanish traditions, based on a deep affection for the native land. The triangular roof, Spanish tiles, screen and Chinese totem are arranged to integrate Eastern and Western cultures, attempting to trigger memories through material texture, touch and color, and connect the feelings of people and land, people and hometown.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2023 and finished in April 2023 in Taiwan.
Operation Flow: To make the sight and moving line smoother, the entryway uses glass tiles and low cabinets to divide the kitchen and living room, maintaining the sense of openness of the space. In the kitchen, the middle island is placed in the center, to form the hollow-square moving line, to walk more smoothly. As for the master bedroom, the same design is continued, with the chest of drawers in the center and the aisle on two sides, which is convenient to shuttle back and forth between the sleeping and storage areas without hindrance. The cabinet also deliberately uses an even table top, which can block the sight of the messy desktop and maintain a simple and neat space.
Team Members: HO MENG CHUAN
LAM TSZ KWAN