Tongli Villa Diseño de interiores residenciales by Hangzhou Shihe Design

Tongli Villa Diseño de interiores residenciales by Hangzhou Shihe Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award de Plata in Diseño de Espacios Interiores y Exposiciones Competition Category.

PlataInterior· 2026

Tongli Villa Diseño de interiores residenciales

by Hangzhou Shihe Design

Client: Hangzhou Shihe Design

A' Design Award de Plata Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Tongli Villa Diseño de interiores residenciales

Tongli Villa es un proyecto de diseño de interiores residencial para una vivienda de tres niveles con una superficie total aproximada de 450 metros cuadrados. La distribución es abierta y de circulación fluida, sin muros divisorios, e incluye un salón en el ático que se dejó sin cielorraso. Los materiales naturales definen el interior, entre ellos la teca sin tratar, la madera tratada contra la corrosión y oscurecida, y los muros de barro aplicados a mano. La ornamentación se reduce al mínimo, de modo que la textura y la luz natural configuran cada estancia. El diseño refleja la herencia Miao del propietario y favorece una vida cotidiana serena y pausada.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Plata

Tongli Villa Diseño de interiores residenciales ha ganado el A' Design Award de Plata, un reconocimiento extraordinariamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de gama alta, magníficos e impresionantes. Los ganadores de Plata son obras tremendamente brillantes y sumamente creativas que ilustran la destacada experiencia, el talento y la agudeza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que Tongli Villa Diseño de interiores residenciales sea una obra maravillosa y emblemática, notablemente profesional y profundamente innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Plata es una invención muy notable y admirada que beneficia y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. Tongli Villa Diseño de interiores residenciales es una creación enormemente envidiada que evoca deseos, aporta sentimientos positivos y despierta asombro y admiración.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This residential design captures the essence of emotional connection, cultural resonance, and sensory comfort. Blending raw materials such as teak, charred wood, artistic mud walls, and hand collected objects, the space abandons decorative excess to return to elemental simplicity. The spatial layout is fluid, resisting traditional segmentation. Instead, it becomes a canvas for daily rituals, emotional anchoring, and inner peace: an aesthetic of stillness and lived poetry.
Dimensions & Packaging: The house includes three levels with a total floor area of approximately 450 sqm. Key spatial elements include a horizontally open plan ground floor, an unceiled attic lounge, and a free flow layout without partition walls. Materials are predominantly natural and untreated, aligning with the spatial philosophy of sensory grounding.
Tags: Emotional Dwelling, Poetic Minimalism, Miao Culture, Nature Inspired Interior, Raw Materials, Timeless Design, Slow Living, Cultural Resonance, Organic Textures, Meditative Space
Production Technology: The project adopts a material first approach rooted in authenticity. Teak wood was used untreated to preserve its warmth and grain, while blackened anti corrosion timber adds weight and durability. Hand applied mud walls and artistic paint deliver texture and tone without ornament. The approach emphasized manual craftsmanship and intuitive layering over mechanical precision.
Design Challenge: The primary challenge was resisting conventional luxury symbols and instead crafting a space of deep emotional value. Balancing the owner's cultural identity with modern comfort required nuanced material choices, emotional mapping, and conceptual restraint. The absence of visual drama demanded heightened attention to detail, proportion, and sensory atmosphere.
Research: This is an applied cultural emotional design study exploring how spatial language can translate heritage and emotional needs into form. The methodology involved user immersion, ethnographic interviews, and contextual material selection. The homeowner's daily habits, values, and sensory preferences were key data points. The result is a space that not only houses the body but also resonates with memory, ritual, and inner calm enhancing the broader conversation on design’s emotional efficacy.
Inspiration: The homeowner's Miao heritage and natural lifestyle philosophy inspired a design that values emotional depth over surface form. Influenced by vernacular dwellings and poetic Eastern aesthetics, the concept centers on the idea of a home as a place of stillness, reflection, and healing. Rain falling on tiles, shifting light across earth toned walls, and silence within wooden textures form the emotional blueprint for the space.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2024 in Suzhou, China and finished in January 2025.
Operation Flow: The space invites slow, unstructured interaction. There are no dominant visual cues or rigid furniture placements. Instead, the flow is organic light guides the user, and silence defines transitions. It's not about usage, but co existence: the homeowner doesn't use the space, she dwells within it, rhythmically, intuitively.
Team Members: Designer: Chen Kezhi
Designer: Wang Huaqiang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.