Back To One's True Nature Résidence by Hsuan Ting Kuo

Back To One's True Nature Résidence by Hsuan Ting Kuo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design d'Intérieur Competition Category.

BronzeIntérieur· 2023

Back To One's True Nature Résidence

by Hsuan Ting Kuo

Client: XIN DAN design

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Intérieur Category

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The Design

About Back To One's True Nature Résidence

Retour à sa Vraie Nature, une résidence en duplex qu'un couple partage avec leur mère, présente un design qui maximise l'ouverture et la luminosité de l'agencement. Les couloirs divisant l'espace sont réduits, et les flux principaux et secondaires sont configurés en fonction des besoins fonctionnels. Ainsi, l'espace devient un contenant de vie centré sur les habitudes quotidiennes et les besoins de ses habitants et est divisé en domaines principal et secondaire qui englobent à la fois une zone privée à usage personnel et une section commune pour les interactions familiales.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Back To One's True Nature Résidence est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Back To One's True Nature Résidence est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Back To One's True Nature Résidence satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: As an avid mountain-climber, the homeowner wishes to relish the openness and joy upon reaching the summit even at home. Hence the design team installs a bluish green marble wall at the entryway and adorns the ceiling with three-dimensional curves to resemble the beautiful contour of mountain ridges. The living-dining room section has an open layout, and at every angle it looks like a complete painting without any blind spot.
Dimensions & Packaging: 206m2
Tags: TSAI HSIN HUA, KUO HSUAN TING, Residential House, XIN DAN design, bluish green marble wall
Production Technology: The living room and the dining room are separated by the ceiling, whose indirect recessed lighting makes the illumination even and coherent and whose chamfered edges also enhance elegance and rhythm. The severed TV-wall marble deliberately leaves a tapering fissure leading from the living room to the ancestral hall to connect the two sections. The narrow facets of the marble cuts are veneered with titanium-plated metal.
Design Challenge: In tune with the homeowner’s character, the design features low-chroma earth tones to shape a simple but grand layout. Seamless cloth makes the walls look complete, and, together with hardwood veins, creates a warm, homey feel and accents layers in the space. Solemn and serene like a mountain, the residence is refreshing and pleasant, allowing one to go back to one’s true nature, just like how one feels upon reaching the summit.
Research: The study between the living room and the master bedroom is a transition that, defined by sliding doors of different sizes and display cabinets, looks neat and orderly. As the glass sliding door between the study and the living room can be opened and closed at will, the male homeowner can use the computer in the study while the female homeowner and his mother can enjoy themselves in the sofa area, each taking delight in their separate spaces and yet interacting simultaneously.
Inspiration: Back to One’s True Nature, a duplex residence a couple shares with their mother, features a design that maximizes the layout’s openness and brightness. Hallways dividing the space are reduced, and the main and secondary flows are configured based on functional needs. Thus the space becomes a container of life centering on its dwellers’ daily habits and needs and is divided into the main and secondary domains that encompass both a private area for personal use and a shared section for the family to interact.
Project Duration: The project finished in September 2022 in Taipei City, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: Kitchenware for both Chinese and Western cuisines is installed. The Chinese section is defined by a sliding door to prevent smoke and fume from permeating everywhere. In the Western kitchen, the white cabinetry is coherent with the colors in the living-dining room, and stone used on the walls and the tiles further accentuates elegance in the section.It is where the family usually sit sampling tea, and is ideal for entertaining friends and relatives on holidays.
Team Members: TSAI HSIN HUA
KUO HSUAN TING
Image Credits: Weimax Studio