Transparency ʻo Ka Hoʻolālā Hale Noho by Li-Yu Cheng

Transparency ʻo Ka Hoʻolālā Hale Noho by Li-Yu Cheng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Loko Hale a me Hōʻike Competition Category.

KalaLoko Hale· 2021

Transparency ʻo Ka Hoʻolālā Hale Noho

by Li-Yu Cheng

Client: StudioX4

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Loko Hale Category

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The Design

About Transparency ʻo Ka Hoʻolālā Hale Noho

Hoʻopili ʻia ka nui, ka like ʻana, a me ke komo ʻana i ka nohona minimalism, e ulu ana i ka ʻoluʻolu o nā pono kino i hoʻopaʻa ʻia me nā pōʻaiapili paʻakikī. Ke ʻimi nei i nā manaʻo o ka pilina metaphysics, hui hou kēia keʻena i nā kūʻē like ʻole ma waena o nā pihi a me nā kihi, nā kila i poni ʻia a me nā sima sima, e hana ana i kahi hui kūpono. Manaʻo pinepine ʻia ka pā ma ke ʻano he ʻāpana hoʻokahi o kahi anga. Ma hope o ka hoʻopili ʻia ʻana me ke kila kuhili ʻole, hoʻololi ʻia ka pā i loko o kahi mea lawe hana, lawe kīhini, waiho ʻana, paipu, air-cons… etc.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Transparency ʻo Ka Hoʻolālā Hale Noho i ka A' Design Award Kala, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kiʻekiʻe loa, nani a kupaianaha. He mau hana ʻālohilohi loa a hana noʻeau nui nā lanakila Kala e hōʻike ana i ka loea, ka makakoho a me ka ʻoi aku o ka noʻonoʻo o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Transparency ʻo Ka Hoʻolālā Hale Noho he hana kupaianaha, kūlana ʻoi aku, ʻoihana kiʻekiʻe a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Kala he mea hoʻokumu kūpono loa, mahalo ʻia e hāʻawi i ka pōmaikaʻi a hoʻoneʻe i nā palena o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana. He mea i ʻeleu ʻia e nā mea he nui ka hoʻolālā Transparency ʻo Ka Hoʻolālā Hale Noho e hoʻāla i ka makemake, lawe mai i nā manaʻo maikaʻi a hoʻāla i ka kamahaʻo a me ka mahalo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Aiming to build up an airy, see-through, light-weight, new simple form of living capacity, this residential apartment is conceptualized by connotations beneath the process of probing metaphysics relation.
Dimensions & Packaging: Construction area 122 square meter.
Tags: Stainless Steel, Metal Fabrication, Minimalism, Metaphysics, Steel Wire, Glass Brick
Production Technology: Massing, proportion, and penetration are involved to be composed of architecture interior space. The wall is considered as a single composition of a three-dimensional framework. After being covered with bent stainless steel, the wall metamorphoses into a functional carrier, which encompasses lighting, bears kitchen, sanitary, storage, pipes, air con, essential fixtures of daily living. While natural light refracts into the curvy wall, its hairline luster adds an enticing touch to spatial forms and expression.
Design Challenge: Restrained by limited passage of stairway, from assembly, welding, polishing, the wire shelving free standing was completely tailor-made on site. The shelving is asymmetrical and it develops its shape through on-site exploration. Every shelf and wire rod is joined with precise measurements and proportion. The consequence adapts to actual condition, culminating with a light-weight but powerful massing with practical functions.
Research: Possible conditions of light, such as opaque and transparency, light transmission and ambient occlusion, generate optical illusions; nevertheless, geometry and linear misalignment can also lead to another visual deception. The consequence induces to think of the fundamental nature of reality, the relationship between substance and attribute, and between potentiality and actuality.
Inspiration: Habitation refers to way or style of living. The lifestyle sprouted from modernism after the industrial revolution era; nowadays, it evolves in an artful taste, the satisfaction of physical needs bonded with philosophical meaning. The minimalism lifestyle encompasses profound thoughts and intricate contexts, which let simplicity become enchanting but arduous to be formed.
Project Duration: Started from June 2020 and finished in Sep 2020. Taipei city.
Operation Flow: Intentionally and experimentally, reunite the integration of seeming contradictions among curves and angles, polylines and straight lines, polished steels and concrete cements, in which everything culminates with moderate fusion.
Patents: Copyrights belong to StudioX4.
Team Members: Li-Yu Cheng
Yu-Chen Chen
Image Credits: YHLAA