Cha-Mi ʻo Ke Keʻena Lapaʻau Kina by Li-Yu Cheng

Cha-Mi ʻo Ke Keʻena Lapaʻau Kina by Li-Yu Cheng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Loko Hale a me Hōʻike Competition Category.

KeleaweLoko Hale· 2021

Cha-Mi ʻo Ke Keʻena Lapaʻau Kina

by Li-Yu Cheng

Client: StudioX4

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Loko Hale Category

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The Design

About Cha-Mi ʻo Ke Keʻena Lapaʻau Kina

Aia ma ke kūlanakauhale ʻo Taipei, mālama ʻia kēia keʻena keʻena hana i kahi kūlana o ka halemai i hoʻopuni ʻia, e pale ana i nā ala lōʻihi loa ma waena o nā lumi kūkākūkā, he mea aloha ʻole i ka poʻe kahiko a ke kumu i nā makapō. Hoʻokumu ka master-planning i ka centralization ma o ka decentralization o ka hoʻonohonoho maʻamau, ka hoʻopuehu ʻana i nā ala o nā keʻena lapaʻau a me ka hoʻokumu ʻana i kahi hoʻolālā pōʻai waena. Hoʻohui ʻia nā ʻōnaehana automation akamai i ka hoʻopaʻa inoa, dispensary, a me ka wehewehe ʻana i ka uku, ʻaʻole i ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi o ke kaʻina kūkākūkā, akā hoʻokō pū me nā ʻano ʻenehana-ola e hiki mai ana i ka wā e hiki mai ana.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Cha-Mi ʻo Ke Keʻena Lapaʻau Kina i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Cha-Mi ʻo Ke Keʻena Lapaʻau Kina he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā Cha-Mi ʻo Ke Keʻena Lapaʻau Kina i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Amid downtown, converged at traditional food markets and financial hubs, Songshan district of Taipei city, contrary to common storefronts at the ground floor, Cha-Mi Chinese Medicine clinic is situated at the third story of the building, providing higher privacy to patients. Within 495 square meter of space, the interior comprises consulting rooms, the dispensary, VIP therapy rooms, and laboratories.
Dimensions & Packaging: Construction area 495 square meter.
Tags: Wood, Wood-working, Minimalism, Oriental Design, Clinic Design
Production Technology: Concentric form is naturally innate existence like a seed, whose round and effortless contour avert indifference stereotypes of a clinic and sooth mental pressure for patients. Away from redundant colors, clean white backdrops and woodworks in oak took minimal usage of material, resonating calm ambiance. Light freely transmits through three elevations of heights, which better illumination condition and create enticing visuality.
Design Challenge: Moreover, in order to provide better medical service, intelligent automation systems are installed and integrated at registration, dispensary, and description payment, which not only shorten the consulting process, but also comply with tech-life trends coming in the near future.
Research: Another mention that, people barely notice the actual presence of herb therapy, which derives from withered grass. While seasonal herbal grasses flourish in 6 test tubes around registration, the uncertainty of life and death is awakened, echoing to daily errands of the clinic, resonating like an endless loop.
Inspiration: Based on Chinese character denotation, Cha refers to tea and Mi means rice. Probing to derivative connotation, tea is made from herb and rice is essential to meal. Our client started this clinic, expecting to help patients get recovered with effective and harmless herbal therapy.
Project Duration: Started from November 2019 and finished in June 2020. Taipei city.
Operation Flow: Every well-rounded hospital concerns a safety issue of avoiding excessively long passage between consulting rooms, which easily causes blind spots and is unfriendly to the elders. How to configure appropriate passages for patients thus becomes the first concern of this project. Inspired by the contour of satellite, disperses routes of therapy rooms and re-merges with registration and dispensary sections forms a centralized-circle layout; in other words, the master-planning forges centralization by decentralization of regular compartmental layout.
Patents: Copyrights belong to StudioX4.
Team Members: Li-Yu Cheng
Yu-Chen Chen
Image Credits: YHLAA