Port Hale Hoʻomaha by Chu Chieh Liang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Loko Hale a me Hōʻike Competition Category.

KalaLoko Hale· 2025

Port Hale Hoʻomaha

by Chu Chieh Liang

Client: Senyi Interior Design

A' Design Award Kala Winner in Loko Hale Category

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The Design

About Port Hale Hoʻomaha

He hale hoʻomaha ʻo Port he 201.6 mika ʻāhuinahā ma Kaohsiung, Taiwan, me ka nānā aku i ke awa. Ua hoʻololi ʻia ka hoʻonohonoho mua o nā lumi moe ʻelua i ʻekolu lumi moe i hiki i ka ʻohana a me nā hoaaloha ke noho me ka ʻoluʻolu. He waihona lole ka pā ma waena o nā lumi moe ʻelua, e mālama ana i kahi ākea, e hoʻohui ana i wahi waiho ukana, a e hōʻemi ana i ka lele ʻana o ke kani. Hāʻawi ka wahi noho i ʻekolu wahi ʻākoakoa: kahi sofa, kahi papaʻaina, a me kahi pā inu i kau ʻia ma nā ʻaoʻao kūʻē. Hōʻemi ka waihoʻoluʻu ʻeleʻele, ke kaupoku kaha kaha, a me ke aniani ʻeleʻele ma lalo o ke kaola i ke kaumaha ʻike maka o nā kaola haʻahaʻa, a hoʻopalupalu nā kinona pihaʻā i loko o ka hale.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Kala

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Port Hale Hoʻomaha 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 Port Hale Hoʻomaha 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 Port Hale Hoʻomaha 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: To bring owner's family and friends to meet here from time to time, also stay for a few days, the design starts from the layout, to arrange the entryway, the spacious and comfortable feeling of the living room, the atmosphere of dining room, the multi-function bar and other functional fields. To adjust the two-bedroom layout to three bedrooms, so that the family and friends could stay comfortably in the vacation.
Dimensions & Packaging: This is the 201.6-sqm holiday home.
Tags: SENYI INTERIOR DESIGN , Interior Designer, Taiwan, Interior, Holiday Home
Production Technology: The owners have considered the structural problems such as low beam lines and large beams and columns. Therefore, the practice of not capping the roof is adopted, and the top surface is decorated with grille and flat nail ceiling, which avoids further compression of the height of the house while beautifying. Moreover, it starts from the color, to use the black color with retraction function, and then installs a black mirror at the bottom of the beam.
Design Challenge: The living room is designed with black tone and iron elements. Although it achieves the effect of hiding the roof beam and focusing the sight on the window scenery and furniture, it also creates a cool texture virtually. In order to avoid the space atmosphere is too hard and cold, the arc shape is appropriately added in the decoration, so as to play the role of softening the overall environment and adding a soft atmosphere.
Research: To meet the accommodation needs of a family of four members, one bedroom is divided into two bedrooms to achieve the purpose of increasing a bedroom. However, the engineering method of using bricks to form the compartment is abandoned, but using the wardrobe as a room wall, which avoids adding a new wall to compress the bedroom area, and just like adding a sound insulation equipment because of the hanging clothes in the wardrobe, while providing storage spaces for two bedrooms, with better effect of blocking the sound transmission.
Inspiration: In everyone's heart, there is a port for freedom, just like ship enters port. The house is located in the bay area of Kaohsiung, with a panoramic view of the Kaohsiung Harbor. The decoration not only creates a high-level luxurious black tone and the basic life quality and functions, but also highlights the beautiful scenery of sea and sky outside the window. The detail of construction method matches this case very well, which is the focus of the design.
Project Duration: The project took 7 months and was finished in May 2024 in Kaohsiung.
Operation Flow: In addition to being a holiday home, there is also the need to entertain relatives and friends. Therefore, by observing the habits of male and female owners, it is found that they prefer to communicate with their friends in different places. The dining table and the bar are specially placed at both ends to create a living area layout of three reception spaces, including the sofa zone. The male host is used to gathering with relatives and friends in the dining place, while the hostess, who likes to make tea and cook light food to entertain friends, uses the bar as the main gathering place.