Where The Root Is Primary Function: Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena Hana by Carlie Ling - K.D Hsu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Kala in Hoʻolālā Loko Hale a me Hōʻike Competition Category.
KalaLoko Hale· 2020
Where The Root Is Primary Function: Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena Hana
Client: Design Onboard
A' Design Award Kala Winner in Loko Hale Category
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About Where The Root Is Primary Function: Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena Hana
Book Text: ʻO Where The Root Is he keʻena hana kūloko aia i loko o kekahi hale mōʻaukala ma ke kikowaena o Shanghai. ʻO ke aʻa o ka lāʻau ka manaʻo nui o ka hoʻolālā ʻana. Kau nā laina lāʻau walnut ʻeleʻele ma ka pili pālahalaha e hōʻike ana i nā aʻa i ulana pū ʻia. Hōʻailona ka papahele lāʻau i hoʻonaninani ʻia a me nā pale grille lāʻau i ke kaʻa ʻana a me ka hoʻohana ʻana, aʻo nā pale hāmama e ʻae i ka mālamalama a me ka ea e hele aku. Hoʻokipa kekahi wahi hoʻokipa kī i nā malihini a me nā hoa ʻoihana. Hāʻawi ke kāpeti hina a me ka uhi paia hulu i ke kūlana mālie o kahi hana, a ua hoʻokaʻawale ʻia ke keʻena luna e hōʻoiaʻiʻo i ka pilikino.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Kala
Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Where The Root Is Primary Function: Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena Hana 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 Where The Root Is Primary Function: Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena Hana 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 Where The Root Is Primary Function: Hoʻolālā Kūloko Keʻena Hana 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
- The client of this project is a high-achieving young entrepreneur with great strategic view from Shanghai. He Choose the HsingKuo Building, in the center of Shanghai City, to be the location of the headquarter, situated in a historic building imbued with dark walnut-texture design vocabulary so that all guests and employees can be greeted with a traditional Chinese tea-style reception, so that all professional partners can have a relaxing tea-tasting space for interaction.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The interior was planned to accommodate guest reception and office usage, with the open-plan layout for the interactive domain when visitors arrived, as the aroma of quality tea inundated the interior made of widely-used walnut texture and color, as well on screens styled based on classic Chinese window lattices while the transparency afforded by the screen providing good ventilation and light penetration.
- Tags
- Chinese Tea Art, Office, Wooden Screen,Walnut Timber,Grey Color, High-Tech Woven Fabric
- Production Technology
- With Circular Sky and Square Earth as the design core which borrowed from the ancient Chinese concept of Round Sky as Roof over the Grid of Earth, the flat ceiling intersected with timber line work to manifest the interwoven roots of Trees, an enriched image of premium spatial quality, while patterned timber flooring and wooden grille screen outline circulation and usage demarcation in a subtle yet connective fashion.
- Design Challenge
- With such old building in Shanghai, the lack of ceiling height, and of column interval, the design featured lightweight ceiling work and darkened walnut flooring so as to connect with repetitive storage volumes that extends the overall spatial-visual, while the timber grille screen brings transparency and layered quality from different angles, as the open and flexible screen also skillfully divided yet casually connected each sub-spaces.
- Research
- Around the project site, there are many old trees with winding branches and roots framed by black metal window frames, as the exterior greenery was brought into the interior, permeating through glass partitions before forming an array of layered visuals of light, shadow, and trees. As much the interior was given a consistent warmth, it has also become a space for gathering and consolidation via interaction, epitomized by the interwoven eastern ambiance with western simple line work.
- Inspiration
- With the unique urban qualities of Shanghai that epitomizes the intersection of East and West, this project is located in a residential building of western-influenced exterior and the old Shanghai-styling interior, a unique elegance in itself. The design team utilized the Root as the core design concept, and dark walnut-texture symbolizing Trees and its steadiness, all of which articulated the stern quality the corporation represents.
- Project Duration
- The project was completed in May 2019 in Shanghai.
- Operation Flow
- As the office was treated with grey-color carpet and wool wall carpet for a pure and elegant office ambiance, the office of the supervisor was well concealed and separated from the other open spaces, along with its own tea-tasting room furniture by humble chairs and wooden tables from Ming Dynasty, to ensure privacy, while the back of the room was treated with grey tiles covered by high-tech woven fabric, reminiscence of the traditional Chinese wisdom re-interpreted with modern design vocabulary.
- Team Members
- Kai Ning Ling
Kai Ti Hsu - Image Credits
- Kai-Ti Hsu
Zhao Wu
(2019)
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