Nuanced Light Hoʻolālā ʻO Loko no ka Hale Noho by Joe Chen and Anthea Chien

Nuanced Light Hoʻolālā ʻO Loko no ka Hale Noho by Joe Chen and Anthea Chien is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Hao in Hoʻolālā Loko Hale a me Hōʻike Competition Category.

HaoLoko Hale· 2020

Nuanced Light Hoʻolālā ʻO Loko no ka Hale Noho

by Joe Chen and Anthea Chien

Client: JC Design

A' Design Award Hao Winner in Loko Hale Category

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The Design

About Nuanced Light Hoʻolālā ʻO Loko no ka Hale Noho

Nuanced Light ʻo ia ka hoʻolālā ʻo loko o kekahi hale hoʻomaha noho ma Taiwan, e uhi ana i 413 mika ʻāpana. Hoʻohālike hou ke kumu hoʻolālā i ke ʻano Art Deco o nā makahiki 1920. ʻIke ʻia nā kumu hoʻohālikelike ʻano geometrika hou aku ma ka mea hoʻonani paia a ma nā kukui hoʻolako. Hoʻonohonoho ʻia nā ʻāpana metala i loko o nā pale nui i hoʻopili ʻia me ka ʻeleʻele, keʻokeʻo, kālā, a hina paha. Hoʻohālikelike ke pōhaku mābela ʻano daimana ma ka papahele lānai me ka mea hoʻonani paia ma nā ʻaoʻao ʻelua. Hoʻokaʻawale nā poloka lāʻau ʻeleʻele ʻano hexagona me nā kaʻe gula i nā keʻena noho a ʻaina i hoʻohālikelike pono ʻia.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hao

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Nuanced Light Hoʻolālā ʻO Loko no ka Hale Noho i ka A' Design Award Hao, he ʻike hoʻohanohano i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā maikaʻi e hoʻokō ana i nā koi ʻoihana a ʻoihana hana i manaʻo ʻia mai nā mea hoʻokumu i hana maikaʻi ʻia. Hōʻike nā lanakila Hao i ka mākau nui, ka loea kiʻekiʻe, ka ʻike akamai a me ka hiki hana noʻeau o ka poʻe i hana iā lākou. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Nuanced Light Hoʻolālā ʻO Loko no ka Hale Noho he mea hoʻokumu i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia e pono a hou. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Hao e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka ʻoihana a loaʻa nā ʻano ʻenehana mākaukau i hui pū ʻia me ka ʻike hana a me ka makakoho. Mahalo ʻia ka hoʻolālā Nuanced Light Hoʻolālā ʻO Loko no ka Hale Noho no kona nānā pono a ua hoʻolālā ʻia e hāʻawi i nā hoʻomaikaʻi ola e kōkua ai i ka hana ʻana i ka honua i wahi maikaʻi aku.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The designer works on the iconic Art Deco style, balancing the modular mechanical repetition of the 1920s Euro-American style with a vocabulary of individualized softness. The multi-layers of magnificent cladding bolster the needs of a modern holiday villa, sprinkling with breathes of grandioseness.
Dimensions & Packaging: An area of space is 413 square meters.
Tags: Residential, deco, western, luxury, modern
Production Technology: The pattern of repetitive geometry on wall decoration and light fixtures takes cues from the reductive decoration motif of New York architecture in the 1920s. The metallic luster is inlayed in the large panels of black, white, silver, and grey peripheral frames. The interwoven thinking of western aesthetics and oriental equilibrium lurks underneath the luxury of glaring glamor.
Design Challenge: The materiality and color are subordinate to the intersecting lines, encircling yet not noisy. The lines become simplified Upton entering the bedrooms, accomodating the functionality of storage and sleeping within an ordered framework. The frame-like design of the study-room cupboard doubles as a storage and display shelf. The dark blue of boy’s room is soften by the beige white of girl’s room.
Research: The black hexagonal woodblocks with golden rims define the symmetrical configuration of living and dining rooms. The corridor threads through the two places from the porch. The vista is a painting with heavy, rich colors, balancing the lightness of the ubiquitous geometry on the wallpapers.
Inspiration: The project transfigured the Art Deco villa of 1920s. It converges the radiant lines and patterns into the order of longitudinal and traversal sections. The planar geometry unfolds into a three-dimensional one. The composition of folding and extension of the lines and planes on ceiling and floor becomes the main element of the surrounding space. Under the seemingly complicated material and patterns, the designer distinguishes the nuanced functionality of each space.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2017 in Taiwan and finished in February 2018 in Taiwan.
Operation Flow: The diamond-shaped marble on the porch floor echoes the wall decoration on both sides, unraveling the main theme of the villa—the subdued luxury. The black hexagonal woodblocks with golden rims define the symmetrical configuration of living and dining rooms. The corridor threads through the two places from the porch. The vista is a painting with heavy, rich colors, balancing the lightness of the ubiquitous geometry on the wallpapers.
Team Members: Joe Chen
Anthea Chien
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer JC Design Ltd.
Image #2: Photographer JC Design Ltd.
Image #3: Photographer JC Design Ltd.
Image #4: Photographer JC Design Ltd.
Image #5: Photographer JC Design Ltd.