The River is Everywhere Kev Tsim Qauv Tsev Nyob Sab Hauv by Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang

The River is Everywhere Kev Tsim Qauv Tsev Nyob Sab Hauv by Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Tooj in Tsim Chav Sab Hauv thiab Kev Nthuav Qhia Competition Category.

ToojSab Hauv· 2022

The River is Everywhere Kev Tsim Qauv Tsev Nyob Sab Hauv

by Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang

Client: 317studio

A' Design Award Tooj Winner in Sab Hauv Category

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The Design

About The River is Everywhere Kev Tsim Qauv Tsev Nyob Sab Hauv

Dej Nyob Txhua Qhov Chaw yog ib qho kev tsim qauv tsev nyob sab hauv rau ib lub tsev sib koom (apartment) 200 square-meters ntawm Taipei City. Kev tsim qauv no siv lub dej nyob ze thiab lub ntsiab lus ntawm kev taug kev ntawm ntsuj plig los ua qauv tsim. Lub kaus tsev ntawm qhov chaw nkag tau raug hloov kho dua ua ib txoj kab curve ntxiag zoo nkauj. Cov qhov qhib zoo sib txheeb rau ntawm daim phab ntsa cais chav nyob pom kev tsaus ntuj uas ua rau nco txog cov ntoo pom ntawm ib tug dej. Cov phab ntsa plaster tau ua tiav los ntawm tes kom ua tau lub qauv qhib kom huv thiab kaj lug. Ib lub rooj noj mov tshwj xeeb ua los ntawm marble thiab plastic sheet nrog ib txoj ceg iav curve sawv nyob nruab nrab ntawm qhov chaw.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Tooj

The River is Everywhere Kev Tsim Qauv Tsev Nyob Sab Hauv yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Tooj, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev uas muab rau cov qauv tsim tshwj xeeb uas txawv los ntawm kev tsim tshiab, kev txawj tsim thiab kev ntse. Cov neeg yeej Tooj yog cov khoom muaj txuj ci heev thiab tsim tshiab heev uas ua pov thawj txog kev paub ntau, kev xav thiab kev txawj ua ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. The River is Everywhere Kev Tsim Qauv Tsev Nyob Sab Hauv xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub, uas tshaj lij heev thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Tooj no siv cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis thiab zoo heev vim nws saib xyuas cov ntsiab lus. The River is Everywhere Kev Tsim Qauv Tsev Nyob Sab Hauv ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau zoo kawg, kov cov kev xav, ntxias cov kev xav thiab txhawb kev xav paub.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: Creating a journey on the river for the flow of space of the owners, Upon entering a 200-square-metre apartment, its living room’s the refined textures that first impress. The ceiling of entry was remodelled to create a sleek curved line, rhythm bores applied on partition walls in the living room were elegantly layered across the space to reflect the shadow of trees, like the scene from the river.
The wooden private space, it seems like a boundary between the rivers and caves warmly exits.
Dimensions & Packaging: 200-square-metre apartment
Tags: interior design, minimalist
Production Technology: By hand-craft plaster and specialist trades, the house creates an opportunity to experience the interior as a series of surfaces and textures.
We also hoped that utilising a tactile selection of material would give the space’s open floor plan a clean, brightly quality.
Dominating the centre of space is a bespoke dining counter crafted from marble and plastic sheet inlaid with a curved shape mirror leg where the sculptural object can slightly reflect natural lights and shadow movements.
Design Challenge: For the realization processes, we always conceive of ourselves as a conceptual and experimental designer with a more minimalist vision for the clients, but from a local social perspective in Taiwan, the design of residence has to use plenty of decorative elements to be magnificent.
We are intending to achieve the aesthetic of design methods and materials reconfigured and adapted to suit the needs of the local culture.
We hope that would be a magical way of process slowly extracts all the essences and aroma of Taiwan.
Research: Chinese had been developed the Xin Dian area along the river by boat since 1909. Nowadays, the development of the area has been built for river sightseeing and urban community.
The purpose of the research of the site location is to try to find out a connection between the background of the owner, the change of Xin Dian and its impacts through “homospatial thinking”.
We deeply believe that result of creating rivers and time flowing must necessarily become a unique experiment for the inhabitant to develop their own existence in the space.
Inspiration: Features of geography inspired us to make all of these things happen, such as a river surrounded by the apartment, watercourses surrounded by the location of the site.

The client’s background and story recall the character from the novel “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse.

Referencing the spiritual journey of self-discovery of the man in the book to the design minimalist language. The most attractive part is he learned and experienced through the river.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2020 in Taipei City and finished in May 2021.
Operation Flow: The keyframe is how to convert the invisible concept into the visible objects in the space.
Especially the concept is from a character who has been learned and experienced through the river.
We took the scenes that he saw, the means that he seeking to be free and open to profound in the inner of peace, to transforming the philosophy that we felt from the role in the book into the design processes.
We used the natural materials and form of function objects to complement the apartment’s placid interior.
It is an artful lesson on how to align comfort and simplicity.
Team Members: Tsai Yun Kao
Po Chang Lin
Kai Hung Yang
Image Credits: Main image and optional images: Photographer Kyle Yu, Variations, 2021.