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Doctors of Design Ọrụ Isi: Nhazi Ime Ụlọ Obibi by Hua Cheng and Hsiao-Li Lo

Doctors of Design Ọrụ Isi: Nhazi Ime Ụlọ Obibi by Hua Cheng and Hsiao-Li Lo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz in Nhazi Ime Ụlọ na Ngosipụta Competition Category.


BronzIme Ụlọ· 2021

Doctors of Design Ọrụ Isi: Nhazi Ime Ụlọ Obibi

by Hua Cheng and Hsiao-Li Lo

Client: Her Guang Interior Design

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz Winner in Ime Ụlọ Category

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The Design

About Doctors of Design Ọrụ Isi: Nhazi Ime Ụlọ Obibi

Ederede Akwụkwọ: Ndị Dọkịta nke Nhazi bụ nhazi ime ụlọ maka ụlọ obibi nwere ọnụ ụlọ ihi ụra abụọ dị mita kwaraite iri asaa na isii na New Taipei City. Ewepụrụ mgbidi dị n'etiti ọnụ ụlọ obibi na ọnụ ụlọ oriri iji melite otu ìhè na mmegharị si agafe n'ụlọ ahụ. Ọnụ ụlọ oriri ugbu a na-agakwa ozi dịka ebe a na-agụ akwụkwọ, na-arụ ọrụ na ọ na-aṅụ kọfị. Ọnụ ụzọ enyo mpịakọta nwere ike imechi ọnụ ụlọ oriri mgbe achọrọ nzuzo, ka ìhè ehihie ka na-abanye n'ime ya. Ihe eji arụ ya gụnyere osisi a wachara awacha, ohere ala nwere lamineeti, enyo nwere agba agba, enyo na-acha odo odo, na mbadamba osisi pine kpọrọ ike.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz

Doctors of Design Ọrụ Isi: Nhazi Ime Ụlọ Obibi meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị pụtara ìhè nke a ma ama maka nzụlite ihe, ọgụgụ isi na nghọta. Ndị meriri na Bronz bụ ihe e mere nke ndị nwere nka nke ukwuu ma dị mma n'imepụta nke na-egosi ahụmahụ buru ibu, echiche na ọgụgụ isi nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na Doctors of Design Ọrụ Isi: Nhazi Ime Ụlọ Obibi ga-abụ ihe a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz na-agụnye ụzọ kacha mma n'ime nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ, ma dị mma nke ukwuu maka nlebara anya ya n'obere ihe. Doctors of Design Ọrụ Isi: Nhazi Ime Ụlọ Obibi na-emezu mkpa nke ọma, na-emetụ ọchịchọ aka, na-adọrọ mmetụta obi ma na-adọta ọchịchọ ịmara.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
The approach removed the blockages of light, space and passage. In so doing, also united the spaces previously compartmentalized for reading, working, cooking and drinking coffee, thereby getting rid of not just the physical barriers between the spaces but also the emotional barriers between the activities designated for those spaces. The result is an openness that contributes toward a freeness of mind. A glass accordion-style door in the dining room, however, ensures that such sharing of light and space doesn’t come at the cost of privacy when needed.
Dimensions & Packaging
76 m2
Tags
Interior Design, Interior Designer, Home Decor, Japanese style, Wabi-sabi, MUJI
Production Technology
Blushing wooden veneer, Laminate flooring, Pattern glass, Tawny glass, Pine solid wood panel
Design Challenge
The couple’s home, a two-bedroom studio apartment, offered sufficient space, but made poor use of that space. Too many walls, partitions and standalone rooms blocked the flow of light and gave the home a claustrophobic feel. Thus, did away with the wall separating the living and dining rooms, replacing it with a less rigid partition, and allowing in more light. Opening up the living space in this manner also imparted a new center of gravity to the home’s common area, balancing it more soundly around the dining table and coffee station.
Research
A combination of two old words with overlapping definitions, wabi-sabi might be the Buddhist view of the facts of existence: Both life and art are beautiful not because they are perfect and eternal, but because they are imperfect and fleeting.
By David Watts Barton/ Japanology, April 2016
To design a space ideal for reading, cooking and enjoying good coffee. More importantly, clients required a home in which space and light would not only be optimized, but also utilized in a way that wouldn’t compromise their privacy or increase their use of air-conditioning and other utilities.
Inspiration
Like homeopathic medicine, the essence of wabi-sabi is apportioned in small doses. As the dose decreases, the effect becomes more potent, more profound. The closer things get to nonexistence, the more exquisite and evocative they become. Consequently to experience wabi-sabi means you have to slow way down, be patient and look very closely.
By Leonard Koren/Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Project Duration
The project started in January, 2019 and finished in July, 2019 in New Taipei City
Operation Flow
By remodeling the dining room after tearing down the living room wall, and creating a new space in which to eat, read and drink coffee, able to breathe new life into our clients’ leisure time. Also reshaped the contours of their home’s common areas to draw in and retain more light, replacing the home’s previous confining layout with lighter, airier atmospherics. The new lines and space tied the common areas together, instead of compartmentalizing them, and gave client couple not only new places and opportunities to interact and share meals together, but also new areas of privacy for reading and reflecting.
Team Members
Hua Cheng
Hsiao-Li,Lo
Image Credits
Image: Photographer Hsiao Hsiung Liang Yen,2019.

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