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Lights Residential Space by Chen Hung-Chou and Chang Kai-Hsien Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Chen Hung-Chou and Chang Kai-Hsien acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Lights Residential Space by Chen Hung-Chou and Chang Kai-Hsien, designed for Inspire Design Company. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Lights Residential Space
Lights is a residential interior design for a five-story house in Taiwan shared by three generations. Each floor is planned around the taste of its users. The first and second floors use the high ceiling and large windows to create a bright and spacious area for guests. The third and fourth floors hold bedrooms in a simple style with industrial details. The fifth floor is a studio and display area finished with oriented strand board for sound isolation. A new spiral staircase, lit by LED lamps set behind the steps, connects all levels. Natural wood and marble are used throughout.
About Chen Hung-Chou and Chang Kai-Hsien
Inspire Design Company was founded in 2006 and has always focused on the spatial design fields of personal living spaces and corporate customers' working spaces, including the foreign companies in Taiwan. We have rich planning experience of creating comfortable and healthy working and living environment for different industries; we have ever faced plenty of harsh construction tasks and solved these challenges smoothly; every single detail has to be implemented perfectly and it is what we do to satisfy our customers.
Award Record
This recognition makes Chen Hung-Chou and Chang Kai-Hsien a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/89620
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/89620
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!89620
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/254724
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://bit.ly/2vdCARj
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Lights Residential Space
- Function
- Residential Space
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dim Gray, Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray, Gray and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Inspire Design Company
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chen Hung-Chou and Chang Kai-Hsien
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #89620
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Designer uses the house' original high-ceiling advantage to create a spacious space atmosphere and selects the natural woods and marble to decorate space. The owner couple and their kids are the users for the 3rd and 4th floors; the younger generation prefers a simple, stylish, and a little bit of industrial loft style for creating a youthful vigor and living atmosphere, which is a completely different atmosphere from the one that the elder generation likes. The 5th floor is the male owner's studio and an exhibition area for his collected action figures as well.
- Inspiration
- As this project is a five stories building, the division and characteristic for each area have to be quite clear. The spaces will be partitioned by the users' individual tastes and preferences and be cleverly connected through delicately decorative details; what these decorations do is to meet with the house owner's requirements, create an exclusive life experience, and make a clear position about home at the end.
- Research
- The house owner's mother is the major space user for the 1st and 2nd floors where she usually hosts many friends and relatives. Therefore, the designer uses the house' original high-ceiling advantage to create a spacious space atmosphere; The 5th floor is the male owner's studio the designer especially uses the Oriented Strand Board to enhance the effects of sound isolation and adopts the unfixed design for the layers to further upgrade the storage function and make it a flexible use.
- Challenge
- As there are a lot of complex factors in this space, such as the five-stories terraced house and three generations living under one roof, the designer has to think comprehensively how to make an exclusive interior environment for the house owner and fix the problems, and each area demonstrates its unique feature and user's personality, and it is a place where family members can feel relaxed moments and enjoy comfortable life quality.
- Realization and Technology
- The staircase plays the role of how to connect all the floors perfectly. Designer decides to tear down the original and traditional staircase and designs a new spiral staircase to create a refreshing space decoration, meanwhile, the styles of the spiral staircases change and echo with the designs on different floors. In addition, there are LED lamps mounted on the back sides of stairs, which use the soft and warm light to decorate the spaces between stairs and make the entire structure look light visually.
- Operation and Interaction
- The 1st floor as the living room, dining room, and kitchen. The 5-meter-height ceiling is the natural advantage of the living room that sufficient sunlight can be cast into the interior environment through large windows. There are two areas planned for the kitchen space, one is the kitchen island and the other one is the individual cooking area. The skylight is used for enhancing the natural lighting to create a spacious cooking field with sufficient sunlight, looking like the indoor and outdoor space combined without partition.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2017 in Taiwan and finished in February 2018.
- Specifications
- The family room is on the 2nd floor which closely connects the 1st floor through the wood-grilled sliding door. The bedrooms, multiple-function room, and owner's studio are located from the 3rd to 5th floor respectively.
- Keywords
- Three generations live under one roof, spiral staircase, style contrast, structural calculation
