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A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Live in Letters Residence by Chia Ling Sun

Chia Ling Sun recognized 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 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Live in Letters Residence by Chia Ling Sun, designed for ADC space design. 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.

About the A' Design Award

The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.

Regarding Live in Letters Residence

Live in Letters is a residential interior design in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. The 146.6 square metre home was created for a client with large book storage needs and a preference for black-based space. A large black book wall is built with iron and steel frames, layered with wood grain veneer and wooden shelves. The entrance sidewall is finished with Italian fresco stucco paint applied in random brush strokes. An irregular sofa, an amorphous television wall, an extra-long dining table for eight and a complete dressing room shape the layout.

Award Record

This recognition makes Chia Ling Sun 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. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is 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. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously 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. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which 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, uploading a work and receiving a 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. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Live in Letters Residence
Function
Residence
Category
Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture and Packaging & Retail
Colors
Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Linen and Dark Gray
Images
5
Client
ADC space design

The Recognition

Laureate
Chia Ling Sun
Country
Taiwan (China)
Recognition
A' Design Award
Edition
2019 - 2020
Design ID
#92855

Credits

Team
Chia-Ling Sun and Hsuan-Jung Pan

Design Details

Unique Properties
Succinct modern style suited cultural people with taste. Black-based space is trendy and full of delicate sense of a gallery. Irregular configuration of an unruly living room sofa and an amorphous TV wall shows uniqueness of the black, white and grey coloured space with light boxes and iron pieces just like the modern innovative Co-working Space with comfortable freestyle. Extra-long dining table for 8 people, equipped with complete set dressing room, make people feel a luxurious stay.
Inspiration
Starting from large book storage demand of single male client, and preference for black-base space, the style and tone of the case were developed and constructed. Architect Tadao Ando pointed out: Hidden in the field of vision will awaken creativity. The design prototype was designed from the reference of bookstore design, gradually create this unpredictable, simple yet original "Co-working Space Sense" a distinctive space.
Research
ADC design team excels at the reinterpretation of space design, and its works are always to meet the design code, with the spirit of Maslow's hierarchy of needs ladder. In this case, the ADC not only satisfies the space requirements of the client, but also emerge the artistic and spiritual nature of space and achieves the self-realization of space.
Challenge
Industrial style track lamps assembled by design team, lamp holders and strips are welded. Many complicated processes appear beyond team's expectations. To achieve good results, the team aim for the project's meticulous work and execution. Also, the whole space paint construction period is longer than expected, it was major obstacle. The color paint leap design, the layered brush effect, and the texture supervision of the plaster spray facade testing the design team's project control ability.
Realization and Technology
Entrance sidewall painted with Italian Fresco stucco paint, random brush touch, look trendy and original in black-base space. Massive black book wall is displayed in iron and steel frames, several are layered with wood grain veneer and wood shelf. The wooden material not only look fine and exquisite also gives fresh and warm spatial tone. The open public area has a structural column separates the guest dining hall and the junction, it is designed into a light box, and turned into a space art.
Operation and Interaction
After entering the complete set of the dressing room, the iron hanger on the right side of the entrance has a push-pull function, high storage capacity, easy to operate, iron design, also suitable proportion for sharing cabinet, make space looks lighter and modern. Together with the right-side wall surface build geometric totem streamlined that create a visual center core, and it is a special and unique combination with other materials.
Project Duration and Location
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan in 2019
Specifications
The space area is 146.6m2, an irregular configuration of the living room sofa, amorphous TV wall, the extra-long dining table for 8 people, and complete set of the dressing room, make the living scale of 146,6 m2 psychologically very comfortable. Among them, the massive book wall frame of the living room has been equipped with a disassembled plate, which can be changed into a wall surface for TV wall at any time; the sofa unidirectional two-way one-way can also be adjusted in both directions.
Keywords
A Live-in Gallery, Co-working Space, Dark humanistic Fashion, TV Wall, Iron Industrial Style, Artistic Paint, Light Box Design

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