Back To One's True Nature 住宅 by Hsuan Ting Kuo

Back To One's True Nature 住宅 by Hsuan Ting Kuo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 銅賞 in インテリア空間・展示デザイン Competition Category.

銅インテリア· 2023

Back To One's True Nature 住宅

by Hsuan Ting Kuo

Client: XIN DAN design

A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in インテリア Category

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The Design

About Back To One's True Nature 住宅

「Back to One's True Nature（本来の姿へ）」は、夫婦とその母親が暮らすメゾネット住宅であり、プランの開放感と明るさを最大限に引き出すデザインが特徴です。空間を分断する廊下を最小限に抑え、機能上の必要性に応じて主動線と副動線を構成しました。これにより空間は、住まい手の日々の習慣や必要性を中心に据えた「暮らしの器」となり、個人が使うプライベートな領域と家族が交流する共有の領域の両方を包含する、主領域と副領域へと分けられています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅賞

Back To One's True Nature 住宅は、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Back To One's True Nature 住宅は、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Back To One's True Nature 住宅は、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: As an avid mountain-climber, the homeowner wishes to relish the openness and joy upon reaching the summit even at home. Hence the design team installs a bluish green marble wall at the entryway and adorns the ceiling with three-dimensional curves to resemble the beautiful contour of mountain ridges. The living-dining room section has an open layout, and at every angle it looks like a complete painting without any blind spot.
Dimensions & Packaging: 206m2
Tags: TSAI HSIN HUA, KUO HSUAN TING, Residential House, XIN DAN design, bluish green marble wall
Production Technology: The living room and the dining room are separated by the ceiling, whose indirect recessed lighting makes the illumination even and coherent and whose chamfered edges also enhance elegance and rhythm. The severed TV-wall marble deliberately leaves a tapering fissure leading from the living room to the ancestral hall to connect the two sections. The narrow facets of the marble cuts are veneered with titanium-plated metal.
Design Challenge: In tune with the homeowner’s character, the design features low-chroma earth tones to shape a simple but grand layout. Seamless cloth makes the walls look complete, and, together with hardwood veins, creates a warm, homey feel and accents layers in the space. Solemn and serene like a mountain, the residence is refreshing and pleasant, allowing one to go back to one’s true nature, just like how one feels upon reaching the summit.
Research: The study between the living room and the master bedroom is a transition that, defined by sliding doors of different sizes and display cabinets, looks neat and orderly. As the glass sliding door between the study and the living room can be opened and closed at will, the male homeowner can use the computer in the study while the female homeowner and his mother can enjoy themselves in the sofa area, each taking delight in their separate spaces and yet interacting simultaneously.
Inspiration: Back to One’s True Nature, a duplex residence a couple shares with their mother, features a design that maximizes the layout’s openness and brightness. Hallways dividing the space are reduced, and the main and secondary flows are configured based on functional needs. Thus the space becomes a container of life centering on its dwellers’ daily habits and needs and is divided into the main and secondary domains that encompass both a private area for personal use and a shared section for the family to interact.
Project Duration: The project finished in September 2022 in Taipei City, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: Kitchenware for both Chinese and Western cuisines is installed. The Chinese section is defined by a sliding door to prevent smoke and fume from permeating everywhere. In the Western kitchen, the white cabinetry is coherent with the colors in the living-dining room, and stone used on the walls and the tiles further accentuates elegance in the section.It is where the family usually sit sampling tea, and is ideal for entertaining friends and relatives on holidays.
Team Members: TSAI HSIN HUA
KUO HSUAN TING
Image Credits: Weimax Studio