Sissis Wonderland 読書空間 by Leo Sun is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 金賞 in インテリア空間・展示デザイン Competition Category.

金インテリア· 2020

Sissis Wonderland 読書空間

by Leo Sun

Client: Muxin Studio

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

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The Design

About Sissis Wonderland 読書空間

「Sissis Wonderland」は、上海に位置する108平方メートルの子どものための読書空間です。プランニングはシャボン玉遊びから着想を得ており、スケールの異なる部屋同士が連なることで、開かれた領域とプライベートな領域が重なり合います。主要素材には木を用い、白い塗装とやわらかなグレーの床仕上げを組み合わせています。高さの異なる階段、座席を兼ねる本棚、ジグザグに折れるスロープ、小さなアーチは、いずれも子どもの身体寸法に合わせて設えられています。空間と空間が出会う場所には緑の植栽が育ちます。このデザインは、空間そのものを探検し遊ぶための大きなおもちゃへと変えています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金賞

Sissis Wonderland 読書空間は、まさに素晴らしく傑出した第一級のデザインに授与される、計り知れないほど権威ある評価である A' Design Award 金賞の受賞作品です。金賞の受賞作品は、きわめて革新的で、先見性に富み、きらびやかに輝く創造物であり、デザイナーの天才性、叡智、卓越した技量を映し出しています。Sissis Wonderland 読書空間は、最も称賛される、流行を牽引する記念碑的な発明であり、前例のない価値をもたらすことが期待されます。この A' Design Award 金賞を受賞したデザインは、壮観で尊敬されるプロジェクトであり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に大きく寄与し、それを前進させます。Sissis Wonderland 読書空間は、強い欲求を生み出し、情熱を呼び覚まし、創造性を促し、私たちを引きつけます。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: After careful researches on various existing cases, designers found that the traditional way of children space design, with its flamboyant decoration, superficial embellishment and excessive use of meaningless figures, has lost its attractiveness. Hence they choose to make the project different by concentrate on the shape of the space itself, it's an attempt to turn the space itself into a giant toy, in which children can freely explore, discover and create their own lively experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 108 square meters. Thinking from the perspective of a child, designers planned and divided the space in children's scales. Though spatially limited by the floor area, they managed to squeeze in stairs with different heights, bookshelves that also serves as chairs, zigzagging ramps and mini arches in children's size. All of these are in children's scale. Boys and girls can climb up and down or play hide-and-seek in these facilities without parents worrying about potential dangers and injuries.
Tags: Interior, Parent-child Reading Space, Modern, Simple, Art, Interesting, Bubbles, Muxin Studio, Nature
Production Technology: In order to elicit an amicable relationship between the space created and the surrounding plants, as well as to bring children closer to the nature, designers use wood as the main building material. The selection of white paint and the soft grey floor glue further guarantees the children a safe and interesting place to play, learn and interact. They grow green plants on the boundaries where different spaces meet, which helps sustaining the dynamic among person, space and nature.
Design Challenge: The main topic of the project is to give different configurations according to different realms in spaces. Since spaces with different functions communicate and fusion with each other, a multitude of spatial forms and hierarchies are created.
Research: The varieties of spatial typology provide children with experiential guidance to explore boundaries between public and private spaces. During the process of moving through spaces with various qualities, the Introvert and extrovert tendencies of children are well reflected in their behaviors. In the experimental children reading space project, designers are aiming to create a cozy and amicable places for children to read and play, a place that inspires their imagination and creativity.
Inspiration: The configuration of spaces follows an idea inspired by the game of blowing bubbles: several spaces are arranged according to their scales and functions before recombined and attached like bubbles. Since spaces with different functions communicate and fusion with each other, a multitude of spatial forms and hierarchies are created, in which openness and independence, public and private, interior and exterior are overlapped and interconnected in a creative and pleasant way.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2018 in Shanghai and finished in November 2018 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow: According to many researches, children of three to seven years old are in their most sensitive period of growing from their subjective worlds to the objective world. A flowing space like this helps expanding their perceiving and communicating abilities and reveal the true and creative nature in a child.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Leo Sun, 2018.
Team Members: Yves Zhang
Leo Sun
Yiye Zhang
Dawei Jiang
Shuhang Zhang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Bookshelves, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Mini Arches, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Reading Space, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Reading Space 2, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Corridor, 2018.