ReRoot 住宅 by Maggie Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 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· 2020

ReRoot 住宅

by Maggie Yu

Client: TMIDStudio

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

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The Design

About ReRoot 住宅

この改修プロジェクトでは、デザインは居住者の新しいニーズとアイデアを古いスペースの既存の条件と統合しました。改装された古いアパートは、斬新なデザイン手法を使用して空間に異なる外観と意味を引き出すことにより、より多様な目的を提供しました。最も重要なことは、このスペースは、愛情深い思い出が彼の子供時代から築かれた場所である所有者への感情的なアンカーとしても機能します。このプロジェクトは、所有者の感情的なつながりを維持しながら、古いスペースの改修を実証しました。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅賞

ReRoot 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。ReRoot 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。ReRoot 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: When considering a renovation, a designer needs to integrate the new needs and ideas of the occupants with the existing conditions of the old space. To provide more diversified purposes, and use novel design methods to bring out the space different looks and meanings. In this case, the space also serves another emotional aspect, a childhood memories from the owner who inherent the apartment from his parents. How to reconstruct the space with preservation of his emotional connection become one major challenge of this project.
Dimensions & Packaging: This project is about 149 square meters, located in Taipei City.
Tags: Interior Design, Residential, House, Space
Production Technology: To retain the essence of the old era and bring out the embodiment of contemporary design, we must let the hardware and building materials, air and light of the home space, and the abstraction of continuity and inheritance, be integrated into the design through the perception and touch of the living experience. Using the nature of the structure, it guides the three characteristics of simple, natural and individual into a design.
Design Challenge: With confining the electrical and water ducts to the very small space below the ceiling, the design successfully creates an opening space with high ceiling to embrace and welcome the new family members.
Research: The project is located in Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan, one of cities which needs for renovation. In this project, we wish to find a balance between retain and repurposing of an old apartment which contained so much personal memories, yet need a modern space for the new leaves and memories to grow.
Inspiration: Inheriting from the bloodline of the previous generation, this project covers the owner's memories of growing up as a child, especially the spirit of deferred thoughts and culture of the loved ones. We hope to the chisels this old space to fit family context in the future living purpose.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2018 and finished in June 2018 in Taipei,Taiwan.
Operation Flow: We overthrow the original space partitions and moving lines, but choose to keep parts of exposed reinforced concrete, a resemble of his origin and a Root to childhood memories of the owner. A loving space where he grew up and supports him to become who he is today, an architect. Simplicity is the best note for the homeowner. In the transformation of perception into spatial shape, the limitations of hue, material and space height are integrated, and finally the life, memory and continuation of the resonance given by the space are depicted.
Team Members: MAGGIE YU
HUANG MING WEI
CHOU YI KUAN
Image Credits: Moooten Studio