Cozy Essence 住宅タウンハウス by Megalith Architects

Cozy Essence 住宅タウンハウス by Megalith Architects 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

Cozy Essence 住宅タウンハウス

by Megalith Architects

Client: Megalith Architects

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

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The Design

About Cozy Essence 住宅タウンハウス

設計チームは、明確な生活哲学を解釈しながら、居心地の良い環境を示すカスタマイズされた要素の統合を利用します。チームの信念に沿って、木と低彩度の壁の色を反映する太陽光のグラデーションを適用することにより、光の表現のアイデアを伝えるデザインを目指しています。家で1日近く過ごした写真家チームは、デザインはさまざまな素材、テクスチャ、色を使用することで視覚体験を最適化し、空間にエレガントな雰囲気を提供し、ユーザーに快適さをもたらすという本来の目的に沿っていると述べています。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅賞

Cozy Essence 住宅タウンハウスは、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。Cozy Essence 住宅タウンハウスは、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。Cozy Essence 住宅タウンハウスは、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: This project aims to convey the concept of vivid light expression by utilizing the gradation of sunlight that reflects the warmness of wood materials and low-saturation wall cladding colors, to optimize visual experience by using various glasses to generate a sense of solid and void that aligns with the idea of transparent space division, to re-shape the interior facade by employing overlapping shelves and to provide an elegant vibe by engaging all elements regarding light, colors, and texture.
Dimensions & Packaging: This is a total of 378.38 sq m 5-story townhouse with 3 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, an open kitchen, a dining area, and a living room, including lounges with floor-to-ceiling windows to add light into the interior space.
Tags: Townhouse, Interior Design
Production Technology: The overall design of this project adopts a material palette including marble slate, solid wood, and various matte wall cladding to organize plenty of storage spaces and to display exquisite interior facade finishes. Additionally, the use of figured glass, black tinted glass, and metal parts in the details add pigment to the final assembly.
Design Challenge: In order to conform to the concept of a neat visual style and utilize colors and materials as mediums to enhance the living experience, the construction primarily focuses on the details that emphasize the exact line expressions and underlying materials characteristics. Several re-assemble processes were inevitable to ensure project quality and rationality.
Research: Prelude to the design development, the team studied the building base of this project and discovered that this long, rectangular shape building base could be traced back to the long street house in Taiwan. The long street houses were a unique housing union typology built alongside commercial canals with two sides of open windows and doors where people conducted commercial activities, and the main family living area was based on the second floor. Therefore, in this project, the design team challenges to design that pays tribute to the implication of old history in Tainan by applying this unique methodology to only use two sides of open windows to develop this project.
Inspiration: Owing to the environment of southern Taiwan, Tainan, where daylight is sufficient and adequate, this townhouse project focuses on bringing the daylight in and providing the best lighting for the interior spaces. Under the premise of designing a customized townhouse for a family of 4, the designer focused on finding the optimal solution to make the utmost use of this long, rectangular building shape while engaging all the living habits of a Taiwanese family.
Project Duration: The project finished in July, 2019, located in Tainan City, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: Due to the engagement of natural sunlight and interior lighting flow displaying on the facade, it provides a cozy area and opens up a complete space from outside to the inside on the second floor including the balcony, living room, dining area, and kitchen space. The linear living space contains different daily use functions yet connects all living habits and interactions of a family.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Megalith Architects, 2019.
Team Members: Principal Designer/ Creative Director: Leo Pan
Principal Architect: Jas Huang
Creative Director: Stev Wu
Project Manager: Mavis Fu
Designer: Scarlett Hung, Rainy Luo, Wei Huang
Assistant Designer: Hazel Hsieh
Image Credits: Image #1-5: Photographer PoNien, Liu, Mooten Studio, 2019.