Yard Apartment Consilium Interius Habitationis by Qisi Design - Chen Sissi and Fu Chong

Yard Apartment Consilium Interius Habitationis by Qisi Design - Chen Sissi and Fu Chong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Designatio Interior Competition Category.

ArgentumInterior· 2020

Yard Apartment Consilium Interius Habitationis

by Qisi Design - Chen Sissi and Fu Chong

Client: Qisi Design

Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Yard Apartment Consilium Interius Habitationis

Yard Apartment est habitationis interius brevis conductionis Shanghai situm, cuius area interior viginti quinque metrorum quadratorum est. Consilium conclavia interiora cum area coniungit, quae, tempestate benigna, tamquam conclave exterius ad vivendum servit. Taberna interiora et exteriora nectit. Conclave ad vivendum demissum altitudinis varietates efficit, et tabulatum medium cubiculum continet. Ligni tenuis lamina et supellex lignea parvae domui indolem calidam dant, dum balneum caemento obscuro pigmentato perficitur. Supellex ad mensuram facta permittit ut plures functiones in area valde limitata concurrant.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Yard Apartment Consilium Interius Habitationis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Yard Apartment Consilium Interius Habitationis opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Yard Apartment Consilium Interius Habitationis creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The designer carries out the design around the goal of how to create a warm, comfortable place that can accommodate a variety of activities in a 25 square meter space. The designers fully develop the space potential of small houses by establishing indoor and outdoor connections, making use of mezzanine and function superposition. Finally, the designers create a rich space that has complete living function and can accommodate the party of many people.
Dimensions & Packaging: Interior area of apartment is 25 square meters
Tags: tiny area apartment, yard, wood space, functional combination, mezzanine
Production Technology: wood veneer, wood furniture, cement paint, wood structure.
Design Challenge: Small area increases the difficulty of function setting and construction.
Research: This project studies the possibility of a tiny living space. Its purpose is to create a warm and comfortable atmosphere in a very small space and to meet the needs of residents' living and social interaction. The design team carefully controls the size of each activity scene, and realizes the superposition of various functions through the customized furniture and advantages of floor height. Space limitation through wood increases the richness of space. The contrast of materials enlarges the visual feeling of space.
Inspiration: The designer combines the courtyard with the interior space to obtain more usable area and the possibility of carrying out activities. Through the activities between people to establish the overall connection of space. The designer takes an activity axis as the main line. Activity scenes are unfolded on this axis. Wood veneer and wood furniture bring affinity to the space. The boundary between furniture and architecture becomes blurred, which is conducive to making full use of every space.
Project Duration: The design started in May 2019 and finished in June 2019 in Shanghai.
The construction started in June 2019 and finished in September in Shanghai.
Operation Flow: This space is used as a short rent apartment. The entrance creates the warm atmosphere of the coffee shop on the street. The yard can be used as an outdoor living room when the weather is good. The indoor space and the outdoor space are connected through the bar. The sunken living room has rich height difference changes. Wood brings affinity to the space. The mezzanine is the bedroom. The furniture creates the area that does not disturb each other with the below space. The dark color bathroom area wrapped by cement paint brings the residents a sense of tranquility and relaxation under the carefully designed lighting.
Team Members: Designer: Chen Sissi
Designer: Fu Chong
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Lv Xiaobin, Yard Apartment, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Lv Xiaobin, overview, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Lv Xiaobin, Bar, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Lv Xiaobin, Mezzanine, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Lv Xiaobin, Livingroom, 2019.