Doctors of Design Compositio Interior Diaetae by Hua Cheng and Hsiao-Li Lo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Designatio Interior Competition Category.
AesInterior· 2021
Doctors of Design Compositio Interior Diaetae
Client: Her Guang Interior Design
Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Interior Category
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The Design
About Doctors of Design Compositio Interior Diaetae
Medici Compositionis est ratio interior compositionis diaetae duobus cubiculis instructae, LXXVI metrorum quadratorum, in urbe Nova Taipei sita. Paries inter conclave commune et cenaculum sublatus est ut lucis et motus per domum fluxus melior fieret. Cenaculum nunc etiam locus est ad legendum, laborandum et potandum coffeam. Ostium vitreum plicabile cenaculum claudere potest cum secretum desideratur, dum lux diurna adhuc communicatur. Materiae adhibitae sunt lamina lignea, pavimentum laminatum, vitrum figuris ornatum, vitrum fulvum et tabulae pini solidae.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum
Doctors of Design Compositio Interior Diaetae victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Doctors of Design Compositio Interior Diaetae rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Doctors of Design Compositio Interior Diaetae necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The approach removed the blockages of light, space and passage. In so doing, also united the spaces previously compartmentalized for reading, working, cooking and drinking coffee, thereby getting rid of not just the physical barriers between the spaces but also the emotional barriers between the activities designated for those spaces. The result is an openness that contributes toward a freeness of mind. A glass accordion-style door in the dining room, however, ensures that such sharing of light and space doesn’t come at the cost of privacy when needed.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 76 m2
- Tags
- Interior Design, Interior Designer, Home Decor, Japanese style, Wabi-sabi, MUJI
- Production Technology
- Blushing wooden veneer, Laminate flooring, Pattern glass, Tawny glass, Pine solid wood panel
- Design Challenge
- The couple’s home, a two-bedroom studio apartment, offered sufficient space, but made poor use of that space. Too many walls, partitions and standalone rooms blocked the flow of light and gave the home a claustrophobic feel. Thus, did away with the wall separating the living and dining rooms, replacing it with a less rigid partition, and allowing in more light. Opening up the living space in this manner also imparted a new center of gravity to the home’s common area, balancing it more soundly around the dining table and coffee station.
- Research
- A combination of two old words with overlapping definitions, wabi-sabi might be the Buddhist view of the facts of existence: Both life and art are beautiful not because they are perfect and eternal, but because they are imperfect and fleeting.
By David Watts Barton/ Japanology, April 2016
To design a space ideal for reading, cooking and enjoying good coffee. More importantly, clients required a home in which space and light would not only be optimized, but also utilized in a way that wouldn’t compromise their privacy or increase their use of air-conditioning and other utilities. - Inspiration
- Like homeopathic medicine, the essence of wabi-sabi is apportioned in small doses. As the dose decreases, the effect becomes more potent, more profound. The closer things get to nonexistence, the more exquisite and evocative they become. Consequently to experience wabi-sabi means you have to slow way down, be patient and look very closely.
By Leonard Koren/Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers - Project Duration
- The project started in January, 2019 and finished in July, 2019 in New Taipei City
- Operation Flow
- By remodeling the dining room after tearing down the living room wall, and creating a new space in which to eat, read and drink coffee, able to breathe new life into our clients’ leisure time. Also reshaped the contours of their home’s common areas to draw in and retain more light, replacing the home’s previous confining layout with lighter, airier atmospherics. The new lines and space tied the common areas together, instead of compartmentalizing them, and gave client couple not only new places and opportunities to interact and share meals together, but also new areas of privacy for reading and reflecting.
- Team Members
- Hua Cheng
Hsiao-Li,Lo - Image Credits
- Image: Photographer Hsiao Hsiung Liang Yen,2019.
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