Yard Apartment Te Mahi Matua: Te Hoahoa Roto Kāinga by Qisi Design - Chen Sissi and Fu Chong

Yard Apartment Te Mahi Matua: Te Hoahoa Roto Kāinga by Qisi Design - Chen Sissi and Fu Chong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Hiriwa in Hoahoa Roto Whare me te Whakaaturanga Competition Category.

HiriwaRoto Whare· 2020

Yard Apartment Te Mahi Matua: Te Hoahoa Roto Kāinga

by Qisi Design - Chen Sissi and Fu Chong

Client: Qisi Design

A' Design Award Hiriwa Winner in Roto Whare Category

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The Design

About Yard Apartment Te Mahi Matua: Te Hoahoa Roto Kāinga

Ko te Yard Apartment he wāhi noho roto reti-poto kei Shanghai, e 25 mita pūrua te horahanga o roto. Ka honoa e te hoahoa ngā ruma o roto ki tētahi marae, e mahi ana hei ruma noho o waho i ngā rā āhua pai. He pā e hono ana i te taha o roto me te taha o waho. Ka waihangatia e te ruma noho tōmuri he panonitanga o te teitei, ā, ko tētahi papa waenga hei pupuri i te ruma moe. Ko te kiri rākau me ngā taputapu rākau ka homai he āhua mahana ki te kāinga iti, engari ko te ruma horoi kua whakaotia ki te peita raima pōuri. Ma ngā taputapu taurite e taea ai te whakapānga o ngā mahi maha ki tētahi wāhi tino iti.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hiriwa

Ko Yard Apartment Te Mahi Matua: Te Hoahoa Roto Kāinga te toa o te A' Design Award Hiriwa, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa taumata teitei rawa, ātaahua me te whakamīharo. Ko ngā toa Hiriwa he mahi tino kanapa, tino auaha e whakaatu ana i te mātanga, te pūmanawa me te mōhio hōhonu o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Yard Apartment Te Mahi Matua: Te Hoahoa Roto Kāinga he mahi whakamīharo, he tauira, he tino ngaio, he auaha hōhonu. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Hiriwa he hanganga rongonui, whakamīharotia e whai wāhi ana ki te whakawhānui i ngā rohe o te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau. Ko Yard Apartment Te Mahi Matua: Te Hoahoa Roto Kāinga he mahi e hae ana te tini, e whakaara ana i ngā hiahia, e kawe mai ana i ngā kare-ā-roto pai, ā, e whakaoho ana i te mīharo.

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.