Cha-Mi Ko Te Whare Hauora Hainamana by Li-Yu Cheng

Cha-Mi Ko Te Whare Hauora Hainamana by Li-Yu Cheng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Parahi in Hoahoa Roto Whare me te Whakaaturanga Competition Category.

ParahiRoto Whare· 2021

Cha-Mi Ko Te Whare Hauora Hainamana

by Li-Yu Cheng

Client: StudioX4

A' Design Award Parahi Winner in Roto Whare Category

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The Design

About Cha-Mi Ko Te Whare Hauora Hainamana

Kei te taone nui o Taipei tenei whare haumanu kaupapa e u ana ki te paerewa o te whare hohipera, me te karo i nga huarahi roa rawa atu i waenga i nga ruma korero, he kino ki nga kaumatua, he matapo hoki. Ko te Mahere-a-matua e hanga ana i te whakawhanaungatanga ma te whakawhanaungatanga o te whakatakotoranga o ia ra, te whakamarara i nga huarahi o nga ruma rongoa me te hanga i tetahi mahere porowhita-a-roto. Ko nga punaha miihini mohio kua whakauruhia ki te rehitatanga, te whare rongoa, me te utu whakaahuatanga, ehara i te mea he pai ake te mahi korero, engari e whai ana ano ki nga tikanga hangarau-ora e haere mai ana i roto i nga wa e heke mai nei.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Parahi

Ko Cha-Mi Ko Te Whare Hauora Hainamana te toa o te A' Design Award Parahi, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa kōeke e tohua ana mā te auaha, te mahi mōhio me te whakaaro hōhonu. Ko ngā toa Parahi he mahi pukenga e rite ana, he auaha mīharo, e whakatūturu ana i te wheako nui, te whakaaro me te mōhio-ā-ringa o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko Cha-Mi Ko Te Whare Hauora Hainamana he taonga whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he ngaio, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Parahi e whakauru ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa i te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau, ā, he tino mīharo ki ngā taipitopito. Ka whakatutuki a Cha-Mi Ko Te Whare Hauora Hainamana i ngā hiahia, ka pā ki ngā hiahia, ka whakaoho i ngā kare-ā-roto, ā, ka kume i te pākiki.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Amid downtown, converged at traditional food markets and financial hubs, Songshan district of Taipei city, contrary to common storefronts at the ground floor, Cha-Mi Chinese Medicine clinic is situated at the third story of the building, providing higher privacy to patients. Within 495 square meter of space, the interior comprises consulting rooms, the dispensary, VIP therapy rooms, and laboratories.
Dimensions & Packaging: Construction area 495 square meter.
Tags: Wood, Wood-working, Minimalism, Oriental Design, Clinic Design
Production Technology: Concentric form is naturally innate existence like a seed, whose round and effortless contour avert indifference stereotypes of a clinic and sooth mental pressure for patients. Away from redundant colors, clean white backdrops and woodworks in oak took minimal usage of material, resonating calm ambiance. Light freely transmits through three elevations of heights, which better illumination condition and create enticing visuality.
Design Challenge: Moreover, in order to provide better medical service, intelligent automation systems are installed and integrated at registration, dispensary, and description payment, which not only shorten the consulting process, but also comply with tech-life trends coming in the near future.
Research: Another mention that, people barely notice the actual presence of herb therapy, which derives from withered grass. While seasonal herbal grasses flourish in 6 test tubes around registration, the uncertainty of life and death is awakened, echoing to daily errands of the clinic, resonating like an endless loop.
Inspiration: Based on Chinese character denotation, Cha refers to tea and Mi means rice. Probing to derivative connotation, tea is made from herb and rice is essential to meal. Our client started this clinic, expecting to help patients get recovered with effective and harmless herbal therapy.
Project Duration: Started from November 2019 and finished in June 2020. Taipei city.
Operation Flow: Every well-rounded hospital concerns a safety issue of avoiding excessively long passage between consulting rooms, which easily causes blind spots and is unfriendly to the elders. How to configure appropriate passages for patients thus becomes the first concern of this project. Inspired by the contour of satellite, disperses routes of therapy rooms and re-merges with registration and dispensary sections forms a centralized-circle layout; in other words, the master-planning forges centralization by decentralization of regular compartmental layout.
Patents: Copyrights belong to StudioX4.
Team Members: Li-Yu Cheng
Yu-Chen Chen
Image Credits: YHLAA