Unique Reading Area Mahi Matua: Whare Pukapuka by Hui Hsin Cheng

Unique Reading Area Mahi Matua: Whare Pukapuka by Hui Hsin Cheng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Parahi in Hoahoa Roto Whare me te Whakaaturanga Competition Category.

ParahiRoto Whare· 2023

Unique Reading Area Mahi Matua: Whare Pukapuka

by Hui Hsin Cheng

Client: Homeyoung interior decorating and design Ltd.

A' Design Award Parahi Winner in Roto Whare Category

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The Design

About Unique Reading Area Mahi Matua: Whare Pukapuka

Kuputuhi Pukapuka: "Kei te noho te whare pukapuka i tētahi taiao māori, ātaahua. I te whare tomo, ko te whakaritenga mōhio o ngā wāhanga tōpū me ngā wāhanga tuwhera i roto i ngā riki e tūhono ana i ngā manuhiri ki te hoahoanga, me te waihanga i tētahi whakapapatanga ātaahua o te māramatanga me te atarangi. Ko ngā pae pukapuka e whakaatu ana i ngā raina whakapae me ngā raina poutū mā e tautohu ana i te wāhi, i te wā e whakanui ana ngā rama raina i te wāhi hei waihanga i ngā huihuinga mahana e tata ana ki te taiao māori. Mā tēnei rohe pānui pai-mō-te-whānau, e tūmanako ana te kaihoahoa ki te poipoi i te tipuranga tinana me te hinengaro hauora o ngā tamariki."

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Parahi

Ko Unique Reading Area Mahi Matua: Whare Pukapuka 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 Unique Reading Area Mahi Matua: Whare Pukapuka 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 Unique Reading Area Mahi Matua: Whare Pukapuka 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: The virtual and real hollows between the grilles connect the interlaced relationship between people and space, creating a sense of overlap between light, shadow and space. A large number of bookshelf designs use vertical and horizontal lines to structure the space, and use linear lighting to embellish, refract, penetrate, and focus, creating more aggregation spaces close to nature.
Dimensions & Packaging: Project area is 860 square meter.Use different types of seats, including floor changes and different types of furniture, so that adults and children can freely choose reading positions according to their preferences, and also provide different height seat types according to children of different ages.
Tags: interior design, family, library, wood, warm, Taiwan
Production Technology: The designer uses natural wood veneer and white on the ceiling and walls to reduce the use of complicated materials, and guides the beauty of nature into the interior, making it a design that is not overly decorated, blurring the boundary between indoor and outdoor, and creating a people-oriented theme design.
The space uses marble floors, presenting the image of flowing clouds, flowing water and mist, forming a cultural atmosphere like ink painting, where people talk and communicate with books, creating more gathering spaces close to nature. In the library, you can feel the inner Calm and reading atmosphere.
Design Challenge: The design needs to respond to the environment and building forms, and integrate the concept of the foundation, so that its presentation can be natural and harmonious without being too abrupt, and think about how to retain the marble materials used in some existing spaces, so as to achieve environmental protection and protect the earth's environment.
Research: The library is located in a quiet and natural environment.
The Foundation plans children's moral education and conducts parent-child learning activities, hoping to improve children's physical and mental development through parent-child activities such as reading together, reading pictures and telling stories, and creative aesthetics, so that children can grow like seedlings and become trees in the future, and promote family harmony and happiness.
Inspiration: The field is surrounded by Chinese scroll bamboo elements, and the visual experience extending upward conveys the image of rising steadily. Let the people who come here settle down and start a good reading time.
The virtual and real hollows between the grilles connect the interlaced relationship between people and space, creating a sense of overlap between light, shadow and space.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2021 and finished in November 2022 in Taiwan, Taipei City.
Operation Flow: The reading area is like a natural environment. There are stepped bookcases like small hills, and there are round and funny sofas and seats like pebbles. It seems to be sitting in nature, reading the environment freely, and wandering in the sea of books. The space is matched with low light color blocks and warm wood grains, so that children can read comfortably. Movable furniture is also used to trigger children's imagination.
Patents: All images: Yana Zhezhela and Alek Vatagin / Cheng Hui Hsin(Design director)/Beitou parent-child library attached to Xingtian Temple,Taipei
Team Members: Design Director ：Cheng Hui Hsin and
Designer ： Lin Wan Ju
Designer ：Liu Yi Tseng
Image Credits: All images: Yana Zhezhela and Alek Vatagin / Cheng Hui Hsin(Design director)/Beitou parent-child library attached to Xingtian Temple,Taipei