Sissis Wonderland Leesruimte by Leo Sun is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Goud in Interieur en Tentoonstellingsontwerp Competition Category.

GoudInterieur· 2020

Sissis Wonderland Leesruimte

by Leo Sun

Client: Muxin Studio

A' Design Award in Goud Winner in Interieur Category

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The Design

About Sissis Wonderland Leesruimte

Sissis Wonderland is een leesruimte voor kinderen van 108 vierkante meter in Shanghai. De indeling is geïnspireerd op het spel van bellen blazen: ruimtes van verschillende schaal zijn met elkaar verbonden, zodat open en besloten zones elkaar overlappen. Hout is het hoofdmateriaal, gecombineerd met witte verf en een zachte grijze vloerafwerking. Trappen van verschillende hoogtes, boekenkasten die tevens als zitplaatsen dienen, zigzaggende hellingbanen en kleine bogen zijn op kindermaat gebouwd. Groene planten groeien waar de ruimtes samenkomen. Het ontwerp maakt van de ruimte zelf een groot speelgoed om te ontdekken en te spelen.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Goud

Sissis Wonderland Leesruimte is winnaar van de A' Design Award in Goud, een immens prestigieuze erkenning die wordt toegekend aan eersteklas, schitterende en uitmuntende ontwerpen. Winnaars in Goud zijn uiterst innovatieve, zeer visionaire en glamoureus verblindende creaties die het genie, de wijsheid en de bekwaamheid van hun ontwerpers weerspiegelen. Sissis Wonderland Leesruimte wordt verwacht een zeer geprezen, trendzettende en monumentale uitvinding te zijn die ongekende waarde levert. Dit ontwerp dat de A' Design Award in Goud heeft gewonnen, is een spectaculair, gerespecteerd project dat enorm baat en de grenzen van kunst, wetenschap, ontwerp en technologie verlegt. Sissis Wonderland Leesruimte wekt intense gevoelens van verlangen, roept passie op, moedigt creativiteit aan en fascineert ons.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: After careful researches on various existing cases, designers found that the traditional way of children space design, with its flamboyant decoration, superficial embellishment and excessive use of meaningless figures, has lost its attractiveness. Hence they choose to make the project different by concentrate on the shape of the space itself, it's an attempt to turn the space itself into a giant toy, in which children can freely explore, discover and create their own lively experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 108 square meters. Thinking from the perspective of a child, designers planned and divided the space in children's scales. Though spatially limited by the floor area, they managed to squeeze in stairs with different heights, bookshelves that also serves as chairs, zigzagging ramps and mini arches in children's size. All of these are in children's scale. Boys and girls can climb up and down or play hide-and-seek in these facilities without parents worrying about potential dangers and injuries.
Tags: Interior, Parent-child Reading Space, Modern, Simple, Art, Interesting, Bubbles, Muxin Studio, Nature
Production Technology: In order to elicit an amicable relationship between the space created and the surrounding plants, as well as to bring children closer to the nature, designers use wood as the main building material. The selection of white paint and the soft grey floor glue further guarantees the children a safe and interesting place to play, learn and interact. They grow green plants on the boundaries where different spaces meet, which helps sustaining the dynamic among person, space and nature.
Design Challenge: The main topic of the project is to give different configurations according to different realms in spaces. Since spaces with different functions communicate and fusion with each other, a multitude of spatial forms and hierarchies are created.
Research: The varieties of spatial typology provide children with experiential guidance to explore boundaries between public and private spaces. During the process of moving through spaces with various qualities, the Introvert and extrovert tendencies of children are well reflected in their behaviors. In the experimental children reading space project, designers are aiming to create a cozy and amicable places for children to read and play, a place that inspires their imagination and creativity.
Inspiration: The configuration of spaces follows an idea inspired by the game of blowing bubbles: several spaces are arranged according to their scales and functions before recombined and attached like bubbles. Since spaces with different functions communicate and fusion with each other, a multitude of spatial forms and hierarchies are created, in which openness and independence, public and private, interior and exterior are overlapped and interconnected in a creative and pleasant way.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2018 in Shanghai and finished in November 2018 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow: According to many researches, children of three to seven years old are in their most sensitive period of growing from their subjective worlds to the objective world. A flowing space like this helps expanding their perceiving and communicating abilities and reveal the true and creative nature in a child.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Leo Sun, 2018.
Team Members: Yves Zhang
Leo Sun
Yiye Zhang
Dawei Jiang
Shuhang Zhang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Bookshelves, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Mini Arches, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Reading Space, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Reading Space 2, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Corridor, 2018.