Yard Apartment Primary Function: Kapangidwe ka Mkati mwa Nyumba Yokhalamo by Qisi Design - Chen Sissi and Fu Chong is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award in Mapangidwe a Mkati mwa Nyumba ndi Mawonekedwe Competition Category.
SilivaMkati· 2020
Yard Apartment Primary Function: Kapangidwe ka Mkati mwa Nyumba Yokhalamo
by Qisi Design - Chen Sissi and Fu Chong
Client: Qisi Design
Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award Winner in Mkati Category
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About Yard Apartment Primary Function: Kapangidwe ka Mkati mwa Nyumba Yokhalamo
Book Text: Yard Apartment ndi nyumba yokhalamo yobwereka kwa kanthawi kochepa ku Shanghai yokhala ndi malo amkati a mamita 25 lalikulu. Kapangidwe kake kamalumikiza zipinda zamkati ndi bwalo, lomwe limagwira ntchito ngati chipinda chochezera chakunja pamene nyengo ili yabwino. Bala imalumikiza mkati ndi kunja. Chipinda chochezera chotsika chimapanga kusintha kwa msinkhu, ndipo mezzanine imakhala ndi chipinda chogona. Chikopa chamatabwa ndi mipando yamatabwa zimapatsa nyumba yaing'inoyi khalidwe lofunda, pamene chimbudzi chimakonzedwa ndi utoto wa simenti wakuda. Mipando yopangidwa mwapadera imalola kuti ntchito zingapo zivutikirane m'malo ocheperako kwambiri.
The Recognition
About the Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award
Yard Apartment Primary Function: Kapangidwe ka Mkati mwa Nyumba Yokhalamo ndi mmodzi mwa opambana a Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award, kuzindikirika kolemekezeka modabwitsa komwe kumaperekedwa kwa mapangidwe a pamwamba, okongola ndi ochititsa chidwi. Opambana a Siliva ndi ntchito zowala kwambiri ndi zolenga kwambiri zomwe zimaonetsa ukatswiri, luso ndi nzeru zakuthwa za opanga awo. Yard Apartment Primary Function: Kapangidwe ka Mkati mwa Nyumba Yokhalamo akuyembekezeka kukhala ntchito yodabwitsa yoonetsedwa, yaukatswiri wapadera ndi yatsopano kwambiri. Mapangidwe opambana Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award awa ndi chopangidwa chodziwika kwambiri ndi choyamikiridwa chomwe chimapindulitsa ndi kukulitsa malire a luso, sayansi, kapangidwe ndi ukadaulo. Yard Apartment Primary Function: Kapangidwe ka Mkati mwa Nyumba Yokhalamo ndi cholengedwa chomwe anthu ambiri amachichitira nsanje, chomwe chimadzutsa zilakolako, kubweretsa maganizo abwino ndi kuyatsa kudabwa ndi chidwi.
Behind the Design
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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.
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