Floating Light Primary Function: Kapangidwe ka Mkati mwa Nyumba Yokhalamo by George PC Kao 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
Floating Light Primary Function: Kapangidwe ka Mkati mwa Nyumba Yokhalamo
Client: ACG Design International
Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award Winner in Mkati Category
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About Floating Light Primary Function: Kapangidwe ka Mkati mwa Nyumba Yokhalamo
Book Text: Floating Light ndi kapangidwe ka mkati mwa nyumba yokhalamo yomwe ili mu nyumba ya nsanjika zinayi mumzinda wa Taichung, ku Taiwan. Nyumba yokhalamoyi inamalizidwa mu June 2019. Bwalo lamkati limabweretsa kuwala kwachilengedwe m'malo owongoka ndikutsogolera kayendedwe pakati pa nsanjika. Makoma opakidwa penti yamchere amaonetsa mapangidwe osintha a kuwala ndi mthunzi patsiku lonse. Miyala yachilengedwe, marble, mbale zamitengo ndi zitsulo zopakidwa penti zimapanga kagwiritsidwe kosavuta ndi kobwerezabwereza. Kakhalidwe ka malowa kamapanga malo ogawana pomwe banja lingasonkhane ndikuchezera limodzi.
The Recognition
About the Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award
Floating Light 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. Floating Light 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. Floating Light 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
- Under the shuttling light, shadow and line work, an avantgarde design vocabulary were adopted to create strong contrast with materials while creating visual harmony under conflicting perception, in wholistically conveying the time and space concepts of the designers. As the designers adopted light and shadow for the ongoing narrative of each space, minimal, rational, geometric, linear and the original material texture are the core visual focus for a design theme of a connecting Floating Light.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- With a predominant usage of mineral paint as the compositional base for the overall interior, a simple repetitive spatial texture created a visual rhythm. So apart from light and shadow, another inspiration from the classic game of Snake, time was brought into the spatial configuration as another ongoing connection and continuation, as it traverses freely in the interior in providing sufficient and free-willed lighting whilst providing a guide of spatiality and subtle demarcation.
- Tags
- Atrium, Marble, Painted Metalwork, Imported Italian Tiles, Ultra Scratchproof Flooring, Special Glass, Imported Special Paints, Stucco, Genuine Timber Veneer
- Production Technology
- As this residence is situated in a 15-year-old four-story residential building in Taichung City, it added diffuculty to the vertical spatial demarcation, circulation and light guidance. Large use of imported natural masonry materials and mineral paints became the creative foundation of the interior, as the unprocessed materiality conveyed a simple, repetitive yet rythmic spatial quality of a pure and enriched internal experiences, realized by natural elements and design techniques.
- Design Challenge
- Having spent 2 to 3 months in communicating with the client on concepts and requirements, on top of on-site research and evaluations in search of other possibilities, the design team has synergized the actual functions and inner sentiments in realizing them through natural elements and design techniques. During the construction process, whenever there were 2 or more materials coming into a junction, with essential consideration of chromatic fluidity, and understanding of materials.
- Research
- While the Floating Light design was being developed, the original daytime light of the sky was also preserved. The design team transformed the exquisite pond, no matter how minute compared to the external world, in reflecting the light and cloud in the sky with glamor and energy which was translated to a transcending sense of extension within a limited interior area.
- Inspiration
- Having originated from the many-year friendship with, and understanding of, the client, the design was to create a domain for the family to congregate and interact, given the long duration of absence of the client from the family, while solidifying the fatherly presence of the client for the children, inspired by the work of a famous poet, X. Sung, of Sung Dynasty, where the design speaks of the eternal loving bond between the father and the children.
- Project Duration
- The project was finished in June, 2019 in Taichung City, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- With the atrium design that brings in ample natural light in forming dramatic changes at different times, such as light and shadow patterns formed on walls treated with mineral paint, much like a naturally-formed flowing textured pattern which re-defined lighting design by seemingly consolidating all large volumes such as sofa and staircase that lightened the previously heavy and conventional spatial ideology by creating a light touch of spatial ambiance and visual tension.
- Team Members
- George PC Kao
Hsin I Lin - Image Credits
- Squid Image Studio
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