Doctors of Design Design de Interiores de Apartamento by Hua Cheng and Hsiao-Li Lo

Doctors of Design Design de Interiores de Apartamento by Hua Cheng and Hsiao-Li Lo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design de Espaços Interiores e Exposições Competition Category.

BronzeInterior· 2021

Doctors of Design Design de Interiores de Apartamento

by Hua Cheng and Hsiao-Li Lo

Client: Her Guang Interior Design

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Doctors of Design Design de Interiores de Apartamento

Doctors of Design é um projeto de design de interiores para um apartamento de dois quartos com 76 metros quadrados na cidade de Nova Taipé. A parede entre a sala de estar e a sala de jantar foi removida para melhorar a entrada de luz e a circulação pela casa. A sala de jantar agora também funciona como um espaço para ler, trabalhar e tomar café. Uma porta de vidro dobrável pode fechar a sala de jantar quando é necessária privacidade, mantendo, ainda assim, a partilha da luz natural. Os materiais incluem folheado de madeira, pavimento laminado, vidro estampado, vidro fumado acastanhado e painéis maciços de pinho.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Doctors of Design Design de Interiores de Apartamento conquistou o A' Design Award de Bronze, um reconhecimento altamente prestigiado atribuído a designs notáveis que se distinguem pela criatividade, engenho e perspicácia. Os vencedores do Bronze são artefactos amplamente habilidosos e surpreendentemente criativos que comprovam a vasta experiência, imaginação e capacidade de iniciativa dos seus designers. Espera-se que Doctors of Design Design de Interiores de Apartamento seja um objeto muito considerado, admirado e estimado, notavelmente profissional e inovador. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Bronze incorpora as melhores práticas em arte, ciência, design e tecnologia e é excelente pela sua atenção ao detalhe. Doctors of Design Design de Interiores de Apartamento satisfaz esplendidamente necessidades, toca desejos, encanta sentimentos e desperta curiosidade.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The approach removed the blockages of light, space and passage. In so doing, also united the spaces previously compartmentalized for reading, working, cooking and drinking coffee, thereby getting rid of not just the physical barriers between the spaces but also the emotional barriers between the activities designated for those spaces. The result is an openness that contributes toward a freeness of mind. A glass accordion-style door in the dining room, however, ensures that such sharing of light and space doesn’t come at the cost of privacy when needed.
Dimensions & Packaging: 76 m2
Tags: Interior Design, Interior Designer, Home Decor, Japanese style, Wabi-sabi, MUJI
Production Technology: Blushing wooden veneer, Laminate flooring, Pattern glass, Tawny glass, Pine solid wood panel
Design Challenge: The couple’s home, a two-bedroom studio apartment, offered sufficient space, but made poor use of that space. Too many walls, partitions and standalone rooms blocked the flow of light and gave the home a claustrophobic feel. Thus, did away with the wall separating the living and dining rooms, replacing it with a less rigid partition, and allowing in more light. Opening up the living space in this manner also imparted a new center of gravity to the home’s common area, balancing it more soundly around the dining table and coffee station.
Research: A combination of two old words with overlapping definitions, wabi-sabi might be the Buddhist view of the facts of existence: Both life and art are beautiful not because they are perfect and eternal, but because they are imperfect and fleeting.
By David Watts Barton/ Japanology, April 2016
To design a space ideal for reading, cooking and enjoying good coffee. More importantly, clients required a home in which space and light would not only be optimized, but also utilized in a way that wouldn’t compromise their privacy or increase their use of air-conditioning and other utilities.
Inspiration: Like homeopathic medicine, the essence of wabi-sabi is apportioned in small doses. As the dose decreases, the effect becomes more potent, more profound. The closer things get to nonexistence, the more exquisite and evocative they become. Consequently to experience wabi-sabi means you have to slow way down, be patient and look very closely.
By Leonard Koren/Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Project Duration: The project started in January, 2019 and finished in July, 2019 in New Taipei City
Operation Flow: By remodeling the dining room after tearing down the living room wall, and creating a new space in which to eat, read and drink coffee, able to breathe new life into our clients’ leisure time. Also reshaped the contours of their home’s common areas to draw in and retain more light, replacing the home’s previous confining layout with lighter, airier atmospherics. The new lines and space tied the common areas together, instead of compartmentalizing them, and gave client couple not only new places and opportunities to interact and share meals together, but also new areas of privacy for reading and reflecting.
Team Members: Hua Cheng
Hsiao-Li,Lo
Image Credits: Image: Photographer Hsiao Hsiung Liang Yen,2019.