ReRoot A Casa Residencial by Maggie Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design de Espaços Interiores e Exposições Competition Category.

BronzeInterior· 2020

ReRoot A Casa Residencial

by Maggie Yu

Client: TMIDStudio

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About ReRoot A Casa Residencial

Neste projeto de renovação, o projeto integrou as novas necessidades e ideias dos ocupantes com as condições existentes do antigo espaço. O antigo apartamento renovado oferecia propósitos mais diversificados, usando novos métodos de design para trazer à tona diferentes visuais e significados do espaço. Mais importante, o espaço também serve como uma âncora emocional para o proprietário, o lugar onde as memórias amorosas forjadas de sua infância. Este projeto demonstrou uma renovação de um antigo espaço com preservação da ligação emocional do proprietário.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

ReRoot A Casa Residencial 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 ReRoot A Casa Residencial 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. ReRoot A Casa Residencial 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: When considering a renovation, a designer needs to integrate the new needs and ideas of the occupants with the existing conditions of the old space. To provide more diversified purposes, and use novel design methods to bring out the space different looks and meanings. In this case, the space also serves another emotional aspect, a childhood memories from the owner who inherent the apartment from his parents. How to reconstruct the space with preservation of his emotional connection become one major challenge of this project.
Dimensions & Packaging: This project is about 149 square meters, located in Taipei City.
Tags: Interior Design, Residential, House, Space
Production Technology: To retain the essence of the old era and bring out the embodiment of contemporary design, we must let the hardware and building materials, air and light of the home space, and the abstraction of continuity and inheritance, be integrated into the design through the perception and touch of the living experience. Using the nature of the structure, it guides the three characteristics of simple, natural and individual into a design.
Design Challenge: With confining the electrical and water ducts to the very small space below the ceiling, the design successfully creates an opening space with high ceiling to embrace and welcome the new family members.
Research: The project is located in Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan, one of cities which needs for renovation. In this project, we wish to find a balance between retain and repurposing of an old apartment which contained so much personal memories, yet need a modern space for the new leaves and memories to grow.
Inspiration: Inheriting from the bloodline of the previous generation, this project covers the owner's memories of growing up as a child, especially the spirit of deferred thoughts and culture of the loved ones. We hope to the chisels this old space to fit family context in the future living purpose.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2018 and finished in June 2018 in Taipei,Taiwan.
Operation Flow: We overthrow the original space partitions and moving lines, but choose to keep parts of exposed reinforced concrete, a resemble of his origin and a Root to childhood memories of the owner. A loving space where he grew up and supports him to become who he is today, an architect. Simplicity is the best note for the homeowner. In the transformation of perception into spatial shape, the limitations of hue, material and space height are integrated, and finally the life, memory and continuation of the resonance given by the space are depicted.
Team Members: MAGGIE YU
HUANG MING WEI
CHOU YI KUAN
Image Credits: Moooten Studio