Into the Ink Igishushanyo cy'Imbere mu Nzu y'Ubwiherero by Jia Ru Chen

Into the Ink Igishushanyo cy'Imbere mu Nzu y'Ubwiherero by Jia Ru Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma in Igishushanyo cy'Imbere y'Inyubako Competition Category.

IcyumaImbere y'Inyubako· 2022

Into the Ink Igishushanyo cy'Imbere mu Nzu y'Ubwiherero

by Jia Ru Chen

Client: China University of Technology

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma Winner in Imbere y'Inyubako Category

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The Design

About Into the Ink Igishushanyo cy'Imbere mu Nzu y'Ubwiherero

Into the Ink ni igishushanyo cy'imbere mu nzu y'ubwiherero ku nzu ifite metero kare 124. Ahantu ha kijyambere hasozwa n'imirongo ya marimari, imirongo yo hejuru, itara ryashyizwemo mu bwubatsi ndetse n'imirongo y'ibiti byijimye kugira ngo hagaragazwe uko ibintu bikurikirana neza. Ibara ryirabura, iry'ivu n'iryera bishyizwe mu byiciro binyuze mu bikoresho bifite imiterere itandukanye kugira ngo ibyumba bigire ubujyakuzimu. Imirongo y'ibara ryirabura n'iryera hamwe n'amatara yashyizwemo mu bwubatsi ikurikirana ku nkingi ndende ziri hasi z'ahantu rusange, bigatuma uburemere bwabyo mu maso bugabanuka kandi bikayobora uko abantu binjira n'uko basohoka. Igikoni, icyumba cyo kuriramo n'icyumba cyo kwakirirwamo abashyitsi byashyizwe hamwe, bituma ababyeyi bashobora kureba abana babo nta nkomyi hagati y'ahantu hose.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma

Into the Ink Igishushanyo cy'Imbere mu Nzu y'Ubwiherero ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cy'icyuma, ishimwe ry'agaciro ritangwa ku bishushanyo byiza bihuza ibyo umwuga n'inganda bikeneye ku bihangano byashushanyijwe neza. Abegukanye icyuma bagaragaza ubuhanga bukomeye, ubumenyi bwihariye, imyumvire y'inzobere n'ubushobozi bwo guhanga bw'ababikoze. Into the Ink Igishushanyo cy'Imbere mu Nzu y'Ubwiherero biteganyijwe ko izaba igihangano cyubahwa, gishimwa kandi gikundwa, gifatika kandi gifite udushya. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye icyuma gihuza uburyo bwiza bukoreshwa mu nganda kandi gifite ibiranga bya tekiniki bifite ubushobozi, bifatanye n'ubumenyi n'impano. Into the Ink Igishushanyo cy'Imbere mu Nzu y'Ubwiherero yubahwa kubera gukora neza, kandi yashushanyijwe kugira ngo inoze ubuzima, ifashe gutuma isi iba nziza.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: With modern style as its basis, the space is decorated with marble veins, ceiling lines, lighting, and dark wooden grains to create a sense of fluidity. Black, grey and white are piled up through media of various textures, evaluating the depth of the space. The flow goes through the common area from the entrance to the living/dining room smoothly, with use of a well-balanced color palette and its dynamic atmosphere, merging into a stylish exquisiteness with personality.
Dimensions & Packaging: This project is 124 square meters.
Tags: Interior Design, Residence, Modern, Marble, Black and White
Production Technology: Considering two children's need for a big sized storage room, the designer applies recessed hidden handles on the system cabinets to improve sleekness, reducing the sense of being messy and packed. The multi-layers and its partial open-shelving combined with black and wooden grains, accompanied with the grey mirrors above the cabinets, extend the space with its reflective effect.
Design Challenge: The marble veins run up and down like a mountain ridge, echoing the linear design applied on the ceiling. The recessed part beneath the TV wall offers a space to store and place things, glowing faintly as if it's sunrise at the foot of the mountain. The symbolic mountain sits at the house, guarding the family along the way.
Research: Designed based on the users' needs instead of adapting to the typical original floor plan, the whole common area including the kitchen, dining and living room allow young couples to look after their kids without barriers in between, interacting with each other easily. The arrangement connects the functional areas, extends the sunlight, and boosts the ventilation, as well gathering all the family members.
Inspiration: Instead of lowering the ceiling to adapt to the original situation, the designer decided to use black-white lines with embedded lighting design that run through the beams of the common area. It not only solves the overwhelming atmosphere caused by the lower beams above, it also serves as a hint to guide the residents along the flow, improving the spatial aesthetics with indirect lighting.
Project Duration: This project is finished in October 2021 in Hsinchu City, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: Once entering from the entrance, one can see the TV wall as the hub of the space. From the TV wall, the flow goes smoothly in between different areas, turning right to shoe cabinets, left to the living, left front to bedrooms and right front to the dining room, forming a sense of fluid network based on the hub.
Team Members: Designer: Jia-Ru Chen
Designer: Te-Chih Lo
Image Credits: Image #1-5: Photographer CHIU CHUANG-CHIEH, Into The Ink, 2021.