Tongli Villa Igishushanyo mbonera cy'Imbere mu Nzu yo Guturamo by Hangzhou Shihe Design

Tongli Villa Igishushanyo mbonera cy'Imbere mu Nzu yo Guturamo by Hangzhou Shihe Design is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza in Igishushanyo cy'Imbere y'Inyubako Competition Category.

IfezaImbere y'Inyubako· 2026

Tongli Villa Igishushanyo mbonera cy'Imbere mu Nzu yo Guturamo

by Hangzhou Shihe Design

Client: Hangzhou Shihe Design

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

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The Design

About Tongli Villa Igishushanyo mbonera cy'Imbere mu Nzu yo Guturamo

Tongli Villa ni igishushanyo mbonera cy'imbere mu nzu yo guturamo ifite ibyiciro bitatu, ifite ubuso bwose bungana na metero kare zigera kuri 450. Imiterere y'imbere irafunguye kandi itemba nta nkomyi, nta nkuta zigabanya ibyumba, kandi ikubiyemo icyumba cyo kuruhukiramo cyo hejuru cyasizwe nta gisenge. Ibikoresho karemano ni byo biranga imbere mu nzu, muri byo harimo igiti cya teak kitatunganyijwe, imbaho zirinzwe kubora zijimye, n'inkuta z'ibumba zasizwe n'intoki. Imitako yagabanyijwe ku rugero rwo hasi, ku buryo imiterere y'ubuso n'urumuri rw'amanywa ari byo bigena isura ya buri cyumba. Iki gishushanyo kigaragaza umurage w'ubwoko bwa Miao bwa nyir'inzu kandi gishyigikira ubuzima bwa buri munsi butuje kandi bugenda gahoro.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza

Tongli Villa Igishushanyo mbonera cy'Imbere mu Nzu yo Guturamo ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza, ishimwe ridasanzwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo byo ku rwego rwo hejuru, byiza kandi bikora ku mutima. Abegukanye Ifeza ni ibihangano by'ubuhanga bukomeye kandi bifite guhanga kwinshi, bigaragaza ubuhanga bwimbitse, impano n'ubushishozi bw'ababihanze. Tongli Villa Igishushanyo mbonera cy'Imbere mu Nzu yo Guturamo biteganyijwe ko izaba igihangano cy'icyitegererezo, gifite ubunyamwuga bukomeye n'udushya twimbitse. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Ifeza ni igihangano kizwi kandi gishimwa, gifasha kugura imbibi z'ubuhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga. Tongli Villa Igishushanyo mbonera cy'Imbere mu Nzu yo Guturamo ni igihangano benshi bifuza, gikangura ibyifuzo, gitanga amarangamutima meza kandi gitera igitangaza.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This residential design captures the essence of emotional connection, cultural resonance, and sensory comfort. Blending raw materials such as teak, charred wood, artistic mud walls, and hand collected objects, the space abandons decorative excess to return to elemental simplicity. The spatial layout is fluid, resisting traditional segmentation. Instead, it becomes a canvas for daily rituals, emotional anchoring, and inner peace: an aesthetic of stillness and lived poetry.
Dimensions & Packaging: The house includes three levels with a total floor area of approximately 450 sqm. Key spatial elements include a horizontally open plan ground floor, an unceiled attic lounge, and a free flow layout without partition walls. Materials are predominantly natural and untreated, aligning with the spatial philosophy of sensory grounding.
Tags: Emotional Dwelling, Poetic Minimalism, Miao Culture, Nature Inspired Interior, Raw Materials, Timeless Design, Slow Living, Cultural Resonance, Organic Textures, Meditative Space
Production Technology: The project adopts a material first approach rooted in authenticity. Teak wood was used untreated to preserve its warmth and grain, while blackened anti corrosion timber adds weight and durability. Hand applied mud walls and artistic paint deliver texture and tone without ornament. The approach emphasized manual craftsmanship and intuitive layering over mechanical precision.
Design Challenge: The primary challenge was resisting conventional luxury symbols and instead crafting a space of deep emotional value. Balancing the owner's cultural identity with modern comfort required nuanced material choices, emotional mapping, and conceptual restraint. The absence of visual drama demanded heightened attention to detail, proportion, and sensory atmosphere.
Research: This is an applied cultural emotional design study exploring how spatial language can translate heritage and emotional needs into form. The methodology involved user immersion, ethnographic interviews, and contextual material selection. The homeowner's daily habits, values, and sensory preferences were key data points. The result is a space that not only houses the body but also resonates with memory, ritual, and inner calm enhancing the broader conversation on design’s emotional efficacy.
Inspiration: The homeowner's Miao heritage and natural lifestyle philosophy inspired a design that values emotional depth over surface form. Influenced by vernacular dwellings and poetic Eastern aesthetics, the concept centers on the idea of a home as a place of stillness, reflection, and healing. Rain falling on tiles, shifting light across earth toned walls, and silence within wooden textures form the emotional blueprint for the space.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2024 in Suzhou, China and finished in January 2025.
Operation Flow: The space invites slow, unstructured interaction. There are no dominant visual cues or rigid furniture placements. Instead, the flow is organic light guides the user, and silence defines transitions. It's not about usage, but co existence: the homeowner doesn't use the space, she dwells within it, rhythmically, intuitively.
Team Members: Designer: Chen Kezhi
Designer: Wang Huaqiang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.
Image #1: Photographer Hanmo Vision - Yigao, Tongli Villa, 2025.