The River is Everywhere नदी सर्वत्र अस्ति by Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award कांस्यपुरस्कारः in आभ्यन्तर अवकाश एवं प्रदर्शनी अभिकल्पना Competition Category.
कांस्यम्आभ्यन्तरम्· 2022
The River is Everywhere नदी सर्वत्र अस्ति
by Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang
Client: 317studio
A' Design Award कांस्यपुरस्कारः Winner in आभ्यन्तरम् Category
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The Design
About The River is Everywhere नदी सर्वत्र अस्ति
एतत् गृहाभ्यन्तरं ताइपेइ-नगरे स्थितस्य द्विशतवर्गमीटर-आवासगृहस्य कक्षान्तरसज्जा अस्ति। एतस्य अभिकल्पनं समीपस्थनदीं आध्यात्मिकयात्रायाः विषयं च अवलम्बते। प्रवेशद्वारस्य उपरिच्छदः सुकोमलवक्ररेखायां पुनर्निर्मितः। बैठकगृहस्य विभाजकभित्तिषु स्तरितरन्ध्राणि छायाः निर्मिमते, याः नदीतः दृश्यमानवृक्षान् स्मारयन्ति। भित्तिचूर्णपृष्ठभागाः हस्तेन सम्पादिताः, येन विवृतयोजना स्वच्छा उज्ज्वला च दृश्यते। मर्मरपाषाणस्य प्लास्टिकपत्रस्य च निर्मितः विशिष्टः भोजनगणकः, वक्राकारदर्पणपादेन सहितः, स्थानस्य मध्ये स्थितः अस्ति।
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award कांस्यपुरस्कारः
The River is Everywhere नदी सर्वत्र अस्ति A' Design Award कांस्यपुरस्कारस्य विजेता अस्ति; अयम् उच्चप्रतिष्ठितः सम्मानः सृजनशीलतया उद्भावनकौशलेन तीक्ष्णप्रज्ञया च विशिष्टेभ्य उत्कृष्टेभ्योऽभिकल्पेभ्यो दीयते। कांस्यविजेतारः प्रचुरकौशलयुक्ता उल्लेखनीयतया सृजनशीलाश्च शिल्पकृतयः सन्ति, याः स्वाभिकल्पकानां विपुलम् अनुभवं कल्पनाशक्तिं साधनसम्पन्नतां च प्रमाणयन्ति। The River is Everywhere नदी सर्वत्र अस्ति अत्यन्तं मूल्यवान् प्रशंसितः प्रियश्च पदार्थः, उल्लेखनीयतया व्यावसायिको नवोन्मेषयुक्तश्च भविष्यतीति प्रत्याशा क्रियते। A' Design Award कांस्यपुरस्कारं जितवद् एतद् अभिकल्पकार्यं कलाविज्ञानाभिकल्पप्रौद्योगिकीनां श्रेष्ठतमाः पद्धतीः समावेशयति सूक्ष्मांशेषु ध्यानाच्च उत्कृष्टम् अस्ति। The River is Everywhere नदी सर्वत्र अस्ति अस्माकम् आवश्यकताः सुन्दरं पूरयति, कामनाः स्पृशति, भावान् मोहयति, जिज्ञासां चाकर्षयति।
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Creating a journey on the river for the flow of space of the owners, Upon entering a 200-square-metre apartment, its living room’s the refined textures that first impress. The ceiling of entry was remodelled to create a sleek curved line, rhythm bores applied on partition walls in the living room were elegantly layered across the space to reflect the shadow of trees, like the scene from the river.
The wooden private space, it seems like a boundary between the rivers and caves warmly exits. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 200-square-metre apartment
- Tags
- interior design, minimalist
- Production Technology
- By hand-craft plaster and specialist trades, the house creates an opportunity to experience the interior as a series of surfaces and textures.
We also hoped that utilising a tactile selection of material would give the space’s open floor plan a clean, brightly quality.
Dominating the centre of space is a bespoke dining counter crafted from marble and plastic sheet inlaid with a curved shape mirror leg where the sculptural object can slightly reflect natural lights and shadow movements. - Design Challenge
- For the realization processes, we always conceive of ourselves as a conceptual and experimental designer with a more minimalist vision for the clients, but from a local social perspective in Taiwan, the design of residence has to use plenty of decorative elements to be magnificent.
We are intending to achieve the aesthetic of design methods and materials reconfigured and adapted to suit the needs of the local culture.
We hope that would be a magical way of process slowly extracts all the essences and aroma of Taiwan. - Research
- Chinese had been developed the Xin Dian area along the river by boat since 1909. Nowadays, the development of the area has been built for river sightseeing and urban community.
The purpose of the research of the site location is to try to find out a connection between the background of the owner, the change of Xin Dian and its impacts through “homospatial thinking”.
We deeply believe that result of creating rivers and time flowing must necessarily become a unique experiment for the inhabitant to develop their own existence in the space. - Inspiration
- Features of geography inspired us to make all of these things happen, such as a river surrounded by the apartment, watercourses surrounded by the location of the site.
The client’s background and story recall the character from the novel “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse.
Referencing the spiritual journey of self-discovery of the man in the book to the design minimalist language. The most attractive part is he learned and experienced through the river. - Project Duration
- The project started in April 2020 in Taipei City and finished in May 2021.
- Operation Flow
- The keyframe is how to convert the invisible concept into the visible objects in the space.
Especially the concept is from a character who has been learned and experienced through the river.
We took the scenes that he saw, the means that he seeking to be free and open to profound in the inner of peace, to transforming the philosophy that we felt from the role in the book into the design processes.
We used the natural materials and form of function objects to complement the apartment’s placid interior.
It is an artful lesson on how to align comfort and simplicity. - Team Members
- Tsai Yun Kao
Po Chang Lin
Kai Hung Yang - Image Credits
- Main image and optional images: Photographer Kyle Yu, Variations, 2021.
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