Transparency Fale Nofoia Mamanu Totonu by Li-Yu Cheng

Transparency Fale Nofoia Mamanu Totonu by Li-Yu Cheng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

ArioTotonu· 2021

Transparency Fale Nofoia Mamanu Totonu

by Li-Yu Cheng

Client: StudioX4

A' Design Award Ario Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About Transparency Fale Nofoia Mamanu Totonu

Massing, fa'atatau, ma le fa'aofiofi o lo'o a'afia i le minimalism lifestyle, lea e tupu a'e i le fa'amalieina o mana'oga fa'aletino fa'atasi ma fa'alavelave lavelave. O le su'esu'eina o fa'auigaga o feso'ota'iga fa'ata'ita'i, ua toe fa'atasia ai e lenei fale mautotogi foliga mai o fete'ena'iga i pi'o ma tulimanu, u'amea fa'aiila ma sima sima, ma fa'atupuina ai se fefiloi lelei. O se puipui e masani ona manatu o se iunite e tasi o se auivi. A mae'a ona fa'aofuina i u'amea u'amea fa'apa'u, ona fa'asolo lea o le puipui i totonu o se uta fa'atino, umukuka, teuina, paipa, 'ea-cons... etc, mea fa'apitoa mo le olaga i aso uma.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Transparency Fale Nofoia Mamanu Totonu, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Transparency Fale Nofoia Mamanu Totonu e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Transparency Fale Nofoia Mamanu Totonu o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Aiming to build up an airy, see-through, light-weight, new simple form of living capacity, this residential apartment is conceptualized by connotations beneath the process of probing metaphysics relation.
Dimensions & Packaging: Construction area 122 square meter.
Tags: Stainless Steel, Metal Fabrication, Minimalism, Metaphysics, Steel Wire, Glass Brick
Production Technology: Massing, proportion, and penetration are involved to be composed of architecture interior space. The wall is considered as a single composition of a three-dimensional framework. After being covered with bent stainless steel, the wall metamorphoses into a functional carrier, which encompasses lighting, bears kitchen, sanitary, storage, pipes, air con, essential fixtures of daily living. While natural light refracts into the curvy wall, its hairline luster adds an enticing touch to spatial forms and expression.
Design Challenge: Restrained by limited passage of stairway, from assembly, welding, polishing, the wire shelving free standing was completely tailor-made on site. The shelving is asymmetrical and it develops its shape through on-site exploration. Every shelf and wire rod is joined with precise measurements and proportion. The consequence adapts to actual condition, culminating with a light-weight but powerful massing with practical functions.
Research: Possible conditions of light, such as opaque and transparency, light transmission and ambient occlusion, generate optical illusions; nevertheless, geometry and linear misalignment can also lead to another visual deception. The consequence induces to think of the fundamental nature of reality, the relationship between substance and attribute, and between potentiality and actuality.
Inspiration: Habitation refers to way or style of living. The lifestyle sprouted from modernism after the industrial revolution era; nowadays, it evolves in an artful taste, the satisfaction of physical needs bonded with philosophical meaning. The minimalism lifestyle encompasses profound thoughts and intricate contexts, which let simplicity become enchanting but arduous to be formed.
Project Duration: Started from June 2020 and finished in Sep 2020. Taipei city.
Operation Flow: Intentionally and experimentally, reunite the integration of seeming contradictions among curves and angles, polylines and straight lines, polished steels and concrete cements, in which everything culminates with moderate fusion.
Patents: Copyrights belong to StudioX4.
Team Members: Li-Yu Cheng
Yu-Chen Chen
Image Credits: YHLAA