Cha-Mi Falemai Saina by Li-Yu Cheng is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Apamemea in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

ApamemeaTotonu· 2021

Cha-Mi Falemai Saina

by Li-Yu Cheng

Client: StudioX4

A' Design Award Apamemea Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About Cha-Mi Falemai Saina

O loʻo i totonu o le taulaga o Taipei, o lenei falemaʻi faʻataʻitaʻiga o loʻo tausisia le tulaga faʻapitoa o falemaʻi, aloese mai le tele o auala uumi i totonu o potu faufautua, lea e le fiafia i toeaina ma mafua ai ona tauaso. O le fa'atonuga fa'apitoa e fa'atumauina le fa'atotonugalemu e ala i le fa'avasegaina o fa'asologa masani, fa'asalalau auala o potu fa'ata'ita'i ma fausia se fuafuaga fa'ata'atia-li'o. O lo'o tu'ufa'atasia faiga fa'aautomai atamai i le resitalaina, fale talavai, ma fa'amatalaga totogi, lea e le gata ina sili atu le fa'agasologa o fa'atalanoaga, ae fa'apena fo'i le fa'amalieina o faiga fa'atekonolosi o lo'o o'o mai i le lumana'i lata mai.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Apamemea

O le A' Design Award Apamemea na manumalo ai Cha-Mi Falemai Saina, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu ese e iloga i le fatufatuaʻi, le atamai ma le poto. O ē manumalo i le Apamemea o mea e iai le tomai atoa ma fatufatuaʻi mataʻina e faamaonia ai le poto masani tele, le mafaufau ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Cha-Mi Falemai Saina e avea ma mea e vivii tele, ua pelepelea, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Apamemea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili i le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi ma e sili ona lelei i le mataituina o mea itiiti. Cha-Mi Falemai Saina e faamalieina matagofie manaʻoga, pa i manaʻo, faalataina lagona ma faaosofia le fia iloa.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Amid downtown, converged at traditional food markets and financial hubs, Songshan district of Taipei city, contrary to common storefronts at the ground floor, Cha-Mi Chinese Medicine clinic is situated at the third story of the building, providing higher privacy to patients. Within 495 square meter of space, the interior comprises consulting rooms, the dispensary, VIP therapy rooms, and laboratories.
Dimensions & Packaging: Construction area 495 square meter.
Tags: Wood, Wood-working, Minimalism, Oriental Design, Clinic Design
Production Technology: Concentric form is naturally innate existence like a seed, whose round and effortless contour avert indifference stereotypes of a clinic and sooth mental pressure for patients. Away from redundant colors, clean white backdrops and woodworks in oak took minimal usage of material, resonating calm ambiance. Light freely transmits through three elevations of heights, which better illumination condition and create enticing visuality.
Design Challenge: Moreover, in order to provide better medical service, intelligent automation systems are installed and integrated at registration, dispensary, and description payment, which not only shorten the consulting process, but also comply with tech-life trends coming in the near future.
Research: Another mention that, people barely notice the actual presence of herb therapy, which derives from withered grass. While seasonal herbal grasses flourish in 6 test tubes around registration, the uncertainty of life and death is awakened, echoing to daily errands of the clinic, resonating like an endless loop.
Inspiration: Based on Chinese character denotation, Cha refers to tea and Mi means rice. Probing to derivative connotation, tea is made from herb and rice is essential to meal. Our client started this clinic, expecting to help patients get recovered with effective and harmless herbal therapy.
Project Duration: Started from November 2019 and finished in June 2020. Taipei city.
Operation Flow: Every well-rounded hospital concerns a safety issue of avoiding excessively long passage between consulting rooms, which easily causes blind spots and is unfriendly to the elders. How to configure appropriate passages for patients thus becomes the first concern of this project. Inspired by the contour of satellite, disperses routes of therapy rooms and re-merges with registration and dispensary sections forms a centralized-circle layout; in other words, the master-planning forges centralization by decentralization of regular compartmental layout.
Patents: Copyrights belong to StudioX4.
Team Members: Li-Yu Cheng
Yu-Chen Chen
Image Credits: YHLAA