W Plus Fale Teuteu Lauulu by Millton Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Uʻamea in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

UʻameaTotonu· 2021

W Plus Fale Teuteu Lauulu

by Millton Yu

Client: M. INTERIOR DESIGN Co., LTD

A' Design Award Uʻamea Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About W Plus Fale Teuteu Lauulu

W Plus o se fale teuteu lauulu o loʻo tu i totonu o se auala nofoaga i le itu i sasaʻe o Taipei, Taiwani. O totonu o le fale ua fuafuaina i ni laulau agai i luma e tolu, e faavae i luga o se manatu o se togalaau suesuega faasaienisi. O se puipui tioata mai le fola e oo i le faapaʻu e faʻamalamalamaina ai le falelauulu i fafo, aʻo se fogafale sima i le faitotoʻa o loʻo taofia ai se togalaau lanumeamata i totonu. O se puipui sima e tumu i pu lapotopoto e vaevaeina ai potu ae faatumauina pea le vaʻaiga tatala. O le fola efuefu, se laulau galuega uʻamea faʻamaʻa, ma mea toe faʻaaogaina e maua ai ai se vaega malulu i le avanoa e 196 mita faʻatafafa. E fetaui foʻi le avanoa mo faʻaaliga, lauga ma faʻamoemoega eseese.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Uʻamea

O le A' Design Award Uʻamea na manumalo ai W Plus Fale Teuteu Lauulu, o se faamaoniga mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu lelei e faataunuu ai manaʻoga faapolofesa ma pisinisi e faamoemoeina mai galuega ua mamanuina lelei. O ē manumalo i le Uʻamea e faaalia ai le tomai tele, le faapitoa maualuga, le malamalama o tagata poto ma le mafai fatufatuaʻi o ē na faia. E faamoemoeina W Plus Fale Teuteu Lauulu e avea ma mea ua matuā vivii, mataʻina ma pelepelea e aogā ma fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Uʻamea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili o le pisinisi ma e iai uiga faatekonolosi mafai ua fesoʻotaʻi ma le poto ma le taleni. Ona o lona faatuatuaina, e tatau ai W Plus Fale Teuteu Lauulu ona faaaloalogia ma ua mamanuina e tuuina mai ai faaleleiga o le olaga e fesoasoani e faia ai e le lalolagi se nofoaga e sili atu ona lelei.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: W Plus Salon is hidden in a residential alley in the east district of Taipei. With Lab Garden as their design concept, three progressive layers of areas are planned to express spatial appeals, furnishing a sophisticated indoor experience of lavishness.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project is 196 square meter.
Tags: Hair Salon, Commercial, Interior Design, Space, W Plus
Production Technology: A floor-to-ceiling glass curtain is used for the exterior walls of the salon. The interactions between indoor and outdoor sceneries create a broad, boundless view. When people walk into the entrance, they are greeted with an indoor green garden on a concrete platform. The concrete platform hides the cultivating sight with a sense of natural penetration. There is also a cement wall screen serving as a room divider, and that wall is filled with round holes, creating a penetrating and enticing view through the holes.
Design Challenge: The experimental spatial concept conveys the philosophy of the client, W Plus Salon, which is to make the space continuously improve, and to prompt the borders of different fields to vanish and then stimulate the new possibility.
Research: Everything in the entire space spreads a slightly cool color, with the flooring and the concrete platform having a consistent grey and rough texture, the reception counter and stainless steel work-surface with a cold grey tone, echoing the cold white lighting and the geometric mirror on the wall. The floating plant area scattered at the outdoor balcony is paved with abandoned cement pipes, sand, and gravel, while indoor materials are mostly made of recycled and renewed products.
Inspiration: Haircut is a homonym of subtraction in Mandarin, and this brings out the design concept for this project- subtracting what is unnecessary to give a new look with a beautiful addition relationship. The W Plus Salon space emphasizes the evolution from subtraction to addition, fully elucidating its new brands spirit after its nine years in brewing.
Project Duration: The project finished in June 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: There is no obvious boundary in the space; however, each area is individual but connective harmoniously at the same time, presenting a conceptual experimental space. The space is not only for hair salon, but for exhibition, presentation, party, lecture, or anything that can take place in it.
Team Members: Designer: Millton Yu
Image Credits: Image #1-5: Photographer Alvic Han, W Plus, 2020.