Play Around The Light Vaʻai i le Malamalama by Chin-Shu Chen

Play Around The Light Vaʻai i le Malamalama by Chin-Shu Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Apamemea in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

ApamemeaTotonu· 2020

Play Around The Light Vaʻai i le Malamalama

by Chin-Shu Chen

Client: Fe Design Company

A' Design Award Apamemea Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About Play Around The Light Vaʻai i le Malamalama

O le Taʻalo i le Malamalama o se mamanu i totonu o se fale mo se fale duplex. E ono mita le maualuga o le potu malolo, ma o lona puipui autū o maʻa ma laupapa e faaumi aʻe i luga e tosina ai le mata. O le faasitepu e fesootai ai fogafale e lua ua tuu i lalo o le potu ʻaiga, ma o lona faavae o loo faaali mai ai faatagata na aoina e le ona o le fale. O le tautau ma le malamalama tuusaʻo e faailoa mai ai galuega faatufugaga. O le vanu tatala i le va o le nofoaga ʻai ma le umukuka e faia ai se tafega faataamilo. Ua vavaeeseina manino le vaega lautele ma le vaega tumaoti, ma o loo lagolagoina le avanoa e ala i le teu natia.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Apamemea

O le A' Design Award Apamemea na manumalo ai Play Around The Light Vaʻai i le Malamalama, 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 Play Around The Light Vaʻai i le Malamalama 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. Play Around The Light Vaʻai i le Malamalama 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: The overall unit is injected with artistic syntax, using the design of natural stone and wood to extend the main wall design of the living room with 6-meter height. The stairways connecting the upper and lower floors are located under the dining room, where the bottom is decorated with the sculpture artworks collected by the owner. The entire stairway shapes the artistic and exciting artworks through suspension and indirect lighting.
Dimensions & Packaging: The inside space have 314 square feet.
Tags: duplex apartment, artworks collection, 6-meter elevated structure, lighting arrangment
Production Technology: The living room with 6-meter height adopts the main wall connected by stone and wood with upward extension to draw the attention in the living room. The open space between the dining and kitchen area provides looping and circular flow to the space, which then becomes the mediator that gathers the relation of the family members and allows the dwellers to perceive the meaning of space existence.
Design Challenge: The details inside the mansion become more vivid and colorful under the alteration of daylight and dark night. The combination of different materials, changes of high and lower levels, expression of spacious openness, and extension of lines and dimensions form the natural concept of humanity.
Research: The introduction of lighting through horizontal visions explains the presentation of transparency through different design and practice. The properties of materials or the ceiling design with open lines and dimension extend the space and lighting, function and interaction. The integration of different materials link up the visual rhythm of all areas, providing perfect explanation for the sounds of lighting and layers, as well as the overall circular design.
Inspiration: In this duplex apartment of 6-meter elevated structure is designed start with consideration for residence, and care the needs of whole family. The nodes of architecture exist in the materials, ratios, lighting and chrome, as well as in the subtle relation of exclusion or attraction.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2017 and finished in December 2017 in Taiwan.
Operation Flow: The duplex apartment design starts with consideration for residence. The design divides the public and private areas distinctly, while the concealing storage function also enhances the space. For lighting arrangement, the elevated structure provides the space with adequate atmosphere and lighting to the space through the lighting atmosphere of multiple nodes and projection with just perfection.