Family Cohesion Fa'atulagaga o totonu o Fale Nofoia by Kai-Chun Ma

Family Cohesion Fa'atulagaga o totonu o Fale Nofoia by Kai-Chun Ma is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Apamemea in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

ApamemeaTotonu· 2020

Family Cohesion Fa'atulagaga o totonu o Fale Nofoia

by Kai-Chun Ma

Client: Eunimax Design

A' Design Award Apamemea Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About Family Cohesion Fa'atulagaga o totonu o Fale Nofoia

Autu Tusi: O le Family Cohesion o se fa'atulagaga totonu o se fale nofoia na fuafuaina mo ulugalii talavou fai ma a latou fanau fa'atoa fananau mai. E aofia ai le fale le tusa ma le 191 futu sikuea i Taipei, Taiwan. O laina ma mea faatumu uliuli ma efuefu e tu'ufa'atasia ai le mama fa'aonaponei ma se lagona o le tofa manino. O le potu malolo e fai ma totonugalemu o le fuafuaga ma fa'alauteleina atu i isi vaega. O le tioata efuefu i le alalaupapa e fa'ateleina ai le manino, a'o le taualuga fa'a-trapezoid i luga a'e o le nofoaga 'ai ma le umukuka e fa'aitiitia ai le lagona o le fa'apipi'i. O mea uma e fa'aoga e le'i o'ona ma e faaeteete i le si'osi'omaga, e aofia ai le vali fa'aulufaleina mai, le stucco ma le diatomaceous earth.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Apamemea

O le A' Design Award Apamemea na manumalo ai Family Cohesion Fa'atulagaga o totonu o Fale Nofoia, 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 Family Cohesion Fa'atulagaga o totonu o Fale Nofoia 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. Family Cohesion Fa'atulagaga o totonu o Fale Nofoia 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: This parent-children unit is designed for young couples with newborns. The black and grey lines and furnishing depict the spatial expression of 80 percent modern neatness and 20 percent coziness. The arrangement of large area accomplishes the casual and stress-relief effect. The living room is the center and extended to other areas. The design intrigues the owner to re-examine his focus of life and warms up the exchange temperature with family, using natural, simple and stress-free space to comfort the soul and the time spending with family.
Dimensions & Packaging: The indoor area is approximately 191 square feet.
Tags: spatial transparency, green materials, line and dimension, open space design
Production Technology: All materials are non-toxic and eco-friendly when giving consideration for providing children with a healthy living space without pressure. For example, the special paint imported from Italy, stucco and diatomaceous earth are used. The different level of brightness and temperature highlight the internal emotion for home. The living room area composes the living requirement using simple functional objects to guide through the open movement through the position of furniture.
Design Challenge: Appealing in lifestyle and promoting parent-children exchange through peoples memory, the design skillfully applies visual extension, crisscross and blending in response to the living movement of dwellers and maintain the perfect flexibility. The color of material is taken into consideration to provide a relaxing and tranquil image of tolerance, which coheres some mesmerizing power through the tension of natural stone pattern and the layers of indirect lighting.
Research: The hallway extends spatial transparency and visual interaction using grey glass, where a display cabinet is designed to store collection with the implication of greeting the guests. The beams serves as the center of space, as the wall, ceiling and study room reflect the image of simplicity. The beam also indirectly balances and softens the space by introducing peoples touch, which derives the cozy longing for freedom. The top of the dining and kitchen area is shaped in a trapezoid to weaken the perception of compression and introduces the rhythm of lighting and shadow by layers through the light strip and patterned stucco.
Inspiration: The perfect artistic model can intrigue life with profound ideas, context and sensation that blend in urban views or natural environment to break away from traditional function based building and space. Such model satisfies the vision so that the concept of aesthetics extends outside in as the most direct mean to approach art.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2018 and finished in December 2018 in Taipei city, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: The linear elements extends the syntax of public and private areas, quoting the graceful taste without excessive installation or decoration, to minimize the spatial colors and respond the health appeal by parents and children for the living environment through eco-friendly green materials. The movement stresses the intimate interaction between areas and provides considerable tranquility and comfort.