White Box Faleoloa Lavalava by Xiaoying Huang

White Box Faleoloa Lavalava by Xiaoying Huang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Auro in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

AuroTotonu· 2020

White Box Faleoloa Lavalava

by Xiaoying Huang

Client: China Seven Construct Space Design Co., Ltd

A' Design Award Auro Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About White Box Faleoloa Lavalava

O le White Box o se totonu o le faleoloa lavalava o loo i Rui'an, Wenzhou. E tusa ma le 35 sikuea mita le lautele o le faleoloa. E laititi le faitotoa i luma, ma ua suia le faamalama faaali masani i se faamalama umi faalava ma se fogaeleele lautele paepae i lalo ifo. Ua faaaogaina le lanu paepae i le fausaga faigofie e pei o se pusa, ma ua faatulagaina ave o moli e faailoa ai le fola terrazzo paepae. Na faaopoopoina se tamai fogafale pito i luga (loft) e faateleina ai le avanoa e mafai ona faaaogaina ma ia tumau ai le lelei o le faatulagaga o le fuafuaga. O faasitepu oak, moli i lalo o vae ma fasi moli faasolo e fesootai ai fogafale e lua.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Auro

O le A' Design Award Auro na manumalo ai White Box Faleoloa Lavalava, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu o le tulaga muamua, matagofie ma maoaʻe. O ē manumalo i le Auro o galuega fou tele, matuā vaai i le lumanaʻi ma susulu e faaalia ai le atamai, le poto ma le tomai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina White Box Faleoloa Lavalava e avea ma mea fou e matuā vivii, e faatulaga ai uiga fou ma tetele, e tuuina mai ai se tau e leʻi iai muamua. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Auro o se galuega ofoofogia, ua faaaloalogia, e aogā tele ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. White Box Faleoloa Lavalava e fatuina ai lagona malosi o le manaʻo, faaosofia le tuinanau, faalauiloa le fatufatuaʻi ma faamalosia i tatou.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: In this case, the store takes an area of only 35 square meters. The front door is small, and the traditional display window is replaced by a horizontally long window with much white at the bottom. In this simple box-liked structure, white is massively used and the light beams are well designed to make the white-colored terrazzo floor more elegant. We built a mini loft to meet its functional purpose. The oak stairs, the footlights and the light stripes are another ingenious designs to connect the space.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project takes an area of 32 square meters. The inner structure has a width of 5300mm and depth of 5250mm and height of 4550mm, which takes an area of 28 square meters. There is an extended area with a width of 5400mm and depth of 690mm, which makes an area of 3.7 square meters.
Tags: White box, light, shadow, pure, structral, outstretched
Production Technology: White is such a permissive color that we make the best of white by using it massively in this room. Light is appropriately used to make the beam of light play a specific guiding role in dealing with the aerial perspective relationship of vertical and horizontal space. The floor is covered with white-colored terrazzo, which makes this clean room even more elegant. The stone would feels like warm and softened under the gentle light.
Design Challenge: The hardest part of this design is the room takes an area of only 35 square meters. It's quite difficult to meet the balance of function and visual appearence.
Research: A classic space will never exist without the presence of a human being. The interaction between space and human being always enlivens and warms up the space, making it a full-of-story space, while the designer is just out there to get the story ready to tell. The designer needs to take a prior consideration on the relationship between construction and space to make the space more interesting and memorable and with more speciality.
Inspiration: The space and time are infinitive, the space lives only in the current time. A classic space will never exist without the presence of a human being. The interaction between space and human being always enlivens and warms up the space, making it a full-of-story space, while the designer is just out there to get the story ready to tell.
Project Duration: Located in Rui'an, Wenzhou, the project was designed in April 2019 and finished in May 2019.
Operation Flow: The front door is small, and the traditional display window is replaced by a horizontally long window with much white at the bottom to attract the passerbys. We built a mini loft in this room, because we believe another mini space in a small room will extend the room itself and make it well-organized. Furthermore, the room will also be fully used in functional purpose.
Patents: Copyrights belong to CHINA SEVEN CONSTRUCT SPACE DESIGN CO.,LTD.
Team Members: Qi Zheng Huang
Xiao Ying Huang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Di Li, 2019
Image #2: Photographer Di Li, 2019
Image #3: Photographer Di Li, 2019
Image #4: Photographer Di Li, 2019
Image #5: Photographer Di Li, 2019