Love Story of City Primary Function: Mamanu o Totonu o Fale Nofoia by Hsu Fu Chu

Love Story of City Primary Function: Mamanu o Totonu o Fale Nofoia by Hsu Fu Chu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Ario in Mamanu Totonu Competition Category.

ArioTotonu· 2020

Love Story of City Primary Function: Mamanu o Totonu o Fale Nofoia

by Hsu Fu Chu

Client: G Design

A' Design Award Ario Winner in Totonu Category

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The Design

About Love Story of City Primary Function: Mamanu o Totonu o Fale Nofoia

Book Text: O le Tala o le Alofa o le Aai ose mamanu o totonu o fale nofoia mo fale fesootai e tolu i le Aai o Taichung, Taiwan. O le esetete e aofia ai le 1000 mita faatafafa. O le mamanu e fesootai ai vaega i totonu ma fafo, e liua ai avanoa vavae ese i fafo i se vaega faasoa mo gaoioiga. O laufanua faatatau i le va o fale e taiala ai le gaoioiga o feoaiga i totonu. O faamalama eletise e faaleleia ai le tafega o le ea ma faaitiitia ai le faaaogaina o le ea malulu. O fausaga o faamalama e galue e pei o faavaa mo le vaaiga ma atagia ai le la tuusao e taofia ai le mafanafana o totonu. O maa ma ta'ita'i e faia ai se sitaili tumau.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ario

O le A' Design Award Ario na manumalo ai Love Story of City Primary Function: Mamanu o Totonu o Fale Nofoia, o se faamaoniga matuā mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu sili ona lelei, matagofie ma mataʻutia. O ē manumalo i le Ario o galuega susulu tele ma fatufatuaʻi e faaalia ai le poto, le taleni ma le atamai o tagata mamanu. E faamoemoeina Love Story of City Primary Function: Mamanu o Totonu o Fale Nofoia e avea ma galuega matagofie, o se fesuiaiga mo isi, e iloga i le tomai faapolofesa ma mea fou loloto. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Ario o se mea e iloga, ua mataʻina e aogā ma tuleia atu tapulaʻa o le faatufugaga, saienisi, mamanu ma tekonolosi. Love Story of City Primary Function: Mamanu o Totonu o Fale Nofoia o se mea e fiafia i ai le toatele, e fafagu ai manaʻoga, aumaia ai lagona lelei ma tupu ai le ofo.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Home is not only a carrier of life, also a core to initiate a chain reaction of city and people, such that a city has different scenes.

The combination focusing on the outdoor and surrounding environments functionally converts the discrete outdoor spaces into an exquisite area for activities, while figuratively resuming the indoor space and amplifying the visual delicacy and copiousness as well. The just right decorations using the electric windows and the stylish window frames concurrently improve the air circulation in the building, save the energy of air conditioning, and reduce the overhead of community.
Dimensions & Packaging: The property is 1000 square meters.
Tags: Interior Design, Residential, House, Space, Building
Production Technology: When the design project began, the designer considered that the connected indoor spaces among three buildings would properly establish residential functions, preserves convenience without disturbing the visual perceptions, and conforms the complete and intriguing elements of spaces. To embody these ideas, the designer created landscapes with specific themes between buildings, the arrangement of space, in addition to showing the changes of styles and the appealing exteriors, that brings about the details at connections all at once directing the indoor traffic flows and closing to nature.
Design Challenge: It’s worth mentioning that, in the public area of building, the stylish window frames entice as the enframed scenery and the theme of space meanwhile. The window frames properly reflecting the direct sunlight effectively maintain the indoor space at the comfortable temperature.
Research: The selection of construction materials favors the clear textures. The structural objects in the format of folding panels replace the decorative details. The enduring materials such as stones and tiles develop the main style of building, thus manifesting the consistency of indoor space and reducing the overheads of community. The electric windows, meanwhile, save the energy of air conditioning.
Inspiration: It is worth mentioning that, in the public area of building, the stylish window frames entice as the enframed scenery and the theme of space meanwhile. The window frames properly reflecting the direct sunlight effectively maintain the indoor space at the comfortable temperature.

The design plan integrating the outdoor landscapes with the entire space arrangement breaks boundaries between the outdoor and indoor environment, furthermore bonding the community relations.
Project Duration: The project finished in October 2017, locates in Taichung City, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: The combination focusing on the outdoor and surrounding environments functionally converts the discrete outdoor spaces into an exquisite area for activities, while figuratively resuming the indoor space and amplifying the visual delicacy and copiousness as well. The just right decorations using the electric windows and the stylish window frames concurrently improve the air circulation in the building, save the energy of air conditioning, and reduce the overhead of community.
Team Members: Director: Hsu Fu Chu
Designer: Hsu Yu Ying