Where The Root Is Primary Function: Desain Interior Kantor by Carlie Ling - K.D Hsu

Where The Root Is Primary Function: Desain Interior Kantor by Carlie Ling - K.D Hsu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award Perak in Interior Competition Category.

PerakInterior· 2020

Where The Root Is Primary Function: Desain Interior Kantor

by Carlie Ling - K.D Hsu

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A' Design Award Perak Winner in Interior Category

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The Design

About Where The Root Is Primary Function: Desain Interior Kantor

Book Text: Where The Root Is nyaéta hiji interior kantor anu ayana di hiji wangunan bersejarah di puseur Shanghai. Akar tangkal jadi konsép desain inti. Garis-garis kai walnut nu poék ngaliwatan lalangit anu rata pikeun ngagambarkeun akar-akar anu paselang-pasilih. Lantéy kai anu motifna sarta layar kisi-kisi kai nandaan sirkulasi jeung pamakéan, sedengkeun layar anu muka ngamungkinkeun cahaya jeung hawa asup ngaliwat. Aya tempat panarima teh anu ngabagéakeun tamu jeung mitra profésional. Karpét kulawu jeung lapisan témbok tina wol méré nada anu tengtrem ka wewengkon gawé, sarta kantor pangawas dipisahkeun pikeun mastikeun privasi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Where The Root Is Primary Function: Desain Interior Kantor mangrupa juara A' Design Award Perak, pangakuan anu luar biasa bergengsi anu dipasihkeun ka desain kelas luhur, endah jeung matak kagum. Para juara Perak téh karya anu pohara cemerlang jeung pohara kréatif anu ngagambarkeun kaahlian, bakat jeung kapinteran para désainerna. Where The Root Is Primary Function: Desain Interior Kantor diharepkeun jadi karya anu éndah, karya andalan anu pohara profésional jeung pohara inovatif. Desain juara A' Design Award Perak ieu mangrupa panemuan anu pohara kasohor jeung dikagumi anu mangpaat sarta ngamajukeun watesan seni, élmu, desain jeung téknologi. Where The Root Is Primary Function: Desain Interior Kantor mangrupa kréasi anu pohara diirikeun anu ngahudang kahayang, ngabawa rasa positip, jeung ngahudangkeun rasa heran jeung kagum.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The client of this project is a high-achieving young entrepreneur with great strategic view from Shanghai. He Choose the HsingKuo Building, in the center of Shanghai City, to be the location of the headquarter, situated in a historic building imbued with dark walnut-texture design vocabulary so that all guests and employees can be greeted with a traditional Chinese tea-style reception, so that all professional partners can have a relaxing tea-tasting space for interaction.
Dimensions & Packaging: The interior was planned to accommodate guest reception and office usage, with the open-plan layout for the interactive domain when visitors arrived, as the aroma of quality tea inundated the interior made of widely-used walnut texture and color, as well on screens styled based on classic Chinese window lattices while the transparency afforded by the screen providing good ventilation and light penetration.
Tags: Chinese Tea Art, Office, Wooden Screen,Walnut Timber,Grey Color, High-Tech Woven Fabric
Production Technology: With Circular Sky and Square Earth as the design core which borrowed from the ancient Chinese concept of Round Sky as Roof over the Grid of Earth, the flat ceiling intersected with timber line work to manifest the interwoven roots of Trees, an enriched image of premium spatial quality, while patterned timber flooring and wooden grille screen outline circulation and usage demarcation in a subtle yet connective fashion.
Design Challenge: With such old building in Shanghai, the lack of ceiling height, and of column interval, the design featured lightweight ceiling work and darkened walnut flooring so as to connect with repetitive storage volumes that extends the overall spatial-visual, while the timber grille screen brings transparency and layered quality from different angles, as the open and flexible screen also skillfully divided yet casually connected each sub-spaces.
Research: Around the project site, there are many old trees with winding branches and roots framed by black metal window frames, as the exterior greenery was brought into the interior, permeating through glass partitions before forming an array of layered visuals of light, shadow, and trees. As much the interior was given a consistent warmth, it has also become a space for gathering and consolidation via interaction, epitomized by the interwoven eastern ambiance with western simple line work.
Inspiration: With the unique urban qualities of Shanghai that epitomizes the intersection of East and West, this project is located in a residential building of western-influenced exterior and the old Shanghai-styling interior, a unique elegance in itself. The design team utilized the Root as the core design concept, and dark walnut-texture symbolizing Trees and its steadiness, all of which articulated the stern quality the corporation represents.
Project Duration: The project was completed in May 2019 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow: As the office was treated with grey-color carpet and wool wall carpet for a pure and elegant office ambiance, the office of the supervisor was well concealed and separated from the other open spaces, along with its own tea-tasting room furniture by humble chairs and wooden tables from Ming Dynasty, to ensure privacy, while the back of the room was treated with grey tiles covered by high-tech woven fabric, reminiscence of the traditional Chinese wisdom re-interpreted with modern design vocabulary.
Team Members: Kai Ning Ling
Kai Ti Hsu
Image Credits: Kai-Ti Hsu
Zhao Wu
(2019)