Iron Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020

Sunshine Villa Residence

by Yanlai Xiao

A' Design Award 2020 Iron Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Awarded April 15, 2020
CLIENT: Gucang Design
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About Sunshine Villa Residence

Sunshine Villa is a residential interior design for a three-floor house that faces a street. The interior area covers 300 square meters and the garden covers 261 square meters. The staircase was moved to the street frontage, so the living room and bedrooms face the inner garden. The new layout reduces the effect of the noisy street on the living spaces. Soundproof glass along the staircase and a large floor-to-ceiling glass door increase natural light. The living room connects to the garden in several places, and the garden holds two recreational areas.

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Unique Properties: The designer reconstructs the original architectural space and makes the interior space layout more reasonable by moving the original staircase position, which circumvents the disadvantages of street architecture and greatly enhances the overall value of the villa.
Dimensions & Packaging: The interior area for the project is 300 square meters.
The garden area for the project is 261 square meters.
There are three floors in total.
Tags: Interior, design, structural transformation, space, lighting, stairs
Production Technology: The design focuses on solving problems such as spatial planning of the street architecture. The design idea is to help users integrate with the natural environment as much as possible in a state of sufficient privacy to create a sunny and natural living environment, including: Firstly, reasonable spatial planning: the designer moves the interior staircase to the street frontage, and the living room and bedroom are adjusted to the landscape facing the interior garden, thus minimizing the impact of the outdoor environment on the living space. Secondly, improvement of interior lighting: the exterior walls along the staircase is transformed into soundproof glass. The living room on the first floor adopts large floor-to-ceiling glass door, which greatly increases indoor space lighting on the plane and facade. Thirdly, interaction between human and nature: unified planning is made on the garden and interior space. The living room and the garden are connected in multiple places, and even some living room functions are moved into the garden, making the living space fully integrate with the outdoor natural environment.
Design Challenge: The building faces the street with noisy outdoor environment, so the privacy and living comfort in the house are greatly affected. However, the structure of the building cannot be changed, which requires the designer to reconstruct the spatial layout through interior transformation. By relocating the stairs, the designer changes the spatial plan and adjusts all the main living space to face the backyard, therefore the function layout becomes more reasonable, even enhance the value of the villa.
Project Duration: Project Design Period: February 2018 - April 2018 Project Construction Project Period: March 2018-September 2018
Project Completion: 10 September, 2018
Project Location: Country Garden Community, Enshi City, Hubei Province, China
Operation Flow: Interior space planning has a huge impact on the lifestyle of the occupants. The designer makes unified planning on the interior space and the backyard garden. The interior and exterior synchronization design connects the living room and the garden in multiple places. The large-scale open design makes the interaction between people and nature more thorough, and also makes the living conditions of the owner's family more healthy and close to nature.
Research: Spatial planning and transformation of street architecture.
Reconstruction of spatial layout through interior transformation.
Reasonable layout of spatial motion trend and residential functions.
Integration of living space and outdoor natural environment.
Optimizing natural lighting of the living environment.
Inspiration: The young couple, owners of the villa, love nature and sunshine, hoping to create a living room in a garden. The designer unifies planning of the living room and the rear garden, connects the living room with three walls, and sets up two recreational areas in the garden, which makes the garden and living room fully integrates in space and function, creating a natural living environment in a city.
Image Credits: Photographer: Jiang Chuan
Patents: Copyright: Chongqing Gucang Decoration Design Engineering Co., Ltd.

Colors of Sunshine Villa Residence

Slightly Cool Partial

Cool Partial

Slightly Warm Partial

Cool Vertical

Neutral Vertical

Design Interview about Sunshine Villa Residence

The young couple, owners of the villa, love nature and sunshine, hoping to create a living room in a garden. The designer unifies planning of the living room and the rear garden, connects the living room with three walls, and sets up two recreational areas in the garden, which makes the garden and living room fully integrates in space and function, creating a natural living environment in a city.

The design focuses on solving problems such as spatial planning of the street architecture. The design idea is to help users integrate with the natural environment as much as possible in a state of sufficient privacy to create a sunny and natural living environment, including: Firstly, reasonable spatial planning: the designer moves the interior staircase to the street frontage, and the living room and bedroom are adjusted to the landscape facing the interior garden, thus minimizing the impact of the outdoor environment on the living space. Secondly, improvement of interior lighting: the exterior walls along the staircase is transformed into soundproof glass. The living room on the first floor adopts large floor-to-ceiling glass door, which greatly increases indoor space lighting on the plane and facade. Thirdly, interaction between human and nature: unified planning is made on the garden and interior space. The living room and the garden are connected in multiple places, and even some living room functions are moved into the garden, making the living space fully integrate with the outdoor natural environment.

The new design changed the original position of the staircase, removed all internal walls, and the entire space layout was reconstructed.

The building faces the street with noisy outdoor environment, so the privacy and living comfort in the house are greatly affected. However, the structure of the building cannot be changed, which requires the designer to reconstruct the spatial layout through interior transformation. By relocating the stairs, the designer changes the spatial plan and adjusts all the main living space to face the backyard, therefore the function layout becomes more reasonable, even enhance the value of the villa.The owner approached us as the New Year approached, and the time was more urgent. At the same time, they also found another design company. Under the balance of all aspects of the owners, although the other party promised to produce the drawings within a week, they still chose us more confidently. At that time, we gave four sets of plans, each of which had a relatively good effect. The owners and family members also gave great support, and chose the one with the most changes, which is of course the best. The biggest change means increased construction difficulty and time, so time is tight and tasks are heavy.