The River is Everywhere Ìdàrí Abẹ́nu Ilé Ibùgbé by Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award in Àpẹẹrẹ Àyà Inú Ilé àti Ibi Àfihàn Competition Category.
IdẹInú Ilé· 2022
The River is Everywhere Ìdàrí Abẹ́nu Ilé Ibùgbé
by Tsai-Yun Kao, Po-Chang Lin and Kai-Hung Yang
Client: 317studio
Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award Winner in Inú Ilé Category
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About The River is Everywhere Ìdàrí Abẹ́nu Ilé Ibùgbé
Odò Wà Níbi Gbogbo jẹ́ ìṣàpẹẹrẹ abẹ́nu ilé ibùgbé fún àyè ìgbé-ayé kan tó ní mítà onígun mẹ́rin igba (200) ní Ìlú Taipei. Àpẹẹrẹ yìí fa ìmísí láti inú odò tó wà nítòsí àti kókó-ọ̀rọ̀ ìrìnàjò ẹ̀mí. A tún àjà ẹnu-ọ̀nà ṣe di ìlà tí ó rọ̀ dáadáa tí ó sì yí padà. Àwọn ojú-ọ̀nà tí a to léraléra lórí ògiri ìpínyà ilé-ìjókòó ń dá òjìji tí ó rán ni létí àwọn igi tí a rí láti ojú odò wá. A fi ọwọ́ ṣe ìparí àwọn ojú-ilẹ̀ pilasita láti fún ìlànà ìṣílọ́wọ́ (open plan) ní ìwà mímọ́ àti dídán. Káuntà oúnjẹ àkànṣe kan tí a fi ọ̀kúta mábù (marble) àti ike aláwọ̀ dà ṣe, pẹ̀lú ẹsẹ̀ dígí tí ó rọ̀, dúró ní àárín gbùngbùn àyè náà.
The Recognition
About the Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award
The River is Everywhere Ìdàrí Abẹ́nu Ilé Ibùgbé jẹ́ olùborí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award, ìdánimọ̀ olókìkí gan-an tí a fún àwọn àwòṣe tó tayọ tí wọ́n yàtọ̀ nípasẹ̀ ìṣẹ̀dá, àrékérekè àti ọgbọ́n inú. Àwọn olùborí Idẹ jẹ́ àwọn ohun èlò tó ní ìjáfáfá gan-an tí wọ́n sì ní ìṣẹ̀dá tó yani lẹ́nu tí wọ́n ń ṣe ẹ̀rí ìrírí gbígbòòrò, ìrònú àti ọgbọ́n àwọn olùṣàwòṣe wọn. A retí pé The River is Everywhere Ìdàrí Abẹ́nu Ilé Ibùgbé yóò jẹ́ ohun tí a kà sí gidigidi, tí a gbóríyìn fún tí a sì nífẹ̀ẹ́, tó jẹ́ ti ọ̀jáfáfá lọ́nà tó ṣe pàtàkì tó sì ní ìmúṣẹ̀dá tuntun. Àwòṣe tó borí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Idẹ A' Design Award yìí ń kó àwọn ọ̀nà tó dára jùlọ nínú iṣẹ́ ọnà, sáyẹ́ǹsì, àwòṣe àti ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ jọ, ó sì tayọ nítorí àfiyèsí rẹ̀ sí àwọn àlàyé kékeré. The River is Everywhere Ìdàrí Abẹ́nu Ilé Ibùgbé ń tẹ́ àwọn ohun tí a nílò lọ́rùn lọ́nà àgbàyanu, ó ń fọwọ́ kan àwọn ìfẹ́ inú, ó ń gbà ọkàn ó sì ń fa ìfẹ́ láti mọ̀ mọ́ra.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Creating a journey on the river for the flow of space of the owners, Upon entering a 200-square-metre apartment, its living room’s the refined textures that first impress. The ceiling of entry was remodelled to create a sleek curved line, rhythm bores applied on partition walls in the living room were elegantly layered across the space to reflect the shadow of trees, like the scene from the river.
The wooden private space, it seems like a boundary between the rivers and caves warmly exits. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 200-square-metre apartment
- Tags
- interior design, minimalist
- Production Technology
- By hand-craft plaster and specialist trades, the house creates an opportunity to experience the interior as a series of surfaces and textures.
We also hoped that utilising a tactile selection of material would give the space’s open floor plan a clean, brightly quality.
Dominating the centre of space is a bespoke dining counter crafted from marble and plastic sheet inlaid with a curved shape mirror leg where the sculptural object can slightly reflect natural lights and shadow movements. - Design Challenge
- For the realization processes, we always conceive of ourselves as a conceptual and experimental designer with a more minimalist vision for the clients, but from a local social perspective in Taiwan, the design of residence has to use plenty of decorative elements to be magnificent.
We are intending to achieve the aesthetic of design methods and materials reconfigured and adapted to suit the needs of the local culture.
We hope that would be a magical way of process slowly extracts all the essences and aroma of Taiwan. - Research
- Chinese had been developed the Xin Dian area along the river by boat since 1909. Nowadays, the development of the area has been built for river sightseeing and urban community.
The purpose of the research of the site location is to try to find out a connection between the background of the owner, the change of Xin Dian and its impacts through “homospatial thinking”.
We deeply believe that result of creating rivers and time flowing must necessarily become a unique experiment for the inhabitant to develop their own existence in the space. - Inspiration
- Features of geography inspired us to make all of these things happen, such as a river surrounded by the apartment, watercourses surrounded by the location of the site.
The client’s background and story recall the character from the novel “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse.
Referencing the spiritual journey of self-discovery of the man in the book to the design minimalist language. The most attractive part is he learned and experienced through the river. - Project Duration
- The project started in April 2020 in Taipei City and finished in May 2021.
- Operation Flow
- The keyframe is how to convert the invisible concept into the visible objects in the space.
Especially the concept is from a character who has been learned and experienced through the river.
We took the scenes that he saw, the means that he seeking to be free and open to profound in the inner of peace, to transforming the philosophy that we felt from the role in the book into the design processes.
We used the natural materials and form of function objects to complement the apartment’s placid interior.
It is an artful lesson on how to align comfort and simplicity. - Team Members
- Tsai Yun Kao
Po Chang Lin
Kai Hung Yang - Image Credits
- Main image and optional images: Photographer Kyle Yu, Variations, 2021.
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