Life Savoring 住宅室内设计 by Yueh Ju Tsai is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

铁室内· 2021

Life Savoring 住宅室内设计

by Yueh Ju Tsai

Client: Heng Yueh Design

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About Life Savoring 住宅室内设计

《品味生活》是位于台湾台北一处公寓的住宅室内设计案。室内面积约119平方米，规划有客厅、餐厅、厨房、阳台、三间卧室与两间卫浴。黑、白与木质色调构成主要色彩基调。设计上刻意舍弃展示柜体，以减轻视觉重量，维持简洁的空间秩序。整体动线采无障碍规划，各空间皆设置扶手，并预留日后加装安全设施的空间，使住宅能够契合屋主退休生活的使用需求。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Life Savoring 住宅室内设计是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Life Savoring 住宅室内设计将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Life Savoring 住宅室内设计因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: In this elegant and low-saturation-color space, the designer creates an environment with modern and simple design, smooth flow, and spacious pattern. In response to clients clean living habits, the design uses black and white as the main axis, and avoids the use of display cabinets, reducing the visual oppression and forming a simple spatial order. Plus, the designer has considered occupants declining mobility and deterioration of daily abilities due to aging, the layout is based on barrier-free space, so as to build a residence suitable for clients current and future use.
Dimensions & Packaging: The actual size of the interior is about 119 square meters, and the layout includes a living room, dining room, kitchen, balcony, three bedrooms, and two bathrooms.
Tags: Modernity and simplicity, Burden-less housing, Home for retirement, Black and white color tone, Old house renovation, Residential design
Production Technology: Emulsion paint, Railway tile, Azulejo, Super wear-resistant wooden floor, Waterproof floor, quartz brick / polished quartz brick, Iron parts, Baking paint, System board, Tile, Artificial stone, Stone, Glass
Design Challenge: Since the house is nearly 50 years old, many difficulties need to be overcome in the process of renovation. In addition to the old pipeline repairment, the designer also has to readjust the overall layout and flow planning to create a comfortable living area for couples who love tidiness.
Research: The designer eliminates extra decoration in the overall space design, and uses a simple and concise design technique to create a neat home with a combination of black, white, and wooden color tones. The design of this case is especially based on envisions of a living field for retirement. In addition to the spacious spatial scale, the design retains spaces for future installation of safety facilities, and due to the clients personality, the style of the space is also built with clean and neat design elements.
Inspiration: Incorporating the clients living habits into the planning of the design, designers focuses on simple ambience, smooth flows, and humanized functional equipment. Especially because the client is about to enter the stage of retirement, in the overall design of this project, in addition to retain the location of the future installation of safety facilities in this spacious space, the planning process also considers the direction of the door opening, the smoothness of the flow and other factors, which improves the safety and tailor-made the perfect living environment for the client.
Project Duration: The project was completed in April 2020 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: Since the house is about 40-50 years old, problems exist in the original housing conditions and the flow planning, so the designer readjusts the layout of the public and private areas and removes the French door of the front balcony to enlarge the living room space, and close the patio on the corridor, bringing a more comfortable life. By changing the location of the kitchen and dining room, and altering the original four rooms into a three-bedroom layout, it expands the sleeping and bathroom space of the master bedroom. Also, the designer has put armrests in each space to avoid the accidents.
Team Members: Tsai, Yueh-Ju
Image Credits: Heng Yueh Design