Interpretation of Dream 住宅室内设计 by Wen Hsueh Wu

Interpretation of Dream 住宅室内设计 by Wen Hsueh Wu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

铜室内· 2020

Interpretation of Dream 住宅室内设计

by Wen Hsueh Wu

Client: VVU Arterior Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About Interpretation of Dream 住宅室内设计

《解梦》是台湾一处约165平方米公寓的住宅室内设计作品,设计融汇了东西方美学。传统家具与配饰同现代艺术品、织物及雕塑感灯具相互搭配。餐区旁一扇大型软包推拉门巧妙隐藏了储藏室。主卧的主墙面以织入反光金属丝的丝绸饰面,呈现出宛如水平书法笔触的线条与大理石纹理。各功能区并非以墙体分隔,而是通过家具布局加以界定。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Interpretation of Dream 住宅室内设计是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Interpretation of Dream 住宅室内设计将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Interpretation of Dream 住宅室内设计出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: To meet the owner’s desire of Western and oriental culture, the project features traditional elements by furnitures, accessories that complement from fabrics, sculptural lights to modern artwork and objects. Passing the corridor lead us to the bedrooms, there is an artwork from Marc Quinn as a visual impact on the way to bedrooms. He depicted orchid by low saturated outlines with high density of colors scattering and dropping as the flow. Along with the concept of mixed culture, the wallpaper is made of silk with reflective metallic yarn in master bedroom. The horizontal lines flow like calligraphy also provide a marble veining pattern complemented sculpture of David on the corner, both feature a modern accent.
Dimensions & Packaging: The scale of this residence is around 165㎡. The configuration is set as squared or rectangular for each area due to maximization and efficient utilization, also because of fengshui’s important reputation in Chinese culture. The gigantic sliding upholstery was limited by the width of the fabric, however, by cropping the full pattern into three parts based on visual balance of every division consideration, makes them a completed mapping as its original design.
Tags: Residential, Interior Design, Decoration, Marc Quinn, Kelly Wearstler , Hermes, Nigel Peake
Production Technology: The construction is made by plywood and layers of paints mostly for its matte and firm effect, which takes longer time to finishing. Heavy slate was applied on the TV wall, an artificial stone was chosen for kitchen countertop because of its durable, abrasion resistance and clean-easy properties.
The main wall in master bedroom has selected a decorative material made of silk with reflective metallic yarn, presenting the horizontal calligraphy-like lines and a marble veining pattern for the core concept of Zen art touch.
Design Challenge: As the project was originally constructed by ex-designer, the client was worried about 90% of cost may not be claimed back because of cancellation of contract.
The client spent quite an amount for the apartment, and cost double budget to re-design and extend the construction duration. The difficulties are how to earn trust of our design team, to modify the existing work to meet the budget, to remain the original function and finished parts between different workers without interfering others’ works.
Our design team provided the previous project portfolio done by us, and explained how the concept was made by several comparisons and visual balance demonstration of photoshop mock-up etc., also weeklyupdates and discussion for the process to meet their desire for Christmas celebration in the new home.
Research: Material selection, such as wall covering, curtain’s fabrics and rug, relies on designer’s experience and imagination as effects are varied since materials complements reflect and correspond with others under interior and natural light.
Generally, small material samples cannot fully represent its properties and effect while it is applied on a certain scale, such as fabric draping, color shades are the factors that need to take into account.
For example, the silk wall covering in master bedroom was difficult to be decided from the same collection because of the unpredictable differences under light. It also makes the seam more visible because of a certain thickness of yarn combination. An experimental trial always conducts interesting findings.
Inspiration: The inspiration is originated by a piece of Hermes fabric designed by Nigel Peake, the architect and illustrator, as a perfect backdrop for dining area. It was said that as he wandered in Hermes flagship store, the imagination of a labyrinth-like space while there’s a groom in carriage searching for horses. Nigel visualized the architectural materials to a higher textured and detailed mapping with jacquard and embroidered weaves. This eye-catching screen upholstery helps visitors to overlook it as a functional sliding door for storing. This accomplished the owner’s desire for Western stylish accent with a touch of Zen art.
Project Duration: The project is located in a new apartment in Taiwan.
Due to the client’s unsatisfied with the design by ex-designer, the whole project has been on an on-going stage when we taking over. Hence, it takes quite some time for discussion about re-designing, arranging and integrating the existing work within budget. Though part of the construction has been finished, it causes more difficulties, time and cost, the project has been done in 6 months after taking over from the ex-designer.
Operation Flow: There are three members in the residence, the husband, wife and their only child.
They stays in the dining area mostly, where the interactions happen while they’re having snack and watching TV.
The owner often shows great hospitality by inviting friends over watching sports for weekends, or wine tasting on the walnut table in the open space since the areas are sectioned by furniture layouts instead of walls.
One of a storage room is hidden behind the sliding door of dining table, which can be utilized for storing owner’s heavy motorcycle jacket, helmet or other protective equipments.
Team Members: Wen- Hsueh Wu
Yachen Wu
Shih-I Huang
Image Credits: Photographer Frankie Fang