Manhattan Gleam 住宅 by I-Ju Chan and Hsuan-Yi Chen

Manhattan Gleam 住宅 by I-Ju Chan and Hsuan-Yi Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

铁室内· 2020

Manhattan Gleam 住宅

by I-Ju Chan and Hsuan-Yi Chen

Client: Merge Interiors

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About Manhattan Gleam 住宅

為突顯單身貴族只有一個人生活的自在感，拆掉多餘的隔間牆，讓客廳、餐廳、廚房的空間屬性消去，讓其相連，不但讓視線、光線和空氣可以自然地流動，營造出敞闊的生活空間。美式的都會時尚風，最能襯顯豪宅精緻品味的魅力。為繼承美式古典的舒適大方，褪去了華麗繁複的歷史綴飾，仍保留了美式新古典的俐落簡約與現代。追逐摩登現代，搭配具有時尚感的家具，成為現代都會的雅痞貴族，打造美東曼哈頓的都會風情。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Manhattan Gleam 住宅是 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Manhattan Gleam 住宅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。Manhattan Gleam 住宅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: Consideration came from client lifestyle. Client is a single male who hopes the space will bring Manhattan uptown ambience, grasp bachelor joy and freedom. When friends visit, can have a drink, talk, watch match, and have space to enjoy party together. With metropolis modern style, draw taste of an ultimate noble. With simple figure benchmark, make whole space looks simpler, brighter and wider, with American retro couch, king and queen chair set, bring out the dynamic metropolitan characteristic.
Dimensions & Packaging: Create modern like Manhattan city lifestyle, made the house fit for often with friends have fun and enjoy party. Front-back terraces planned with an open layout. Made dining hall and living room as walkway to terrace, offer spacious flexible open space. Use the original guest bathroom layout, re-adjusted study room removed many partitions, make it more spacious. In a private area, study room wrapped in a pattern show a low-profile, extravagant sense of luxury, presenting exclusive private space.
Tags: King Chair, Queen Chair, Multi-Grinding, Manhattan, American Metropolis, Modern
Production Technology: Whole space uses multi-grind flooring gives original rustic charm. Gray grind flooring has no seams, easy to clean, also creates clear and spacious space. The condensation of the cement condensation shaped unity of the space. Vintage American leather couch paired with king and queen chair in the living room, draw elegant of the client low-profile personality. Back of tall chair and circular handle, fully cover the person seat inside. Bedroom with parquet create a warm retro feel creates a calm and warm atmosphere.
Design Challenge: To make the form of the kitchen bar and function dimension have connectivity with space, the designer particularly rotates it 90 degrees, so that the kitchen bar dining table with about 3m long timber table, which retains the warm and lustrous texture of the wood. With a row hanging lamps on top of the bar dining table, echoing clear yellow light. After the logs are transported by cranes, the carpentry painted on-site, retaining wood natural texture and bring city-style great detail.
Research: Whole spaces are realization of lifestyle of bachelor, made the space like a simple and stylish playground, despite projection screen of 100-inch living room, space to sit and watch a game, or maybe drink in the dining hall or terrace, no matter which public area it is, all can turn into friends gathering spot. The sharp gap between the master bedroom and living room not only present smooth space flow but also form single territory. No matter where it is, privacy not a problem.
Inspiration: To highlight freedom of a bachelor lives alone, removed the living room, dining hall and kitchen wall partition, connect them not only by sight, light and airflow, but also create open living space. American metropolis style can best manifest the charm of the luxury fine house. Take off the historical decoration, yet retain the American neoclassical modernity to carry on American classic cozy and generous style. Pursue modernity, with stylish furniture creating modern East Manhattan metropolis.
Project Duration: The project finished in January, 2017 in Taipei ,Taiwan.
Operation Flow: For client does not like front-back terrace original tiles, grille is used to cover it. Used German imported floor riser device to avoid damaging initial tiles, enable full restoration. In the bedroom, suspended TV wall extend from the middle, the wall does not appear stagnant due to connection to the ground, maintain visual permeability. Special design ceiling to avoid pipeline beams and columns have wavy shape balancing the space. Connected both function of sides, which enriches the master bedroom.
Team Members: I Ju Chen
Hsuan Yi Chen
Image Credits: Kyle Yu Photo, 2017