Sissis Wonderland 阅读空间 by Leo Sun is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 金奖 in 室内空间与展览设计 Competition Category.

金室内· 2020

Sissis Wonderland 阅读空间

by Leo Sun

Client: Muxin Studio

A' Design Award 金奖 Winner in 室内 Category

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The Design

About Sissis Wonderland 阅读空间

西西的仙境是一处位于上海、面积108平方米的儿童阅读空间。空间布局的灵感源自吹泡泡的游戏，不同尺度的房间彼此相连，使开放区域与私密区域相互交叠。设计以木材为主要材料，搭配白色涂料与柔和的灰色地面。高低错落的台阶、兼作座椅的书架、曲折的坡道和小拱门，均按照儿童尺度建造。绿色植物在空间交汇处生长。该设计将空间本身转化为一件供孩子探索与玩耍的大型玩具。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金奖

Sissis Wonderland 阅读空间是 A' Design Award 金奖得主，这是授予一流、绝妙而杰出设计的极为崇高的认可。金奖得主是极具创新、极富远见且璀璨夺目的创作，反映出其设计师的天才、智慧与才干。预计Sissis Wonderland 阅读空间将成为一项备受赞誉、引领潮流、气势恢宏的发明，带来前所未有的价值。这件赢得 A' Design Award 金奖的设计是一个壮观而受人敬重的项目，极大地造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Sissis Wonderland 阅读空间激起强烈的渴望，唤起激情，鼓励创造力，令我们着迷。

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: After careful researches on various existing cases, designers found that the traditional way of children space design, with its flamboyant decoration, superficial embellishment and excessive use of meaningless figures, has lost its attractiveness. Hence they choose to make the project different by concentrate on the shape of the space itself, it's an attempt to turn the space itself into a giant toy, in which children can freely explore, discover and create their own lively experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: The project covers a total of 108 square meters. Thinking from the perspective of a child, designers planned and divided the space in children's scales. Though spatially limited by the floor area, they managed to squeeze in stairs with different heights, bookshelves that also serves as chairs, zigzagging ramps and mini arches in children's size. All of these are in children's scale. Boys and girls can climb up and down or play hide-and-seek in these facilities without parents worrying about potential dangers and injuries.
Tags: Interior, Parent-child Reading Space, Modern, Simple, Art, Interesting, Bubbles, Muxin Studio, Nature
Production Technology: In order to elicit an amicable relationship between the space created and the surrounding plants, as well as to bring children closer to the nature, designers use wood as the main building material. The selection of white paint and the soft grey floor glue further guarantees the children a safe and interesting place to play, learn and interact. They grow green plants on the boundaries where different spaces meet, which helps sustaining the dynamic among person, space and nature.
Design Challenge: The main topic of the project is to give different configurations according to different realms in spaces. Since spaces with different functions communicate and fusion with each other, a multitude of spatial forms and hierarchies are created.
Research: The varieties of spatial typology provide children with experiential guidance to explore boundaries between public and private spaces. During the process of moving through spaces with various qualities, the Introvert and extrovert tendencies of children are well reflected in their behaviors. In the experimental children reading space project, designers are aiming to create a cozy and amicable places for children to read and play, a place that inspires their imagination and creativity.
Inspiration: The configuration of spaces follows an idea inspired by the game of blowing bubbles: several spaces are arranged according to their scales and functions before recombined and attached like bubbles. Since spaces with different functions communicate and fusion with each other, a multitude of spatial forms and hierarchies are created, in which openness and independence, public and private, interior and exterior are overlapped and interconnected in a creative and pleasant way.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2018 in Shanghai and finished in November 2018 in Shanghai.
Operation Flow: According to many researches, children of three to seven years old are in their most sensitive period of growing from their subjective worlds to the objective world. A flowing space like this helps expanding their perceiving and communicating abilities and reveal the true and creative nature in a child.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Leo Sun, 2018.
Team Members: Yves Zhang
Leo Sun
Yiye Zhang
Dawei Jiang
Shuhang Zhang
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Bookshelves, 2018.
Image #2: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Mini Arches, 2018.
Image #3: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Reading Space, 2018.
Image #4: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Reading Space 2, 2018.
Image #5: Photographer Daqi Zhang, Corridor, 2018.