Soho Umsebenzi Wangaphakathi Wehhotela

Press Kit

Unique Properties

Five styles, telling five complete stories.
Art contains all kinds of sentiments in life, mixed up with the sensory speculation and reflection from society by the artists, they measure every step they take, express their imagination of the world with their different emotions, to create that art belongs to the life of essence.

Dimensions & Packaging

2F: 16200mm x 6680mm
3F: 16200mm x 6680mm
4F: 16200mm x 6680mm
5F: 16200mm x 6680mm
6F: 16200mm x 6680mm

Tags

Creep design, Pop art, Art Deco ,Street art, Hotel In House

Production Technology

Our designers use different street art colors and materials in these spaces, such as tires, neon lights, masonry, iron pipes, and the combination of creation and artistic redesign unique forms of spatial beauty.

Design Challenge

The integration of culture and art with residential design are full of challenges, knowing the living needs of residential residents, and to achieve the style design of art and culture, designers need to study the characteristic elements of each different art and culture and then incorporate the needs of the residence. Therefore, both the space installation and the furniture need to be communicated with the artists before they are built, so it caused that no one is willing to compromise and concessions constantly, and finally this difficulty is finally completed with the work after working day and night.

Research

Residential design is based on people. Although culture and art are also around people’s lives, but they often do not enter the residential life further. So for this time, the design is to break this boundary and live with the culture you enjoy in every daily moment, to let the whole house become a new world of cultural exchanges.

Inspiration

The space in this building includes five different styles, which interpret the colorful Sylvie Fleury, the multicultural art deco, the social warnings by Banksy, the quiet and gentle Giorgio Morandi, and the black representative Pierre Soulages. They use their art pieces to describe how the art belongs to life, and we paved the space as a story's preface, to accompany people to write a new chapter about art in life.

Project Duration

The design started in June 2020 to July 2020.
The construction time started in August 2020 to November 2020.
Location: No. 46, Ln. 177, Sec. 1, Dunhua S. Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City 106, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Operation Flow

Designers bring multi-cultural and artistic styles on each floor into design, so that each floor can have a new experience. 2F embellishes with color lines and geometric figures in every corner in these spaces, 4F integrates the walls into the color canvas, for letting Giorgio Morandi's color concept is used in the space. On the 5th floor, we used bricks, metal pipes, iron nets, and other street culture elements in the space to create a residence that combines street culture and art.

Image Credits

Photographer: JHENG-DA WU