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

Manhattan Gleam 居住 by I-Ju Chan and Hsuan-Yi Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 室內空間及展覽設計 Competition Category.

鐵室內· 2020

Manhattan Gleam 居住

by I-Ju Chan and Hsuan-Yi Chen

Client: Merge Interiors

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 室內 Category

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The Design

About Manhattan Gleam 居住

灰色調覆蓋，使空間更自然，更寬敞。美國大都市的風情通過大量的混搭，帶來了經典的複古沙發，擺放著現代典雅的材料。集成了前後露台的使用，客廳，餐廳，廚房以及部分過道。為了保持寬敞的流通感，考慮到單身漢的生活，擁有開放空間，打破隔斷牆，營造出低調奢華的感覺，並充滿活力和時尚氣息。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Manhattan Gleam 居住是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Manhattan Gleam 居住將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Manhattan Gleam 居住因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

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