Sissis Wonderland 閱讀空間 by Leo Sun is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 金獎 in 室內空間及展覽設計 Competition Category.

金室內· 2020

Sissis Wonderland 閱讀空間

by Leo Sun

Client: Muxin Studio

A' Design Award 金獎 Winner in 室內 Category

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The Design

About Sissis Wonderland 閱讀空間

Sissis Wonderland係一個為兒童而設嘅閱讀空間，位於上海，面積108平方米。佈局嘅靈感嚟自吹泡泡遊戲，唔同大細嘅房間連接埋一齊，令開放同私密嘅區域互相重疊。木材係主要物料，配合白色油漆同柔和嘅灰色地板飾面。高低唔一嘅樓梯、可以當座位用嘅書架、蜿蜒曲折嘅斜道同細細嘅拱門，全部都按照兒童嘅尺度打造。喺空間交接嘅地方種有綠色植物。呢個設計將空間本身變成一件大型玩具，畀小朋友探索同玩樂。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金獎

Sissis Wonderland 閱讀空間是 A' Design Award 金獎得主，這是授予一流、絕妙而傑出設計的極為崇高的認可。金獎得主是極具創新、極富遠見且璀璨奪目的創作，反映出其設計師的天才、智慧與才幹。預計Sissis Wonderland 閱讀空間將成為一項備受讚譽、引領潮流、氣勢恢宏的發明，帶來前所未有的價值。這件贏得 A' Design Award 金獎的設計是一個壯觀而受人敬重的項目，極大地造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Sissis Wonderland 閱讀空間激起強烈的渴望，喚起激情，鼓勵創造力，令我們著迷。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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.