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2016 London Design Awards

spaces, objects, visual, graphic, digital & experience design, design champion, best studio & best start-up, plus over 40 specialist categories

accelerate transformation, celebrate courage, growing demand for design

Project Overview

This project is a new residential reception center, mainly designed for the young generation, which is located at the north of city center and adjacent to air base. This place, with well-preserved natural environment, geological convenience and good living conditions, is becoming one of the emerging development areas in the city.

Project Commissioner

HER-YU Architecture&Interior Design

Project Creator

HER-YU Architecture&Interior Design

Team

Wu-Ching Chou

Project Brief

Taking an emphasis on living in natural environment, the designer integrates in this project the most fundamental elements such as sun, air, water, etc., the design bringing back the building to its most original and primitive condition.
After coming inside, we can see a dark space composed of the brown wooden wall veneers, wooden floors, marbles, and grey mirrors. The designer creates a calm and warm interior atmosphere by ingeniously contrasting the inner and outer space.

Project Need

The designer made a large construction model at the center of the interior space, a signal presenting the theme of the reception center and the visual concentration of the whole space.

Design Challenge

The exterior design strengthens the connection between the inner and outer space by using a number of long windows. The most pure color, white, is used for the main color in the whole architectures that in the meantime corresponds to the relationship between the building the environment. The curvature design, in the middle of the façade, highlights the square area formed by eaves. With the vertical lines, the arc walls extend to both sides, the design strengthening the idea that the young people are the main buyers in this case.

Sustainability

Different from the public area which is designed for a cold style by using rocks, concrete and mirrors, the bedroom is designed into a space furnished with black and white, a number of timbers, and wooden veneers that make the space a sense of warm humanity. In the meantime, the stretch fabric walls, irregular lines segments, and trapezoid closets, generate more possibilities beyond imaginations.




Open to all international projects this award celebrates innovative and creative building interiors, with consideration given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes, aesthetic presentation and functionality. Consideration also given to space allocation, traffic flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.  


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