2023 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Pioneer Residence

Entrant Company

Akon Tang

Category

Interior Design - Residential 

Client's Name

Byron Cai

Country / Region

China

The entire residential interior structure is exposed and without excessive decoration, using a consistent main color scheme from public spaces to private spaces, with the aim of redefining the existing space within the residence through cohesion and simplification. This case introduces primitive geometric shapes to reflect the natural landscape, thereby creating a circular and open living space.

The living room, dining room, kitchen, and cloakroom are cut into open and transparent areas. From the casual open area to the resting bedroom area, we implant a "box" bathtub area to connect and balance the "dynamic" and "static" relationships. The implantation of the box body has both excessive effects and interesting hidden designs. From a flat perspective, the bathtub area spans diagonally between the master bedroom and the cloakroom, with side channels not only leading directly to the master bedroom, but also a hidden work and study room designed at the corner, providing the owner with a unique space within the framework of modern urban architecture. When choosing a bathtub, taking the owner's preferences into account, we ultimately chose a blue transparent acrylic independent bathtub.

There was no suitable dining table for this case, so we planned to create a dining table on site, just like the great architect Louis Kahn's concept of "function changes with form". Its form is suspended on a load-bearing wall, which not only satisfies the dining table function but also divides the kitchen and living room areas. To make the dining table overhang in the space, we weld a steel frame into an "L" shape, fix it on the wall and top, and then wrap it with European pine board. The surface is coated with micro cement, connect the steel frame on the top, and then wrap it with wooden board. At the same time, three circular holes were opened on the side of the dining table, which not only solved the problem of spatial oppression but also met the design theme, introducing original geometric shapes to reflect the natural style of the space.

Credits

Chief Designer
Akon Tang
Assistant Designer
Yadong Zhang
Photographer
Howie Zheng
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