Villa Homespun Philosophy

Villa Homespun Philosophy is a high-end project of China Railway Construction Real Estate. The project is only six meters away from the Humble Administrator’s Garden in Suzhou, a World Heritage Site featuring miniature landscapes and abundant waterscapes. Accordingly, the architecture responds to the history and culture of Suzhou with a garden-like villa with two floors aboveground and underground respectively.

Therefore, T.K.Chu Design paid tr ibute to the Chinese traditional garden culture. The sinuous curves of the inner space mean to create a dreamscape, reminding us of the nature and the spirit of literati gardens.

At the entrance, a shallow pool echoes the pond view of the courtyard and also the large-scale waterscape of the Humble Administrator's Garden. Above the pool, a piece of modern-version Taihu stone created floats, which is collaborated with Liu Feng. The artwork expresses the iconic Chinese garden styles with modern materials and sensibility. Surrounded by French windows, the interior and exterior of the ground floor are related.

The overall tone of the interior space is white, the typical color of Suzhou. The bright colors of some furniture and decorations were used to vitalize the whole space. As the symbol of the Humble Administrator's Garden, water was abstracted as a sort of design prototype, which inspires the design of stainless-steel corrugated plates, water-shaped ceilings and other decorations.Two sunken courtyards were created, lighting up the two-floor underground space. From a cloud-shaped indoor balcony of the private gallery on the 1st basement level, residents can see an entertainment room on the 2nd basement floor. The clouds, mountains, stone, deer-shaped sculpture were well-arranged to form a miniature world so that residents acquire the living aesthetics of enjoying nature without leaving home.

The design methodology has been nurtured by traditional Chinese gardens, in which concrete and abstract generate from each other by miniaturizing natural landscapes into private gardens by metaphor.

Design is not an enemy of originality. T.K.Chu Design started from history, culture and architecture, and manifested the project context in colors, shapes, materials and objects, providing a contemporary villa with a profound cultural background.