Project Overview
This case is a 20-year-old apartment with an elevator, about 83 square meters large. It was initially two small rooms with two small rooms. The layout was reorganized and re-arranged during the renovation process to solve the lighting problem and meet the living space's functional needs.
Project Commissioner
Project Creator
Team
The lead designer: LI JIA-YU
Team member: LI CHIA-YEN
Project Brief
After entering the house from the porch, the open kitchen with the original partition is removed. Whether you enter the living room or the kitchen, the moving line and visual fluency are entirely different; the dining and kitchen table and bar can also be used as the back of the sofa. The wall is not only a space that can be shared but also a subtle field division; the white system is the central axis of the environment, which sets off the penetrating brightness of the space and the simple yet classic furniture.
The original partition wall on one side of the living room was removed and replaced with floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors. Natural light penetrated directly from the lighting surface to the living room and kitchen. The movable black iron frame glass sliding doors were used as flexible partitions for the study and multi-functional space. Continuing the simple and neat visual style, it also uses the same colour wooden floor to extend and magnify the space vision while weakening the space division.
Project Innovation/Need
Although it has the structure of the original beam and column, with the advantage of lighting and the white theme, the desk, the display storage cabinets and the low cabinet-type bed near the window are integrated into a highly functional and flexible living space. The whole storage cabinet wall is covered with mirror door panels, and the room is doubled and brightened by reflection.
A small dressing room is added to the master bedroom with the balcony pushed out. The ingenious design uses the wardrobe as the partition wall between the dressing room and the bedroom, which becomes the bedside's backboard. The cabinet is reinforced with an H-shaped steel frame, and some hollows are retained to allow light and airflow, making it a multi-purpose bedside storage space with increased visual layers and fun.
The bathroom refrains the simple and natural style. It adopts high-chroma railway bricks so that the most inconspicuous toilet outlines a whimsical space with unrestrained activities due to its interlaced colours.
Design Challenge
The overall design optimizes the perfect integration of lighting and living functions. The moving line planning guides the details of the space reconstruction, and the selection and matching of the structure and surface materials seem simple but not easy, like the beauty of jade, which is classic and intriguing.
Sustainability
The original partition wall on one side of the living room was removed and replaced with floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors. Natural light penetrated directly from the lighting surface to the living room and kitchen. The movable black iron frame glass sliding doors were used as flexible partitions for the study and multi-functional space.
Interior Design - International Residential - Compact
This award celebrates innovative and creative building interiors with consideration given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes and aesthetic presentation. Consideration also given to space allocation, traffic flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.
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