Iron Interior · 2023
Ink Highlight Residential
- A' Design Award 2023 in Interior
- CLIENT: Kan Shih Ming
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 9,141
- Verification code 001FAA7D5D · Verify this award
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About Ink Highlight Residential
Ink Highlight is a residential interior design for an urban home of 150 square meters in Taiwan. The layout places function first, and no boundary is set between the dining room and the living room, so family members can gather easily in a spacious public area. One large unit serves as a dining table, a center island and a bar. Its surface uses Italian thin tiles with ink patterns, which are continued in the beige stone television wall and in natural pattern wallpapers. Corner beams and columns are repurposed as cabinets and storage.
About the A' Design Award
Ink Highlight Residential is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Ink Highlight Residential is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Ink Highlight Residential is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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- Unique Properties
- For this standard urban modern house, the design concept places an emphasis on optimal space distribution for family interaction and cohesion, allowing family members to gather easily and comfortably. Function is first, and then the aesthetics is carefully considered to balance the spatial needs and visual enjoyment of the owner.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 150 square meters
- Tags
- Ink highlight, Silent White, Residential, Daylight, Ink
- Production Technology
- The main vision is the "Italian thin tiles" with ink patterns on the dining table panel. The ink patterns are continued with the beige stone TV wall, and the natural pattern wallpapers are used to maintain the overall consistency.
- Design Challenge
- The original structure has a layout made up of beams and columns at the corners, such as the porch, kitchen entrance, windowsills and bed board area in the rooms. These irregular structures are rearranged to accommodate shoe cabinets in the porch, storage cabinets in the kitchen, a circuit box for the air conditioner, a partition for the walk-in closet, and a bedside cabinet. By repurposing the corner spaces, efficient distribution is achieved and spatial shortcoming is avoided.
- Research
- The public domain is the soul of the space. No boundary is set between the dining room and the living room in order to give the room a spacious impression while maintaining all the daily living functions. To highlight a visual proportion of weights, the color palette is centered on white and embellished by different greys. Some warmth from wood materials balance the sharpness of the black and grey tones. Materials such as the metal lights and the ceiling rendering belt, are drawn to enliven the modern space.
- Inspiration
- Through the balcony windows, daylight leaks into the room, its brightness undulating with the passage of day. This daylight adds a smooth white haze to the space, and the dimness of the living room is like light grey ink fading into the air, layering the depth of color harmony.
- Project Duration
- Construction: 2021.08
Completion: 2021.09,Taiwan - Operation Flow
- The design focus of the public domain is a large functional complex serving as a dining table, a center island, and a bar. In terms of visual layout, the entire surface of the large dining table is made of a splash-ink-landscape Italian marble board that is parallel to the corresponding ceiling beams which are covered with black mirrors. The splash-ink-landscape texture extends from the surface to the L-shaped table legs on the side. It elevates the experience of the entire public domain.
- Patents
- KAN SHIH MING,2019
- Image Credits
- Photographer： Blake Wang
