Iron Interior · 2024
Time Capsule Residential
by Lee Chi Yuan
- A' Design Award 2024 in Interior
- CLIENT: Senpei Design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 9,207
- Verification code FEEDA8434B · Verify this award
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About Time Capsule Residential
Taking objects as subjects, spatial arrangement is translated into a treasure chest of memories, capturing the passages of history and melding them into the future. Study serves as centerpiece of public space, with semi open corner ports on both sides. Two materials are adopted to produce an opaque and slightly secluded character of the study. A wooden sliding door encloses an extensive collection of bookcases between its opening and closing, enabling viewpoints to travel back and forth between the public areas.
About the A' Design Award
Time Capsule 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. Time Capsule 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. Time Capsule 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
- The study serves as the centerpiece of the public space, with semi-open corner ports on both sides. Two materials are adopted to produce an opaque and slightly secluded character of the study: on one side, see-through glass connects the living room with the dining and kitchen spaces, enabling sunlight to stream freely and guiding the view inside; on the other side, a wooden sliding door encloses an extensive collection of bookcases between its opening and closing, enabling viewpoints to travel back and forth between the public areas. One edge by the window hosts the classic single chair -Finn Juhl FAUTEUIL MODEL 1, a cozy place to enjoy the afternoon sun.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 854 sqft
- Tags
- home, residential, interior, Taiwan, interior design, Taipei, Zen
- Production Technology
- The walls of the public spaces are coated with natural white clay, reminiscent of childhood memories of mud houses with hand-painted lines featuring grained texture, while the weathered cypress window sills correspond to the artistic driftwood plantings on the walls.
- Design Challenge
- Within the carefully designed withered wood shelves, the artistic creations of the daughter are found, mirroring the rigid but soft chased sculptures next to the angled dining room shrine, where the Burmese teak wood platform enshrines a crystal Guanyin Bodhisattva, whose soft illumination scheme evokes a halo of light that seems to levitate, depicting the Bodhisattva's divine charm in a gentle and delicate fashion, a peaceful and serene end view for the mind and body.
- Research
- The study features faux natural tree branches as partitions on the shelves and a Japanese tatami couch adjacent to the window grates, exuding a sense of originality and simplicity throughout the room, precipitating a peaceful retreat for the mind.
- Inspiration
- Incorporating vintage objects, remembrances, and time into the design, the interior is replete with narratives drawn from antique furniture and artworks. The owner maintains a collection of solid wood pieces with historical imprints, such as grand wooden coffee tables, modest and nostalgic needlework boxes, Danish armoires and classically styled furniture, as well as arts and paintings, sculptures and works of art created by his daughter, each containing reminders of a different time and place.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2022 in Taipei and finished in October 2022 in Taipei
- Operation Flow
- Everywhere you look, there are objects that have accompanied you through different stages of your life - objects that will accompany you into the future and continue to compose chapters of your memories.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Lin Fu Ming, 2023
Image #2: Photographer Lin Fu Ming, 2023
Image #3: Photographer Lin Fu Ming, 2023
Image #4: Photographer Lin Fu Ming, 2023
Image #5: Photographer Lin Fu Ming, 2023
