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Warm honey-toned timber panels rise vertically through a double-height interior space in CHEN SHIH HAN's Study Reading Environment, establishing an architectural rhythm that evokes the undulating…
Pale blonde wood shelving constructs a gentle orthogonal grid occupying the left foreground, its horizontal members extending rhythmically at regular intervals to create a luminous display armature…
A restrained palette of pale birch and refined white establishes the compositional foundation of CHEN SHIH HAN's Study Reading Environment, where architectural elements and custom furnishings…
Warm natural wood tones dominate CHEN SHIH HAN's Study Reading Environment, establishing an immediate tactile and chromatic foundation through pale ash or birch surfaces that span flooring…
Study Reading Environment by CHEN SHIH HAN establishes a serene residential interior where powder blue millwork architecture defines the spatial character through a series of arched alcoves…

Silver Interior · 2025

Study Reading Environment

by Shih Han Chen

  • Silver A' Design Award 2025 in Interior
  • CLIENT: Thinking Design
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 20,378
  • Verification code 464570BD05 · Verify this award
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About Study Reading Environment

Study is an interior design for a six floor reading space in Taiwan, covering 496 square feet. The project applies the idea of home to every level, so each floor offers a different feeling. The first floor holds the main reading area, where a stepped platform suits children. A tall book wall emphasizes the high ceiling. The mezzanine combines reading, meeting and dining functions. The second floor is a study with a book wall, a glass display case and a fireplace. Transparent glass connects the levels, while soft gray blue tones and light wood veneer create a calm atmosphere.

About the Silver A' Design Award

Study Reading Environment is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Study Reading Environment is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Study Reading Environment is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Unique Properties
Because it is a multi-storey business space, I hope that each floor will be injected with different spatial expressions so that consumers can have different feelings when using it. The design is centered on the concept of "home", so that people on different floors can feel the warmth brought by home. Warmth. Different floors also combine different business methods.
Dimensions & Packaging
Six floors / 496 square feet
Tags
Interior architects, Bookstore, Kitchen, Bedroom, Children, Study
Production Technology
The project is as simple as possible, and expresses a variety of design vocabulary through the repeated application of the same material, which is similar to the role played by gray and blue in this case, whether as the main color or as an accent color, the appearance of gray and blue creates a connection, and then leads to the vertical floor relationship.
Design Challenge
The challenge of this case is how to depict the different spatial representations of each floor, and at the same time tie up the coherence of the vertical floors, so as to give a complete and harmonious situational experience.
Research
In the face of different space requirements, this time it is not only necessary to take into account the flow of people, the relationship between reading and dining areas, but also across the setting of offices and private residences, and check the functions of each aspect, she said, the comfortable and relaxed atmosphere is the main axis of the relationship between floors, so paying attention to light, ventilation, and leaving white space at the right time has become the key to this case.
Inspiration
Use curved extensions to create cabinets and raised floors with different functions. Soft gray blue and light wood veneer lead into an ocean-like reading space.
Project Duration
The project started in June 2023 in Taiwan and finished in December 2023 in Taiwan.
Operation Flow
The main business space is mainly on the first floor and the mezzanine, and transparent glass is used to give people in different spaces the opportunity to connect and interact.
Image Credits
Photographer: Hey!Cheese~

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