Bronze Interior · 2020
Madam Platinum Residence
by Wen Yin Chen
- Bronze A' Design Award 2020 in Interior
- CLIENT: Shiang Chi Interior Design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 8,800
- Verification code C6A6001981 · Verify this award
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About Madam Platinum Residence
Madam Platinum is a residential interior design created for a retired couple in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. The home covers about 93 square meters and contains a living room, a dining area, a kitchen, a study, three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Safety features are integrated into the interior so that they remain visually discreet. A wall-like partition defines an independent entrance area with storage, and a long bench extends from the dining area for putting on and taking off shoes. Structural columns are softened by lighting strips, chamfers and decorative items.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Madam Platinum Residence is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Madam Platinum Residence is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Madam Platinum Residence splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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- Unique Properties
- This project was a tailor made senior home for the retired client, and the design team set out to deliver the creative concept of comfortable yet tasteful residence with modern aesthetics making all preventive facilities invisible, hence giving the inhabitants a comfortable life while the interior has become a favorite gathering space among families and children of different generations.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The interior design area is approximately 93 square meters, comprised of living room, dining area, kitchen, study and 3 bedrooms with 2 bathrooms.
- Tags
- Elegance, Senior Home, Home Safety, Residential Design
- Production Technology
- Masonry Materials, Tiles, Nano Stone, Wall Fabric, Metal Work, and Silicone
- Design Challenge
- As the male and female clients have different expectations in spatial planning and styling, apart from installing safety facilities in the interior environment which was also made aesthetically pleasant. In order to create unconventional senior retirement home, the design team spent over one year in studying the changes faced by senior citizens in everyday life and psychologically, before translating those considerations into design details, in the name of a safe and lively senior home.
- Research
- Elegant posture and serene mindset epitomize the outward appearance of the interior, as well as the characteristics of, and personal expectation of the future by, the client. Throughout this project, every need of the client was reviewed, and environmentally friendly building materials were utilized in constructing elegant aesthetic visual, and satisfying the basic conditions of happy and healthy living.
- Inspiration
- In the face of global problem of aging population, Taiwan is no exception. As the client was facing a new stage of life, the residence design should not just consider all the facilities needed for future senior life, ensuring their safe and practical usage, but also manifesting the unique freedom and vitality of this age group, in contrast to the stereotypical visual perception of senior home.
- Project Duration
- The project was finished in December, 2018 in Hsinchu City, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- With wall-like partitioning technique demarcating an independent entrance area, which also provided storage functions, along with a whole row of extended bench seating from the dining area for putting on and off shoes that are also of storage function. The originally oppressive structural columns were complemented by lighting strips, chamfer and decorative items, and have become visually pleasant.
- Image Credits
- Image #1 : CCH IMAGE STUDIO, 2018
Image #2 : CCH IMAGE STUDIO, 2018
Image #3 : CCH IMAGE STUDIO, 2018
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Image #5 : CCH IMAGE STUDIO, 2018
