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Live in Letters Residence by Chia Ling Sun
Live in Letters Residence by Chia Ling Sun
Live in Letters Residence by Chia Ling Sun
Live in Letters Residence by Chia Ling Sun
Live in Letters Residence by Chia Ling Sun

Iron Interior · 2020

Live in Letters Residence

by Chia Ling Sun

  • A' Design Award 2020 in Interior
  • CLIENT: ADC space design
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 6,024
  • Verification code C1229535D2 · Verify this award
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About Live in Letters Residence

Live in Letters is a residential interior design in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. The 146.6 square metre home was created for a client with large book storage needs and a preference for black-based space. A large black book wall is built with iron and steel frames, layered with wood grain veneer and wooden shelves. The entrance sidewall is finished with Italian fresco stucco paint applied in random brush strokes. An irregular sofa, an amorphous television wall, an extra-long dining table for eight and a complete dressing room shape the layout.

About the A' Design Award

Live in Letters Residence 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. Live in Letters Residence 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. Live in Letters Residence 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
Succinct modern style suited cultural people with taste. Black-based space is trendy and full of delicate sense of a gallery. Irregular configuration of an unruly living room sofa and an amorphous TV wall shows uniqueness of the black, white and grey coloured space with light boxes and iron pieces just like the modern innovative Co-working Space with comfortable freestyle. Extra-long dining table for 8 people, equipped with complete set dressing room, make people feel a luxurious stay.
Dimensions & Packaging
The space area is 146.6m2, an irregular configuration of the living room sofa, amorphous TV wall, the extra-long dining table for 8 people, and complete set of the dressing room, make the living scale of 146,6 m2 psychologically very comfortable. Among them, the massive book wall frame of the living room has been equipped with a disassembled plate, which can be changed into a wall surface for TV wall at any time; the sofa unidirectional two-way one-way can also be adjusted in both directions.
Tags
A Live-in Gallery, Co-working Space, Dark humanistic Fashion, TV Wall, Iron Industrial Style, Artistic Paint, Light Box Design
Production Technology
Entrance sidewall painted with Italian Fresco stucco paint, random brush touch, look trendy and original in black-base space. Massive black book wall is displayed in iron and steel frames, several are layered with wood grain veneer and wood shelf. The wooden material not only look fine and exquisite also gives fresh and warm spatial tone. The open public area has a structural column separates the guest dining hall and the junction, it is designed into a light box, and turned into a space art.
Design Challenge
Industrial style track lamps assembled by design team, lamp holders and strips are welded. Many complicated processes appear beyond team's expectations. To achieve good results, the team aim for the project's meticulous work and execution. Also, the whole space paint construction period is longer than expected, it was major obstacle. The color paint leap design, the layered brush effect, and the texture supervision of the plaster spray facade testing the design team's project control ability.
Research
ADC design team excels at the reinterpretation of space design, and its works are always to meet the design code, with the spirit of Maslow's hierarchy of needs ladder. In this case, the ADC not only satisfies the space requirements of the client, but also emerge the artistic and spiritual nature of space and achieves the self-realization of space.
Inspiration
Starting from large book storage demand of single male client, and preference for black-base space, the style and tone of the case were developed and constructed. Architect Tadao Ando pointed out: Hidden in the field of vision will awaken creativity. The design prototype was designed from the reference of bookstore design, gradually create this unpredictable, simple yet original "Co-working Space Sense" a distinctive space.
Project Duration
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan in 2019
Operation Flow
After entering the complete set of the dressing room, the iron hanger on the right side of the entrance has a push-pull function, high storage capacity, easy to operate, iron design, also suitable proportion for sharing cabinet, make space looks lighter and modern. Together with the right-side wall surface build geometric totem streamlined that create a visual center core, and it is a special and unique combination with other materials.

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