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Meng Chuan Ho Receives the A' Design Award for Spiritual Casa Residence in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Meng Chuan Ho recognized for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Spiritual Casa Residence by Meng Chuan Ho, designed for DHouse Interior Design Co.,Ltd.. The recognition forms part of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
About Spiritual Casa Residence
Spiritual Casa is a residential interior design for a four-story house of 146 square meters in the countryside of Yilan, Taiwan. The design combines Chinese and Spanish traditions. Triangular wooden beams, Spanish tiles and a kitchen island recall Spanish country architecture. Screens, flowering crabapple motifs and antique coin patterns refer to Asian customs. Hand-woven rattan furniture is made by local artisans with mortise and tenon joints. Grey and milk-tea earth tones create a neutral background, and central islands and cabinets keep the circulation open.
About Meng Chuan Ho
Creativity, innovation, and creation – these are the elements of dialogue between "home," "space," and "architecture." In his book, design genius Nendo Sato Oki mentions, "In this age of information overload, perhaps we shouldn't look outward for sources of inspiration. Designs that stem from intrinsic emotions and tactile sensations might be the most important." A good designer is like both a scholar and a paparazzo, always carrying a researcher's curiosity and a gossip seeker's persistence. Before starting any design work, it's crucial to gather information through extensive conversations with users or residents.
Award Record
Meng Chuan Ho is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/164335
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/164335
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!164335
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/359121
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Spiritual Casa Residence
- Function
- Residence
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Dim Gray, Black, Dark Slate Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- DHouse Interior Design Co.,Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Meng Chuan Ho
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #164335
Credits
- Team
- HO MENG CHUAN and LAM TSZ KWAN
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- To blend Chinese and Western cultures, the design incorporates Spain's typical triangular wooden beams, a ceiling, an island bar, and Spanish tile accents. Chinese elements like screens, flowering crabapple, and antique coin motifs subtly highlight traditional Asian customs. Hand-woven rattan furniture, crafted by local artisans using mortise and tenon joints, showcases exquisite local craftsmanship.
- Inspiration
- The four-story house in the countryside of Yilan, Taiwan, owned by a Spanish and Taiwanese couple. The overall spatial structure and intricate details pay homage to Chinese and Spanish traditions, based on a deep affection for the native land. The triangular roof, Spanish tiles, screen and Chinese totem are arranged to integrate Eastern and Western cultures, attempting to trigger memories through material texture, touch and color, and connect the feelings of people and land, people and hometown.
- Research
- How to delicately integrate Eastern and Western elements has become an important key to the space. Therefore, the grey and milk-tea earth colors are used to establish a neutral spatial tone, and then restoring the Spanish architectural structure, the local traditional tiles and bright colors remind of the Spanish country house. While the Chinese elements are cleverly hidden in the ceiling and screen totem, with rattan plaited articles and embossed glass, showing the Chinese retro feelings.
- Challenge
- Because the first floor was blocked by T girder, beam and stairs, the horizontal space is cut, and once the mechanical and electrical equipment is hidden in the ceiling, the vertical space is also easy to become compressed. Therefore, in accordance with the existing beam position, the triangular roof is arranged in the kitchen ceiling to raise the view and restore the Spanish architectural structure. The living room uses the Chinese circular arc element to create the ceiling, outlining a soft spatial line, but also taking into account the needs of air conditioning. As for the entryway, the space is defined by a square ceiling.
- Realization and Technology
- The totem on the tiles specially chooses the ancient Chinese coin pattern to imply the lucky meaning of opening the door and seeing money. The kitchen, with its square middle island, Spanish tiles and triangular roof, highlights the Spanish design elements and spirit, satisfying the homeowner's feeling of homesickness. The natural hollow rattan has the effect of ventilation and moisture drainage, and also echoes with the crabapple flower glass and lamp string on the curved wall to reproduce the retro charm of Taiwan in the 1960s.
- Operation and Interaction
- To make the sight and moving line smoother, the entryway uses glass tiles and low cabinets to divide the kitchen and living room, maintaining the sense of openness of the space. In the kitchen, the middle island is placed in the center, to form the hollow-square moving line, to walk more smoothly. As for the master bedroom, the same design is continued, with the chest of drawers in the center and the aisle on two sides, which is convenient to shuttle back and forth between the sleeping and storage areas without hindrance. The cabinet also deliberately uses an even table top, which can block the sight of the messy desktop and maintain a simple and neat space.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2023 and finished in April 2023 in Taiwan.
- Specifications
- This is a 146 sqm, 4-story residence.
- Keywords
- D HOUSE, Interior Design, Interior, Taiwan, Recidence
