Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2020
Hide and Climb Residence
- A' Design Award 2020 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: Happystudio
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 35,386
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About Hide and Climb Residence
Hide and Climb is a residential interior design covering 110 square meters in Taipei, Taiwan. The home combines rock climbing with spaces for working, learning, reading and playing, while keeping traditional areas such as the kitchen, dining space and bedrooms. A tree house form is used as the central icon, and the organic shape of the climbing wall is repeated across the plan. Birch plywood is the main material. The layout can change over time, as the tree house is planned to become a wardrobe when the two children grow older.
Happystudio's Hide and Climb Residence represents a compelling contribution to contemporary residential design discourse, demonstrating how thoughtful architectural intervention can transform domestic interiors into environments that nurture physical development, imaginative exploration, and familial connection. The work emerges from a tradition of child-centered design thinking that gained momentum throughout the twentieth century, informed by pedagogical philosophies emphasizing movement, sensory engagement, and self-directed discovery as essential components of developmental wellbeing. The designers have achieved a remarkable synthesis of formal sophistication and functional purpose, deploying faceted geometric volumes clad in uniformly finished birch plywood to create an interior climbing landscape that reads simultaneously as sculptural installation and practical play equipment. The chromatic restraint of the honey-toned wood establishes visual calm while the strategically distributed climbing holds introduce measured chromatic vivacity, their varied hues suggesting both playfulness and wayfinding utility. Technical accomplishment manifests in the precise joinery of angled panels, the seamless integration of the elevated platform with its storage infrastructure, and the calibrated relationship between the climbing structure and its architectural context. The clerestory window demonstrates sophisticated environmental thinking, admitting natural illumination while maintaining the enclosure's sense of protective intimacy. Thematically, the work explores tensions between shelter and adventure, containment and liberation, domestic comfort and physical challenge, suggesting that contemporary dwelling might embrace rather than suppress children's inherent drive toward vertical exploration and spatial mastery. The integration of book storage beneath the climbing platform proposes meaningful adjacency between intellectual and physical pursuits. Viewers might contemplate how such spatial interventions reshape family ritual and daily rhythm, inviting consideration of architecture's capacity to foster wellbeing through movement and play.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Not only is the rock climbing included in this project, but also other activities like working, learning, reading and playing to maximize its flexibility, while maintaining the traditional functions: kitchen,dinning and bedrooms.
No matter how evolving, the essence of home remains the same, a warm and cozy place. This is also the reason why we chose a tree house as an icon, though there is no smoke coming out if its chimney. - Dimensions & Packaging
- 110 square meters.
- Tags
- Transform Living, In house, New Generation Residence
- Production Technology
- The main material is birch plywood.
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult part is how to design sports facilities that meet the needs and can be combined with space. In order to achieve this goal, in addition to matching materials and colors, and extending the organic shape of the climbing wall, the pattern of the entire space is unified.
- Project Duration
- The project spent 3 months for design and 6 months for construction, completed in 2019 summer in Taipei, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- In addition, we tried to put timeline into consideration: Space may adjust according to the child’s growth. The design of a tree house echoes the idea of climbing, also reserving abundant room for two kids to play for the time being. Several years later, the tree house will become the wardrobe, and the teenagers will own their own rooms respectively.
- Research
- Climbing can help children with different developments from many aspects.
Climbing activities require the coordinated operation of all parts of the body, the comprehensive cooperation of hands, feet, eyes and body. Children's mastering of climbing techniques can promote physical coordination and make them more flexible and responsive. Whenever a child climbs to a new place, it brings a new sense and body face to the child's vision, which helps to cultivate the child's space concept. Therefore, climbing can not only practice motor skills, promote physical development, but also explore the environment. Moreover, during the climbing process, the children will have a lot of fun, so they will find it very interesting to climb up from the ground and practice repeatedly.
It is from children's repeated attempts that they gradually overcome difficulties, accumulate face, and improve their skills. Brave and confident will not come out freely. It is in children's repeated attempts to train themselves and cultivate the spirit of fear and toughness lays the foundation for their personal struggle spirit when they grow up. - Inspiration
- Cities have been expanding for centuries and the population increases dramatically. Along with great changes caused by the highly developed internet services and threats of the latest infectious diseases, the dwelling has to evolve.
All the traditional function defined by its activities, like an office, school, library, playground, track and field, restaurant etc., will connect like clouds and shrink like a mini-world. Therefore, a residence will interact with the desire of its tenants, acting like a treasure box. - Image Credits
- Copyrights belong to Happystudio,2019
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