'Calm Black' by Yuan Qi Lu: Innovation in Residence

Calm Black

Residence for QY INTERIOR DESIGN STUDIO

This four-story house is 99 square meters, which is located in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The house is based on black, grey, and white tone, with the material, line, and modelling interspersing and changing, echoing the modern charm of spaces with each other. The designer makes the public area not just a family leisure space, but more with the display function, so that the home is as an art gallery in life style, and the owner's personal favorites would become the exhibits.

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Unique Properties

The deigner make the space fashionable but not icy or sharp. In the public space, the concrete and iron pieces with different materials, show a gradual color spectrum,and the curved wall surfaces and cambered black lines on the edge of ceiling. The designer creates a titanium plating metal coated structure of arch model above the dining table, and the bold modelling as cabin, not only separates the different spaces and also weakens the sense of presence of beam ably

Production Technology

The designer gently delimits the different functions of public space in an introverted way. The gray cultured stone paved entryway metope defines the space theme. The designer elevates the study floor designedly, and places a parapet made of quartz stone material with meticulous black grain in the white background; through the height difference and low stone wall, the space is apart but not blocked. To enlarge the space vision, the designer replaces the traditional bookcase with the simple black iron pieces.

Design Challenge

How to modify the abrupt beam in the interior of the space and meet the owners' preference for modern style is the key task of the designer. For this purpose, the designer adopts multiple materials interspersed, arc ceiling outline and line edge, and arch modelling, to decorate the heavy beam column in public area and daughter room, and pour the exquisite feeling for modern space's fundamental tone at the same time.

Project Duration

The project located in New Taipei City.

Operation Flow

According to the use demand of two generations, and to make the 99-square-meter space more open, the designer gets through the original independent kitchen space, and through the bar counter design, to make a semi-open kitchen that cleverly connects with the living room, study, and dining table, so that the family members can interact with each other easily even if being in different areas. In the living room and study area, respectively through the marble TV wall with storage and display function, and iron shelf with lighting, the designer makes the public area not just a family leisure space, but more with the display function, so that the home is as an art gallery in life style.

Research

Due to the limited space conditions, the designer purposely opens up the original independent kitchen, to create a semi-open kitchen space with a bar table, and makes clever division for the public area through the concrete wall, arch modeling, elevated floor, and quartz stone low wall. As the material, line, and modelling intersperse and change, it is to run through the dimensional theme of " Calm Black ".

Inspiration

In response to the owner's preference of modern style, the designer takes the fundamental tone with three colors of black, grey, and white, interspersed with many kinds of materials as concrete, iron, titanium plating metal, marble, and natural cultured stone, to make fashionable colors showing the exquisite and level, and also to separate the space without obvious trace, to endow flexible functional separation for the space in a way that does not interrupt the spatial continuity.

Project Overview

Calm Black Residence has been a Iron winner in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design award category in the year 2022 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. 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.

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Iron Recognition

Yuan Qi Lu was recognized with the coveted Iron A' Design Award in 2023, a testament to excellence of their work Calm Black Residence.

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