DESIGN NAME: My Smoking Jackets
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Residential House
INSPIRATION: A concept of volume stacking for a small horizontal hexahedron is adopted to show the working area, living area and public area.The main volume is the raised area of the living room, which also serves as a buffer between the working area and the living area to combine the aisles and stairs. Moreover, the main volume allows all natural light to be dispersed to the work area, living room, kitchen and dining room, using a great deal of indoor glass and gray mirrors to enlarge the space visually.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A residential house is designed for fashion designer's home. Loft style is used to combine studio working area with apartment, using a half penetrating space design to separate public and private areas. The main space of a hall design, combining the living room and indoor balcony, the natural light is more permeable, also the visual effect of amplifying space. This composite space allows to allocate their living areas according to working hours, and to give life and work with a flexible using.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The project, named My Somking Jackets, is designed for a start-up fashion design studio, where the owner wants to present his courage for creating the business. The combination space presents for working and family. All the space functions are embedded not only for work but also for a dream. This project performed a fashion space for Smoking Jackets and comfortable space for a family. Dad works for the family.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project is finished in Dec. 2017 in New Taipei City, Taiwan
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The combination space embedded by a public area for Studio working area and a private area for family. The basic materials include eco friendly paint, gray glass, gray mirror, wood veneer treated by steel brushing, quartz tile, steel stair. The project was realized in the end of 2017.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The use a large number of indoor glass and gray mirrors combines the overall black, white, and gray cool colors to give full play to the consistency of the spatial color. A sense of oppression. The working area is partially gray and blue to show the professional sense of the studio. The small space as less 90m square includes Entrance area, 1 working area as studio & desk, fitting area, 1 living room, 1 main bedroom, 1 kids room, kitchen, dinning room and 2 bathrooms, etc.
TAGS: LOFT, Small space, Residential house, Studio, Smoking Jackets, Mezzanine
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Multiple volumes stack into a small space using a cross visual direction to enlarge a space. All outside light and air ventilation need to be considered into a whole internal space.
CHALLENGE: A very small space as a LOFT to construct all functions for Studio, living room, kitchen, dining room, study room, kids room, bedroom, 2 bathroom based on a stacking concept to realize a combination space.
ADDED DATE: 2021-02-28 15:19:00
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Ya-Jung Yvane HSIEH
IMAGE CREDITS: Ya-Jung Yvane Hsieh, 2020.
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