Best of Villa Space
The interaction of sunlight and space
Designer / Agency
- Fu Xiao
Category
- Villa Space
Award
- 2022 Innovation
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PROJECT
DESCRIPTION
The design objective of this case is to reach a balance between the ideal and the life of the owner.
The owners are young women engaged in the Internet business. They have adopted stray cats, and often rescue stray pets. The family members are two owners and four cats. In their spare time, they like playing Lego toys and e-sports games. Considering their previous house had very scattered storage space, they asked us to make the storage spaces of the new house both independent and connected.
The building is a 32-story apartment-type new house targeted at improved middle-class users. The owner's home is located on the 2nd floor. The original layout is three bedrooms + one living room + one dining room + two bathrooms + double balconies, totaling 180㎡. The living room and the dining room are arranged horizontally, and there is a long landscape balcony. After a site survey, we found that the building spacing is large, so lighting is not affected by the low floor. Vision is not hindered because of a bottom overhead layer. The house layout is optimized on the basis of the lighting condition, the indoor and outdoor airflow, and the landscape outside the window.
First, an excess bedroom is removed -- the original master bedroom is planned as a more private game room. The redesigned master bedroom is made more interactive with the living room with a glass partition; at the junction with the balcony is arranged a ground platform for leisure, matched with a glass sliding door. The original northbound guest toilet is deleted, and the wall between the smaller bedroom and the guest toilet is pulled down to form a whole open cloakroom.
In order to be energy-saving, environmentally friendly and low-carbon, an interconnected glass partition is designed, not only for maintaining the spatial permeability between the master bedroom and the cloakroom, but also for reducing energy loss when adjusting the temperature with equipment in daily life. The interior layout of the toilet is a big bathtub by the window, an independent shower enclosure, double washstand basins and a toilet & bathroom cabinet. A minibar is designed at the end of the aisle.
Overall, the master bedroom is interconnected with the cloakroom, the living room and the balcony. And gauze curtains or glass sliding doors can be used as partitions when needed. A doughnut-like mobile line is made around the master bedroom, so that, in real life, more interaction can be realized. There is a large blank space left between the living room and the dining room for the cats to act. A cat climber & play area is arranged on the balcony. Besides a wardrobe on a whole wall, an independent small storage room is arranged in the hallway for storing daily articles. The whole space is finally transformed into one bedroom + one living room + one dining room + one toilet + one balcony.
The whole house uses spotlights and floodlights to reduce king lights and enhance simplicity. The door of the master bedroom is relocated to the dining room. An invisible door is made consistent with the stylish color lumps of the dining room, enhancing the wholeness of the living room and the dining room. Considering the eating habits of Chinese people, cooking producing heavy lampblack is arranged in the inner Chinese kitchen, outside which is an open western kitchen. A bar counter and a wine cabinet are added to shape a relaxing atmosphere. When dining or drinking, people can see the scenery outside the window. Humans are brought closer to nature in this way.
Simple black lines run through the whole space of blue and white, decorated with cool gray and warm gray to reconcile the atmospheres of each space. Unconstrained lights run through glasses between spaces to blend the colors.
Furniture and fun designs mainly adopt blue and yellow. The game room uses dark-green lighting. The flawless milky white bathroom and the game room shrouded by neon increase the style of the space.
Designer: Fu Xiao
Fu Xiao, registered senior interior architect, registered senior interior designer, and outstanding designer in China’s decoration industry
Boasting 10 plus years of excellent experience in the industry, he focuses on villa designing and customized designs of private houses. His works are mostly designed in eclecticism, Eastern Zen and neo-art deco styles, presenting distinctive practical design solutions that are customized according to clients’ demands.
In mid-2018, Fu Xiao officially founded Magic Design Space and took the post of Design Director. Magic implies a power to use supernatural forces to make impossible things happen and its pronunciation is similar to “friend” in Japanese. The name of the studio is derived from the expectation—The professional skills and life experience of our designers would impress friendly clients with perfect spatial magic designs.
