Silver Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2024
Secret Land Private Reception House
by Tien Wan Li
- A' Design Award 2024 Silver Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2024
- CLIENT: Moore Design
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About Secret Land Private Reception House
Secret Land is a private reception house in Taiwan, designed as a place for the owner to meet friends, watch ball games and taste wine. The plan is fully open, with the kitchen, living room and dining room set in equal proportions to form a triangular circulation path. Sight lines meet across the three areas, so conversation stays easy from any point. Cast iron is used for the screen, display shelf and display cabinet, and its natural rust gives a raw appearance. A warm wood dining table and an olive green sofa balance the cool gray tones.
Li Tien Wen's Secret Land Private Reception House exemplifies a distinguished approach to contemporary residential interior design that harmonizes industrial material vocabulary with organic warmth through masterful spatial choreography and chromatic restraint. The work emerges from a tradition of material-forward minimalism that celebrates the inherent beauty of construction substances while orchestrating them into environments of profound atmospheric resonance. The designer demonstrates exceptional sensitivity to the phenomenology of domestic space, employing concrete, timber, glass, and textile in a carefully calibrated hierarchy that privileges tactile authenticity over applied decoration. The translucent glass block partition functions as both spatial divider and luminous sculpture, its amber tonality suggesting the warmth of preserved light while maintaining visual connection between functional zones. Particularly noteworthy is the chromatic strategy that deploys the olive-green sofa as a vegetative anchor within the mineral palette, its organic form and color evoking natural growth against architectural permanence. The floating shelving system against the cement wall creates a composition within the composition, its carefully arranged objects suggesting the curatorial sensibility of a private collection displayed with museum precision. Technical accomplishment appears in the seamless integration of lighting systems, where linear illumination within joinery creates focused theatrical moments while ambient sources maintain overall spatial legibility. The live-edge dining table introduces biomorphic gesture into the otherwise rectilinear geometry, its natural edge preserving the memory of the tree from which it originated. This interior invites contemplation of how contemporary dwelling might honor material truth while creating spaces of genuine comfort and visual sophistication, prompting viewers to consider how architecture shapes not merely physical occupation but emotional and psychological inhabitation of domestic space.
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- Unique Properties
- The arrangement of moving line after entering the house takes "gathering" as the main axis, whose pattern adopts the design of whole open public domain. The proportion of the kitchen, living room and dining room is arranged equally, forming a triangular moving line. Kitchen, living room and dining room look at each other, so that the moving line and the line of sight naturally converge, with no dead angle during party communication.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The biggest feature of this case is the use of cast iron material for screen, display shelf, and display cabinet space, with natural weathered rust to make the space full of primitive beauty, so that such natural corrosion and the change of exhibits accompany the residents to witness the appearance of life.
- Tags
- Interior, Interior Design, Residential, Taiwan, Moore Design
- Production Technology
- As soon as entering the door, what you see is a glass brick screen, which seems to cover the interior space. Close the door and turn around, get rid of the noise outside the door, as if walking into another realm, which not only balances the space color but also remove the saying of open door to see stove in Fengshui. 235The warm wood dining table in dining room, the low-back olive arc sofa in living room, the dim indirect light source, and the increasingly deep rust traces of laminate and display cabinets all balance cool and warm colors in the space.
- Design Challenge
- The open cast iron shelf and closed display cabinet provide the male host to collect according to his hobbies of different periods. Without too much processing of cast iron, there is an unique natural corrosion, will be different with the display of objects, with the male host witness the outline of years.
- Project Duration
- The project started in November 2022 and finished in January 2023 in Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- This case is a private reception house of the male host, which is convenient for watching ball games and wine gathering with three or five friends. It is also a secret base for the male host to place his personal collectibles. A fully open public area, with the same proportion of guest, dining and kitchen in series, together with the color and highly appropriate furniture arrangement, provides a high level of interaction for actual communication of the moving line or sight line.
- Research
- The original three rooms are adjusted into two simple rooms to provide temporary rest needs and meet the male host’s expectation for a secret base. The use of color and material of walls, floors and interior roofs is mainly based on cool colors such as gray, cement, concrete, cast iron and dark wood. Therefore, designers use a large volume to balance the cool and masculine tonality of the space in each main space, such as use tea-colored glass brick screen to separate kitchen and porch; olive green curved low-back sofa brings childlike charm and warmth to the living room.
- Inspiration
- This case is an exclusive rest place of the male host, with three or five friends, watching the ball game, tasting wine together, a "big boys" exclusive space. Without too much decoration, and with the least processing, natural materials, the space returns to the original and nature, in order to facilitate friends to meet, the moving line is zero dead angle of full open pattern.
- Image Credits
- Moore Design