Cozy Essence Residential Townhouse by Megalith Architects is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
BronzeInterior· 2020
Cozy Essence Residential Townhouse
Client: Megalith Architects
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Cozy Essence Residential Townhouse
The design team utilizes the integration of customized elements that exhibit a welcoming environment while interpreting a distinct living philosophy. In line with the team’s beliefs, the design aims to convey the idea of light expression by applying the gradation of sunlight that reflects the wood and low-saturation wall colors. The photographer team who spent almost a day in the house stated that the design optimizes visual experience by using different materials, textures, and colors that align with the original goal of providing an elegant vibe to space and bring comfort to the users.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Cozy Essence Residential Townhouse is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Cozy Essence Residential Townhouse is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Cozy Essence Residential Townhouse splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main principle behind the design project is "coziness," which the designer tried to indicate by integrating elements of forms, lights, colors, and texture. The interior design is inspired by the cozy vibe and slow-paced lifestyle of Tainan City itself.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main focus of this work is to provide a sense of comfort when the users enter the interior space. In order to achieve this goal, the design team focuses on every detail and considers every element repeatedly and thoroughly.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
The future plans would be to use this winning opportunity as motivation and come up with other better designs, sharing the best living experience with those who share the same living philosophy as us.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This project aims to convey the concept of vivid light expression by utilizing the gradation of sunlight that reflects the warmness of wood materials and low-saturation wall cladding colors, to optimize visual experience by using various glasses to generate a sense of solid and void that aligns with the idea of transparent space division, to re-shape the interior facade by employing overlapping shelves and to provide an elegant vibe by engaging all elements regarding light, colors, and texture.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- This is a total of 378.38 sq m 5-story townhouse with 3 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, an open kitchen, a dining area, and a living room, including lounges with floor-to-ceiling windows to add light into the interior space.
- Tags
- Townhouse, Interior Design
- Production Technology
- The overall design of this project adopts a material palette including marble slate, solid wood, and various matte wall cladding to organize plenty of storage spaces and to display exquisite interior facade finishes. Additionally, the use of figured glass, black tinted glass, and metal parts in the details add pigment to the final assembly.
- Design Challenge
- In order to conform to the concept of a neat visual style and utilize colors and materials as mediums to enhance the living experience, the construction primarily focuses on the details that emphasize the exact line expressions and underlying materials characteristics. Several re-assemble processes were inevitable to ensure project quality and rationality.
- Research
- Prelude to the design development, the team studied the building base of this project and discovered that this long, rectangular shape building base could be traced back to the long street house in Taiwan. The long street houses were a unique housing union typology built alongside commercial canals with two sides of open windows and doors where people conducted commercial activities, and the main family living area was based on the second floor. Therefore, in this project, the design team challenges to design that pays tribute to the implication of old history in Tainan by applying this unique methodology to only use two sides of open windows to develop this project.
- Inspiration
- Owing to the environment of southern Taiwan, Tainan, where daylight is sufficient and adequate, this townhouse project focuses on bringing the daylight in and providing the best lighting for the interior spaces. Under the premise of designing a customized townhouse for a family of 4, the designer focused on finding the optimal solution to make the utmost use of this long, rectangular building shape while engaging all the living habits of a Taiwanese family.
- Project Duration
- The project finished in July, 2019, located in Tainan City, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- Due to the engagement of natural sunlight and interior lighting flow displaying on the facade, it provides a cozy area and opens up a complete space from outside to the inside on the second floor including the balcony, living room, dining area, and kitchen space. The linear living space contains different daily use functions yet connects all living habits and interactions of a family.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Megalith Architects, 2019.
- Team Members
- Principal Designer/ Creative Director: Leo Pan
Principal Architect: Jas Huang
Creative Director: Stev Wu
Project Manager: Mavis Fu
Designer: Scarlett Hung, Rainy Luo, Wei Huang
Assistant Designer: Hazel Hsieh - Image Credits
- Image #1-5: Photographer PoNien, Liu, Mooten Studio, 2019.
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