Project Overview
The project is a private villa residence in Runze Villa. Designer Gu Hao based the design on the new modernistic style, resonating breath and the rhythm of nature, tracing the origin of life, and sequentially optimizing the meaning of “home” and life.
Project Commissioner
Project Creator
Boloni Home Dcor (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
Team
Boloni Home Dcor (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
Chief designer: Gu Hao
Project Brief
Whilst designing the overall space, the designer strived to keep the design simple and retain white as the main tone, thus allowing space to better integrate with the occupant’s experiences, emotions, thoughts and memories of life, and eventually transform into an ideal place for living.
Bold vertical lines outline beautiful structure of the building itself, and expanded functional areas, blanks and colors of black, white and grey, serve as a foil for the furniture and art works in the house.
Elements of nature are extracted, manually simplified and abstracted, integrating with the nature after calculated arrangement. For instance, the matte grey seems like the color of stones, whilst the wood-colored floorings, wardrobes and bookcases symbolize trees in the nature. To interpret the needs of the occupant in artistic manner is the essence of interior design.
The space is decorated with natural elements and adopts lighting to perfect the design, eventually making all the elements stay in harmony. In addition, different materials add more interesting elements into the space, bringing extraordinary experience with unique visual effects.
The space with an inner temperament of “home”
For the master bedroom, the designer utilized deep purple bedding as the main color tone to present a tranquil ambience, and added other colors to decorate the space, which seems like an absent-minded action but actually interprets the designer’s good intention.
Project Need
Partition walls in the living room are based on organic model and the suspended ceiling resembles the extension of cells, all of them tracing the origin of life.
Elements of nature are extracted, manually simplified and abstracted, integrating with the nature after calculated arrangement. For instance, the matte grey seems like the color of stones, whilst the wood-colored floorings, wardrobes and bookcases symbolize trees in the nature. To interpret the needs of the occupant in artistic manner is the essence of interior design.
Every element derives from the nature, such as forms and lines, expressing the endless creation in the form of natural creatures.
Design Challenge
The design challenge was to learn from nature. Nature is full of beauties, but we lack the capability of discovering them. Such a capability is very important for designers. The charm of design is that excellent designers are able to draw inspiration from nature, transform nature into a part of the space, and hence let people living in busy cities feel nature-like peace and warmth.
For Interior surfaces of the overall space, the design team chose to use white materials such as tiles, and adopted a “blank-leaving” method commonly utilized in traditional Chinese calligraphy, which forms a contrast with suspended ceiling featuring dynamic elements. Through bringing the yard landscape indoors and making the best use of the limited materials, the designers created a relaxing and cozy living environment, in which the occupants can be immersed in nature. In this way, an invisible bond that closely connects the occupants and nature is formed.
Nature (including its modes, shapes and elements, etc.) has been the perennial source of inspiration for designers. It’s the source of all things, and a patient and creative mentor. The aesthetic, power and mystery of nature, branches of corals and rivers, grains of leaves, trees, fingers, blood circulation system, cell nucleus, etc., are awesome. The suspended ceiling and TV backdrop wall of the living room fully embody those views about nature.
Sustainability
The client is a three-person family, consisting of the parents and a daughter, who emphasized the utilization of sustainable materials. Considering this, the designers combined advanced sustainable designs with minimalist aesthetics, and worked to present contrast between nature-imitating forms and modern abstract art, thereby creating unexpected and unique aesthetic in the space through seemingly contrasting elements.
Use of non-polluting materials:
Non-polluting materials utilized in the project include timber with original properties, white wall paint and floor tiles without color additives, as well as transparent glass, etc.
Use of recyclable materials:
Many materials including glass and acrylic are recyclable and were manufactured in Qinhuangdao City, which is not far away from Beijing where the project is situated. Those recyclable materials were applied to glass cabinet doors, staircase enclosure, desks and chairs.
Use of new materials:
All the lamps adopted new-type energy-saving LED light sources and optical fibers. The audio/video room used nature-imitating uneven wallpapers that absorb sounds.
Use of renewable materials
The project utilized wool sofas and beds, and the floors of bedrooms are mainly covered by renewable materials such as multi-ply wood boards. After a long time, they may wear, which can be repaired and renovated with corresponding materials.
Use of durable materials
All the chairs and lighting fixtures are made of acrylic, which is very durable.
Interior Design - International Residential
Open to all international projects this award celebrates innovative and creative building interiors, with consideration given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes, aesthetic presentation and functionality. Consideration also given to space allocation, traffic flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.
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