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Taizhou Xin Qian Square Penthouse
By : Guangzhou Herabenna Interior Design Co., Ltd.
GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN – 17th edition
Discipline : Interior Design
Categories : Residence / Residential Space > 5,400 sq.ft. (> 500 sq.m.) : Gold Certification
The project sitting on the top floor of the building is in the center of Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. With excellent view of the city, you can appreciate the artistic conception of “seeing mountains small at a glance” and taste the poetic flavor of city’s “hustle and bustle”. As a luxury full-floor apartment project, it aims to create a private domain for the city’s upper class that contains multiple scenarios, such as living, business, leisure, entertaining guests and family gathering. Because of its attributes are different from multi-storey villa, which means its space layout and interior furnishings tend to be flat, the designer intends to break the traditional space layout, and adopt different methods, like integrating different living scenes in the same space and adopting “multifunctional master bedroom” model to reach the penthouse advantage of space. In this way, each area has its own independent function and influences each other, making the home lively and warm.
Luxury in the traditional sense is the display of luxury buildings, silver, gold, jade and jewelry. With the progress of the times, aesthetics has also begun to change from complex to simple, pretentious to low-key. Italian-style furniture, bag, suitcase and fashion clothing are internationally loved. In China, however, the Song Dynasty knew best that real luxury is not the accumulation of ostentatious, exaggerated and high-profile elements. This case attempts to integrate two above aesthetics again, redefining luxury and presenting the life aesthetics of new urban elites.
The design is based on contemporary aesthetic interest. It applies Italian aesthetics to the space, and sets the tone of the space with simple lines and pure faces.
Stone, the building material which is rich in historical temperament. Passed down through the years and crafted with exquisite skills make its luxurious texture maximized. The space facade design features a large volume and incorporates a lot of luxurious stone, marble, metal, leather and other materials to highlight the space’s nobility and luxury. The inspiration for ornaments’ layout is drawn from Italian-style furniture and handcrafted bags. The craftsmanship and quality embody the lifestyle attitude and good taste of the upper class, which also reflects the quality concept of luxury houses that the design itself aims to convey.
Owners are well-known real estate developers in China. As a top urban elite group who owns huge wealth, they pursue a lifestyle which is high-end, elegant, luxurious and full of sense of rituals. The designer started with the concept of a luxury house, adopted a rigorous approach to the material selection, and finally create the sense of space quality with luxurious stone materials, bringing the distinguished experience to the residents through changes in structural volumes. At the same time, the designer integrates Italian aesthetics with Song Dynasty aesthetics, redefines luxury, starts the aesthetic experience with cultural exchange, and creates a new model of the urban upper-class life.
As a high-end residential form, luxury full-floor apartment may replace multi-storey houses and become the mainstream for the upper class in the future. The interior design is facing the trend for flattening, and designers need to have more professional vision in terms of layout planning, quality, humanization, and privacy. In this case, the master bedroom is completely independent from other rooms. After entering the home, the motion lines of the master room and living room are separated, which is the biggest highlight of the spatial design. The master suite covers all aspects of life in a small home model, including a small living room, bedroom, study, wine storage area, double walk-in closets and three-quarter bath. Ensuring the privacy of the owner is also the respect for the owner’s identity, which caters to the upper-class pursuit to the life’s sense of ritual. In the bustling urban environment, the designer still hopes to preserve a spiritual sanctuary for the owner, a quiet place to reflect, rest, and return to the freedom of minds.
