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Honey Lake Private House

Matrix Design

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Living room - Shi Xiang Wan He
Bedroom - Shi Xiang Wan He
Bedroom - Shi Xiang Wan He
Living room - Shi Xiang Wan He

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JURY VOTES
Large Apartment
5.30
6.87
5.82
4.51
5.63
Judith Haase
Judith Haase Architect at Gonzalez Haase AAS
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5
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4
5
Tetsuya Matsumoto
Tetsuya Matsumoto Head Architect at KTX archiLAB
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5
5
4.75
Lauren Touhey-Otto
Lauren Touhey-Otto Head of Design at Kinzo Architekten GmbH
Creative design and decorated with...
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7
4
4.5
Howard Duffy
Howard Duffy Founder at HTDSTUDIO Arkitekter AB
Beautifully composed palette. It's...
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6
7.75
Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson Architect at Mark Anderson Design
Poetic mise en scène...
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4
5
Franziska Heuschkel
Franziska Heuschkel Founder at Space & Pepper
The level of creative confidence in...
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2
8
4
4.75
Sam McMorran
Sam McMorran Strategy and Design Director at IDEO
Whimsical feeling and great thought...
5
3
8
4
5
Bhavin Taylor
Bhavin Taylor Founder / Interior Designer at Bhavin Taylor Design
This feels like a magical space, bu...
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4
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4
5.25
Vivian van Schagen
Vivian van Schagen Founder at The Invisible Party
The narrative of a fairytale like '...
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5
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5
5.75
Hana Ahriz
Hana Ahriz Co-founder at Space & Pepper
I have never seen a residential pro...
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3
8
4
5.25
Tracey Wiles
Tracey Wiles Principal at woods bagot
A magical environment full of wonde...
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9
4
7
Vicki Spielmann
Vicki Spielmann Group Creative Lead, Head of Brand Experience at Google
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4
5
4
4.5
Nic Lee
Nic Lee Design Director at Waterfrom Design Co., Ltd
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4
5
4
4.5
Agnes Kwek
Agnes Kwek Design Ambassador at DesignSingapore Council
7
4
6
5
5.5
John Allsopp
John Allsopp Architect at John Allsopp Studio
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6
7
4
5.75
Client
Liu Jianhui
Floor area
197 ㎡
Completion
2020
Finishes

This is not a newly constructed residence in the city, but it is precisely in such a location that it guards a green space in the center of the city, and gets quietness among noisy area. That is truly a hermit hidden in the city. Standing on the 21st floor, all coming into eyes are the green natural scenery of the Honey Sports Park.

 In a space of 180 square meters(1937 sq. ft), the resident people are designer couple and their two sons, the non-resident people are the elders and housekeeper. Living room and dining room are in the central axis. On the left is the master bedroom suite of the designer and his wife and an open platform. The two bedrooms on the right are for the elders and housekeeper. The design of the open platform originated from the designer's sustenance of two children to accompany each other for a lifetime. Boys of the same age stayed together in childhood and played together. 

They were each other's best playmates from beginning to the end. The brotherhood and companionship are the best love for children. When the children are young, the platform is used as a "big playground" for the family. The designer is busy at work and hopes to have more time with the children. For designers, home can be easily as place to have meals together or play and sleep together. The decorative elements of the hardware design are reduced to the minimum, and the overall space is presented with fewer types of materials. Logs, mirrors and texture paint constitute most of the hard decoration. 

The principle is to create space with "simple" material texture and detailed concepts. During the long working time of designing nearly a thousand large and small spaces, the designer listened to many people's understanding of home, and his understanding of space tends to be more reserved and calm. His ideal home is simple and original by just enlarging the favorite elements of primitive trees and wood, warm and changing sunlight with his years of space design experience and much more with his hope and expectations toward home. 

In the simple hardware design, the designer chooses to put favorite green plants in each space, such as sugar cotton, banana flowers, etc. The overlapping mapping of light and shadow and green plants renders a piece of vitality and comfort in the open view of the house and outdoor landscape from day to night.

 In terms of furniture selection, the design hopes to maintain the most natural and comfortable atmosphere in the space to be consistent with the hard decoration. Sofas, tables, chairs and beds are made of wood, linen, rattan and other materials with natural attributes. Every furniture selection and placement is derived from the designer's expectation of home and the understanding of design. Furniture brands: carl hansen, &tradition, magis, arper, montana.