Port

Holiday Home for SENYI INTERIOR DESIGN

A harbor symbolizes the desire for freedom, a sentiment reflected in this residence overlooking Kaohsiung Port. Designed as both a retreat and guesthouse, the home takes inspiration from a vessel at rest, maintaining a connection to its maritime surroundings. The design softens structural lines and adopts a neutral palette, allowing attention to shift naturally toward the large windows. From this vantage point, the sea, the setting sun, and passing ships become an integral part of the living space.

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Unique Properties

To bring owner's family and friends to meet here from time to time, also stay for a few days, the design starts from the layout, to arrange the entryway, the spacious and comfortable feeling of the living room, the atmosphere of dining room, the multi-function bar and other functional fields. To adjust the two-bedroom layout to three bedrooms, so that the family and friends could stay comfortably in the vacation.

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SENYI INTERIOR DESIGN , Interior Designer, Taiwan, Interior, Holiday Home

Production Technology

The owners have considered the structural problems such as low beam lines and large beams and columns. Therefore, the practice of not capping the roof is adopted, and the top surface is decorated with grille and flat nail ceiling, which avoids further compression of the height of the house while beautifying. Moreover, it starts from the color, to use the black color with retraction function, and then installs a black mirror at the bottom of the beam.

Design Challenge

The living room is designed with black tone and iron elements. Although it achieves the effect of hiding the roof beam and focusing the sight on the window scenery and furniture, it also creates a cool texture virtually. In order to avoid the space atmosphere is too hard and cold, the arc shape is appropriately added in the decoration, so as to play the role of softening the overall environment and adding a soft atmosphere.

Project Duration

The project took 7 months and was finished in May 2024 in Kaohsiung.

Operation Flow

In addition to being a holiday home, there is also the need to entertain relatives and friends. Therefore, by observing the habits of male and female owners, it is found that they prefer to communicate with their friends in different places. The dining table and the bar are specially placed at both ends to create a living area layout of three reception spaces, including the sofa zone. The male host is used to gathering with relatives and friends in the dining place, while the hostess, who likes to make tea and cook light food to entertain friends, uses the bar as the main gathering place.

Research

To meet the accommodation needs of a family of four members, one bedroom is divided into two bedrooms to achieve the purpose of increasing a bedroom. However, the engineering method of using bricks to form the compartment is abandoned, but using the wardrobe as a room wall, which avoids adding a new wall to compress the bedroom area, and just like adding a sound insulation equipment because of the hanging clothes in the wardrobe, while providing storage spaces for two bedrooms, with better effect of blocking the sound transmission.

Inspiration

In everyone's heart, there is a port for freedom, just like ship enters port. The house is located in the bay area of Kaohsiung, with a panoramic view of the Kaohsiung Harbor. The decoration not only creates a high-level luxurious black tone and the basic life quality and functions, but also highlights the beautiful scenery of sea and sky outside the window. The detail of construction method matches this case very well, which is the focus of the design.

Project Overview

Port Holiday Home has been a Silver winner in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design award category in the year 2024 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

Image Credits

For design images and photos please credit Chu Chieh Liang.

Silver Recognition

Chu Chieh Liang was recognized with the coveted Silver A' Design Award in 2025, a testament to excellence of their work Port Holiday Home.

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