Sunshine Villa

Residence for Gucang Design

The designer reconstructs the original architectural space and makes the interior space layout more reasonable by moving the original staircase position, which circumvents the disadvantages of street architecture and greatly enhances the overall value of the villa.The design focuses on solving problems such as spatial planning of the street architecture. The design idea is to help users integrate with the natural environment as much as possible in a state of sufficient privacy to create a sunny and natural living environment.

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The designer reconstructs the original architectural space and makes the interior space layout more reasonable by moving the original staircase position, which circumvents the disadvantages of street architecture and greatly enhances the overall value of the villa.

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Interior, design, structural transformation, space, lighting, stairs

Production Technology

The design focuses on solving problems such as spatial planning of the street architecture. The design idea is to help users integrate with the natural environment as much as possible in a state of sufficient privacy to create a sunny and natural living environment, including: Firstly, reasonable spatial planning: the designer moves the interior staircase to the street frontage, and the living room and bedroom are adjusted to the landscape facing the interior garden, thus minimizing the impact of the outdoor environment on the living space. Secondly, improvement of interior lighting: the exterior walls along the staircase is transformed into soundproof glass. The living room on the first floor adopts large floor-to-ceiling glass door, which greatly increases indoor space lighting on the plane and facade. Thirdly, interaction between human and nature: unified planning is made on the garden and interior space. The living room and the garden are connected in multiple places, and even some living room functions are moved into the garden, making the living space fully integrate with the outdoor natural environment.

Design Challenge

The building faces the street with noisy outdoor environment, so the privacy and living comfort in the house are greatly affected. However, the structure of the building cannot be changed, which requires the designer to reconstruct the spatial layout through interior transformation. By relocating the stairs, the designer changes the spatial plan and adjusts all the main living space to face the backyard, therefore the function layout becomes more reasonable, even enhance the value of the villa.

Project Duration

Project Design Period: February 2018 - April 2018 Project Construction Project Period: March 2018-September 2018 Project Completion: 10 September, 2018 Project Location: Country Garden Community, Enshi City, Hubei Province, China

Operation Flow

Interior space planning has a huge impact on the lifestyle of the occupants. The designer makes unified planning on the interior space and the backyard garden. The interior and exterior synchronization design connects the living room and the garden in multiple places. The large-scale open design makes the interaction between people and nature more thorough, and also makes the living conditions of the owner's family more healthy and close to nature.

Research

Spatial planning and transformation of street architecture. Reconstruction of spatial layout through interior transformation. Reasonable layout of spatial motion trend and residential functions. Integration of living space and outdoor natural environment. Optimizing natural lighting of the living environment.

Inspiration

The young couple, owners of the villa, love nature and sunshine, hoping to create a living room in a garden. The designer unifies planning of the living room and the rear garden, connects the living room with three walls, and sets up two recreational areas in the garden, which makes the garden and living room fully integrates in space and function, creating a natural living environment in a city.

Image Credits

Photographer: Jiang Chuan

Project Overview

Sunshine Villa Residence has been a Iron winner in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design award category in the year 2019 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.

Iron Recognition

Yanlai Xiao was recognized with the coveted Iron A' Design Award in 2020, a testament to excellence of their work Sunshine Villa Residence.

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