Very Studio brings mild to Taiwan’s Sunny Residence with vaulted ceiling

Arches spring up throughout the ceiling of this house in Taiwan, which Very Studio has overhauled to look extra vivid and spacious.

Set inside a residential block within the metropolis of Taichung, the Sunny Residence beforehand featured a light-starved residing space with poor air flow – a majority of the house’s home windows had been remoted to the constructing’s south elevation.

To make the 200-square-metre house extra accommodating for a household of 4, regionally based mostly Very Studio devised a design scheme that centered on three components it felt outlined the “essence of residing”: area, air and sound.

Partition partitions have been rearranged to loosely kind a pentagonal-shaped flooring plan that angles sightlines in the direction of the house’s few home windows.

The ceiling has been become a sequence of vaults, giving the impression of a taller and extra lofty front room. Every arch has an inner timber body that was reduce utilizing a CNC-milling machine.

“We wished to create a shared area as one room, an area with fluidity. Due to this fact, we thought of modifying the extent of the ceiling,” the studio instructed Dezeen.

“We additionally wished to erase the edge-line of the ceiling, then the concept for the domes appeared,” it continued.

“[The clients] have been questioning whether or not to simply accept the proposal – they could not think about the area simply by drawings and renderings.”

To make sure the brand new ceiling hadn’t affected the sound high quality all through the house, the studio used Odeon – a pc modelling software program that is capable of take a look at and simulate the acoustic efficiency of unbuilt areas.

It assessed a wide range of components together with sound-pressure ranges, speech intelligibility and music readability.

The eating desk, a cream, leather-based couch and a few bench seats run down the center of the lounge, inviting inhabitants to collect and work together.

Extra personal areas like a studying nook and research have been tucked contained in the arched niches that seem alongside the house’s peripheries.

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Surfaces all through have been painted white to maintain the area vivid, whereas a number of spotlights have been dotted throughout the ceiling to supply extra synthetic mild.

The Sunny Residence is shortlisted within the 2019 Dezeen Awards – it is going to go head-to-head in opposition to initiatives resembling Vallirana 47, a Barcelona house block that boasts opulent interiors and The Biscuit Manufacturing unit, a London flat which occupies a former baking room.