Project Site: Wuhan
Project Area: 375m2
Project Type: Residential Interior
Design Date: 2023.11
Team Role: Schematic Design
Project Architect: Minyan Li
Team Members: JingxueW, Yinlin Y, Yan W
Northwest Lake Apartment is a residential project that create a space of taste and fashion. The atmosphere of the space combines vintaged modernism and sense of technology and futurism. By contrast of these two different characteristics, the designed space plays a balance that inspire timeless and ambient mood for the client to feel relaxed and at home.
The foyer space uses dark wood veneer for the foyer closets and dark wood floor is applied throughout the whole house. Sliding glass partition is used to create invisible threshold between the foyer and the main living space, which also makes the foyer a cohesive space that connects to the rest of the flat. At the end of the foyer corridor, an lighting atmosphere is created with translucent marble slice, with lighting source behind. An mysterious and intriguing entrance welcomes owners home.
After crossing the foyer, a closet box cladded with wood veneer and green marbles contains the powder room. Inside the box, a glowing ceiling adds futurist feeling to the overall dark black box, which the black wall is cladded with black crocodile leather, adding luxurious touch to the overall simple space. The washbasin is crafted with a block of green Spanish marble, with its reflection to the mirror wall behind. The washbasin is a floating marble block in the dark space, again adding mysterious and futurist feeling to the space.
Next to the powder room, a resting library space is nested between walls, with a view window to the cityscape outside. One side of the resting area is a magazine shelf, and the other shelf is embedded to the powder room wall, decorated with green marble. This space provides temporary resting before leaving the house or after entering the house.
The living room and the dinning room is connected to the foyer and entering space at two ends of the central corridor, which provides best views and lighting to the most important public space of the house. The style of these two areas reminds people of fancy hotels and rich apartments in New York, which is the intended atmosphere for these two areas, requested by the client. The living room is mainly decorated with wood veneer, while the dinning room is mainly decorated with stone marbles. Fireplace is embedded within the black dark marbles facing the red marble dinning table; these colors also plays the game of contrast and balance.
The main bedroom blends styles of Japanese elements to the mature and dark environment of the house. It features dark wood panels with dividing support that runs from the ceiling to the bed stand. There is also a screen that features Japanese gold gliding craftsmanship in front of the bed. The painting next to the bed is carefully curated to match interior design of the space.
The walk-in-closet space is also designed to evoke futurist feeling with use of shining reflecting metals and glowing ceiling. This also creates consistent lighting and reflection, which is necessity to the function of the space. Inside the changing room, an leaf-shaped island is designed to provide extra storage for small objects such as jewelry, wallets or ties. This leaf shape not only creates space that is almost squeezed from this dimension, but also play harmony to the space that it looks like it slides into the center of the room with no efforts.To use this island, you only need to push the center of the island and draws will open, rotating around the pivots at two ends of the islands. This design has been applied with design patent.
In the balcony area, steel structures are designed to create a small loft space, with white metal stair that is surrounded with wooden bookshelf. On the second level, a study space is provided with glass skylights, which provides perfect lightings to the working space.
This project remains unbuilt.
