The Ideal Life Of Yongheyuan
Everything arises from one thought.
The most attractive and moving point of private house design perhaps lies in the emptying to change the environment, loving with the heat and infiltrating the heart. The work of a private house designer is not limited to listening, knowing, thinking, creating, reshaping, building, displaying and concealing. And then in the simple daily life, it will nourish or heal life quietly. It seems ordinary and trivial, but it’s of great importance and significance if we see it from another perspective.
Demands of Ideal Life
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People, depending on their own majors, life experience and emotions, are engaged in different professions and serve the society in order to realize the ideal life and life value. From this perspective, designers are also like caregivers of people's lives under different professional backgrounds, while LICO is willing to become a peer and creator for people to pursue and realize their ideal life.
This was a design commission from a young woman engaged in medical care who lives alone. This gentle, pleasant, and relatively independent hostess is of high aesthetic taste, attaches importance to quality and detail. She often sees a movie after work, and is especially keen on art collection. On weekdays, the working hours are tight, the pressure is relatively large, she has relatively little time at home. She rarely cook. Occasionally, her boyfriend who is a doctor and her mother will come to stay for several days. She expects LICO team to create an ideal house that is artistic, free and relaxed. In it, art collections can be displayed everywhere.
SOLUTION Design of Ideal Life
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A strong sense of responsibility and mission is a must for medical practitioners. Most of the time, their love and patience are dedicated to their work and others, leaving very little time and space for themselves, their friends and family. Fortunately, art provides a proper and brief way for them to escape, and it is also an arbitrary door for people to enter their inner world or to connect with a wider world freely and easily.Therefore, based on the design concept of "50%DESIGN", LICO team proposed the design topic of "space is art, and art is space" and launched the creation idea of this case, aiming to reshape a self-nurturing personal gallery with art, freedom and collection.
As the working environment is surrounded by metal and a smell of disinfectant water. the designer team pay much attention to the space air circulation, lighting and the commemorative significance, freedom and security of the space atmosphere. For example, they changed the second bedroom, which is of poor lighting and ventilation originally, into a semi-open multi-function space consisting of two arches for the hostess to collect, see movies and play games. The artistic memorial arches connecting the living room and bedroom draws inspiration from rainbow. They echo with the living room and windows to create a sense of humanities and nature, classical and modern, virtual and real.
The antique collection of the hostess can be placed somewhere in the house. She can drink tea, sit and think.Moreover, the bedroom and washing area are also connected by an arc which can soft the space and make the hostess relaxed. Of course, the creative designs of the house is not limited to these above.
Realistic View of Ideal Life
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Art, the sheath of independent individuality, the meaning of which, as it was said by Romain Rollan,essentially is to reveal the true emotion, the mystery of inner life of humans and the passionate world. We are given all sorts of titles such as designer, doctor, teacher, artist, worker, farmer, scientist and so on because of our different dreams and directions in society. However, facing the arts, we can pull ourselves away from those roles and regain the chance for free perception and real thoughts as an independent individual. At this moment, it is what you feel no matter its elegance or commonplace, understandable or not, right or wrong. Without mental internal friction, we are rejuvenated with each breath.
Art provides freedom for life. It gives us an option of not always doing the reasonable, correct and real things as well. The opposite side of art is indifference instead of vulgarity. Treasuring art is to protect the emotion of life. One of the important resources of art is the intersection of our heart and the reflection of memory. It could be, or unnecessarily, a painting, an old piece, a gem or a pocket watch. It could also be a residence, or a unique window and door, or an incomplete rock, or material or immaterial, real or unreal after the experience and accumulation of emotion.
Everything arises from one thought. Wish all the people who always love life have a self-nurturing personal gallery full of goodness and sense of belonging. Wish you all can create and realize your dream life by opening the door of inner life by means of art.
- Interiors: LICO Design
- Photos: Eric Chon