Both the dining and living room look connected to the garden and also lively with natural light from openings, light-brown wooden tones, and low profile built-in. ‘Neat & Clean’ mood and tone are also added to this house interior to create a brighter atmosphere. Those interior elements are also applied in the bedroom, study room, and the house second floor without too much decoration.
The intermediate space in this house becomes a mediator to provide a different category of use more than the interior. The house spaces are also used for informal relationships as much as the environment surrounding as among the house inhabitants. These relationships can create a good balance between the house itself and its environment.
This house is also dominated by wood materials. The architect uses this material to design the floor and wall of the bathroom, ceiling, and also the stairs that lead to the upstairs. The residents can enjoy awesome views through the glazed walls from the living room, dining area, and kitchen that placed in the heart area of the house. The combination of wood and natural color inside the house also can bring an elegant look that combined with a modern design.
Now the clients live in a harmonious space with real utility, offering easy coordination to study, work, and leisure activities. This house also engages with the clients in dynamic and subtle ways, continues to delight friends and family. It is a fun multi-level home without sacrificing practicalities and environmental considerations. There some spacees to be shared and also some spaces for seclusion. The house levels are modular, transparent, and split with dramatic and playful features.
Newry House: A Redesigned Family Home with Living Zone Reconfiguration within An Existing 90’s Shell
Newry House is lack of natural light. This problem is solved generally with some form of light well that opens to the sky with garden greenery at the base. There is no lightwell and ‘box’ in this house. The indoor garden is integrated within the house space and it is easily accessed beneath a glass roof, allowing for more natural lights. Instead of focusing on the conservatory idea, the architect comes with an idea of a glasshouse that brings the outdoors inside with a responsive sliding shade.
Cool pastel shades are also used and applied to the walls to follow the psychology of colors, calming the large uncluttered spaces. An outdoor experience of the relaxing surrounding around is available through the doors that lead to terraces.
The architect also ensures that the materials used at this project are beautifully raw, robust, and natural. The materials used include simple robust tiles, bricks, and timber without toxic chemicals and coatings.
The design of effective workspaces can facilitate the efficiency of the immediate environment. The workspaces are not only designed by considering the occupants of a space but also the space expectation. The nature of work in Softcom also has been evaluated to design the office space that can meet their culture to promote collaborations and communalism. Unique office space can be created by using grounded principles on lighting, ergonomics and color psychology.