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Castle of Fairy Tale Residential House by Fang Ming Lo Wins the Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Fang Ming Lo acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2019 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Castle of Fairy Tale Residential House by Fang Ming Lo, designed for Dreamer Interior Design. The result belongs to the 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About Castle of Fairy Tale Residential House
Castle of Fairy Tale is a duplex apartment interior located on the fifth floor of a residential building. The original layout was closed and dark, so partitions were removed and rebuilt to form a tall hall. The hallway was moved to the exterior and the living room was extended horizontally through an arcade and grating lines that bring in sunlight. Part of the ceiling was removed to increase the vertical height and to create a semi-open attic on the second floor that serves as an extension of the study. Four arch windows in the attic wall hold artwork.
About Fang Ming Lo
Fang Ming Lo is an interior designer specializing in custom luxury residential spaces, recognized for elevating interior architecture to international hospitality standards. His design practice focuses on three direct principles: deep user insight, personalized aesthetic transformation, and harmony with the environment. Rejecting generic style labels, Lo translates each requirements into functional layouts tailored to their specific lifestyle. To ensure engineering excellence, he incorporates premium finishes, European crystals, and refined mirror details. His work prioritizes structural precision and material layering, delivering enduring comfort and a peaceful residential experience.
Award Record
This recognition makes Fang Ming Lo a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2017 - 2018 to 2018 - 2019 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://desingers.org/75165
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/75165
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!75165
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/203494
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Castle of Fairy Tale Residential House
- Function
- Residential House
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Dreamer Interior Design
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Fang Ming Lo
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2018 - 2019
- Design ID
- #75165
Credits
- Team
- Lo, Fang Ming
- Image Credits
- reamer Interior Design & CO.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This case is 5F duplex apartment. We remove the dark feeling of closed pattern by removal and reconstruction to construct tall and majestic hall, and so sense of space is improved by 4 times. The beauty of light and shadow deriving from opera box, air gallery, and European arcade lines are fused with the original life function to create a rich life situation and European style art is introduced and details are planned to achieve a high quality house worth of savoring.
- Inspiration
- We use the “castle” of fairy tale. In addition to improvement of restrictions of existing space, we hope this space may state the more stories of the occupants, and perfectly fuses European culture and art into life to inspire the rich imagination and drama of life, art and nature.
- Research
- The ceiling is locally removed and the hallway is moved to the exterior to horizontally and vertically expand the drawing room to achieve the beauty of light and shadow, and form the majestic hall. The semi-open air attic is constructed at second floor to become the extended interior of the study. The opera box function is fused and transparent glass rail is used to reduce the estrangement with the public space. 4 arch windows are constructed in the wall facing the attic and used for placing different artwork which provides different enjoyment interest by day and at night.
- Challenge
- As the original interior pattern is relatively closed, the challenge encountered by us in this case is how to create broad sense of space, and create luxurious majestic space momentum, and how to properly arrange the function of elevated space.
- Realization and Technology
- To make the living room more open, we choose to move the hallway to outdoors and horizontally extend the living room by the extension of the arcade and the grating lines to introduce sunshine and achieve the beauty of light and shadow. On the other hand, ceiling is locally removed to upward increase the vertical height of the space, achieve the majestic shape of the hall, and form a semi-open air attic at second floor. The semi-open attic may be used as the extended interior of the study, and after the translucent screen is lowered, official business may be discussed with guests.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in Nov.2017 and finished in Aug. 2018 in Taichung, Taiwan.
- Specifications
- Three hierarchical landscape changes are provided in the starting area of the hallway upwards along the steps of the stair, spatial vision is extended by combination of French windows and double door in the arcade and neat grating shadow is sprinkled indoor to become metaphorical transition between the exterior and the interior. 3 different kinds of stone are paved in the interior to embody introverted delicate space texture.
- Keywords
- Interior, Design, House, Residence, neoclassical
