This is an award wining project
Outstanding Greater China Award and Hong Kong Designers Asscoication Global Award
Brief
Located in a prestigious part of urban city, this house
in Hong Kong is a rare find surrounded by trees. The owners have an extremely
busy schedule. Our task is to converse the 40 years old house to an Urban Retreat which contains a large swimming pool, four en suite bedrooms a study, gym and snooker room and at the same time retain the historical form ofthe building. The intention is to turn this into a private retreat in order to have an instant “get away” from their regular busy life.
Design Concept
Spa therapy in Asia is widely expanded. The luxury to
enjoy spa regularly in ones private home is everyone’s dream.
Although the context is set in an urban
residential area, the space actually offers plenty of fresh air and captivating
greenery view.
Our idea is to create a luxury urban retreat to merge
the natural scenery with the interior and in addition to introduce water/trees
into the space as a spiritual purifier. The boundary of inside / outside, home
/ retreat become blur and the presence of nature becomes therapeutic and the
space plays revitalizing connections between people, water and the nature in
the urban setting.