DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
EIDPL : Home owner would like to returning to cozy home after a daylong working hour at office. They enjoy staying at home during non-working day. Usually they enjoy Cafe hopping and cooking at home. Hence we design to bring cafe vibes to the home and plan the kitchen layout within this limited space to meet their everyday needs.
DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
EIDPL : Playing with light and line is the focus for designing this work, yet we does not want to see wires running around the ceiling. By using the line on ceiling is also part of the design details yet can also hide the wiring without doing a false ceiling to lower down the ceiling height.
DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
EIDPL : We does not want to stop here and we will continue and making improvement to our next projects.
DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
EIDPL : Around 2 months.
DI: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
EIDPL : To try out new design details and get inspiration from it.
DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
EIDPL : Singtel and one local furniture retailer used our projects as their ad. We will let home owner to decided as this is their house after all.
DI: What made you design this particular type of work?
EIDPL : To meet the home owner daily needs.
DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
EIDPL : Yup. We work as a Team of 3.
DI: Who is the target customer for his design?
EIDPL : One of our team member's home.
DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
EIDPL : The design and details not all home owner can accept.
DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
EIDPL : A Residences, A is the nickname of the home owner.
DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
EIDPL : AutoCad, 3D max, Photoshop and excel to work on the quotation.
DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
EIDPL : The Cafe vibes and colour theme.
DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
EIDPL : Our company have our own teams of skilled electricians and carpenters.
DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
EIDPL : Lighting effect.
DI: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
EIDPL : Explore on the colour theme and how to get the light effects.
DI: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
EIDPL : The height of the ceiling and the limited space of the unit from the original layout.
DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
EIDPL : We feel that this house is an inspiration.
DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?
EIDPL : Playing with design detailing and light.
