London Design Gold

2025

Minimalist Narrative

Entrant Company

Zhang Jianbin

Category

Interior Design - Residential 

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

This project addresses the core desire for quality living among urban elites, conceptualized as the "Vessel of Simple & Elegant Living" to redefine modern residential space. The design consciously curates away excessive ornamentation, utilizing clean lines, pure materials, and a structural layout to create a living environment that harmonizes practicality with artistic sensibility.

The designer focuses on minimalist and sophisticated aesthetics, emphasizing the unity of form and function: open-plan communal areas enhance interaction, well-defined zoning balances privacy with openness, while natural textures and sustainable material selections establish the space's inherent quality. The ultimate result is an ideal residence meticulously crafted for contemporary lifestyles, embodying an elegant living experience.

Design difficulties

The existing layout faced multiple constraints: structural partitions obstructed natural light, enclosed public areas diminished interaction potential, and rigid functional zoning created abrupt transitions between private and active zones. Storage demands struggled to coexist with aesthetic integrity. The core challenge emerged: How to simultaneously resolve spatial transparency, functional versatility, and visual cohesion within limited square footage?

Design Strategies:

Reconfigured spatial hierarchy by transforming an existing single room into a suite;

Curated botanical focal points in the living area to establish visual anchors;

Strategically framed entry sequence to cultivate arrival ritualism。

Innovative Distinction:

From design to project completion, this project achieved balance between function and form across functional layout, material selection, lighting design, and sustainability, ultimately delivering successfully to the client.

Spatial Reconstruction: Breaking down barriers, adopting the design concept of introducing artistic landscapes indoors.

Material Aesthetics: Integrating wood, marble, and metal materials, enhancing quality through textural contrasts. For example:Deep wood wall paneling in bedrooms creates a tranquil atmosphere.Stone flooring in living areas paired with metallic accents refines sophistication.

Light environment creation: Multi-layered lighting system accommodates scenario requirements,with hidden light strips in the bedroom outlining the contours, and point light sources in the study focusing on functional areas, balancing atmosphere and practicality.

Sustainable practices: Prioritized eco-friendly materials (low-formaldehyde boards, non-toxic paints), maximizing natural lighting and ventilation to reduce energy consumption, modular furniture design to reduce resource waste.

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