Challenged to balance their personal life and work in his loft in Oakland, Liu Ming, a feng shui, renowned consultant contacted his former pupil and architect, Toshi Kasai, to make his vision a reality. Toshi, co-founder of interior design and architecture, SPACEFLAVOR, firm worked with Ming to distill essential activities: study, sleep and meditation in a compact cube of 8 feet, leaving a wide area in square metres for its growing feng shui classes.
"He faces a family dilemma for many inhabitants of the urban warehouse," says Toshi. 1,100 Squarefoot industrial apartment Ming felt great and deserted when I was alone, however, needed a space open and flexible for grass-roots of feng shui. Ming was often forced to manage your desktop, buffets and other movable considerable personal to accommodate popular classes.
"We trucados until the blue cube with industrial wheels of cars of races," Toshi chuckles. Ming can freely move the cube and organize your accommodation however wants to retain its crucial personal spaces. Taking advantage of their mobility, Ming re-I continuously the cube toward auspicious directions, which analyzes every week based on the lunar calendar Chinese. "It's nice to see the cube rotated on a new site that I visit," Toshi, says with a smile of satisfaction.
Equipped with roller shade adjustable, translucent, cube allows the daylight filtered through study niches and bed while responds to diverse needs of views, privacy and the Cabinet. "Sleep and study sections provide a sense of missing cosy in immensity of the attic when I'm here," Ming describes his new home at a-hogar.
The cube design based on the fundamental principles of feng shui, the ancient Chinese science of balance of power in the surrounding area. "Yin and Yang represent two opposing forces in constant evolution and balance in the universe." The cube responds to Ying (private and closed) and Yang (public and expansion) in the workspace / efficiency, mobility and flexibility, "says Toshi."
Bed and study openings are placed in opposite corners to create a sense of movement, emulating the flow of passive Yin and Yang active elements. Isolated activities below, loft meditation ceremony and tea access the hidden staircase.
To reduce to a minimum in the manufacture and future relocation facilities, prefabricated of all components, including frameworks of steel and stairs, to pass through a standard door 3 feet wide. Assembly completed within 48 hours. Simplified connections and parts of the building allow Ming disassembled and reassembled the cube with regular DIY tools. "We make sure the cube can migrate to anywhere you want to easily," says Toshi.
Interactive and full of surprises small to reflect the personality of Ming, the doors of stairwell and the Cabinet, including a ladder feeder for shoes, they hide only hinting openings a sense of discovery.
"Green was a factor as it was a sense of Zen-modernism," emphasizes Ming. Humble, yet expressive in its nature, ash plywood panels were selected by their patterns of unique, similar grain hand ink landscape paintings. Plywood sustainably harvested, glued panels soybean were used with all natural, made-insect Shellac finish to deny harmful off-gas.
With the cube above and running in time for Chinese new year, Ming prepares for another twist to the year of the rabbit.
Of SPACEFLAVOR
SPACEFLAVOR provides complete architecture, interior design and feng shui services for home remodels and commercial interiors in the San Francisco Bay area.
The SPACEFLAVOR unique design approach integrating feng shui principles with modern design to address the customers health, career, relationship and other targets as well as functional, aesthetic and budgetary requirements.
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