Shiho Chu
PM001680
Taiwan / Interior Design
1994 Graduated from Osaka College of Art in Association with Osaka University of Arts.
1998 Established Dial Design Co., Ltd., based in Taiwan.
2006 Advocates the idea of “Healing Space” in residential spaces, our design methods are “distinguishable creativity and bold-thinking” and “people-oriented and stayed with unadorned”. The phrase “Healing Space “ even became a proper noun in Taiwanese market ever since.
While sharing more aesthetic perception of design with the public, we preserved and practices Japanese aesthetic into our design, which has slowly transformed the public from the perspective of purely enjoys Japanese culture to extracting the essence of Japanese culture, and flavored it with passion and the free spirits of Taiwanese elements. Adding the affections to the local, we developed a type of design that varies from Japanese restricted line-structured space and monotonous colours, we named this phenomenon as “Neo-Wafuism”.
Awards:
2015 Taiwan Interior Design Award.
2015-2016 Asia Pacific Design Center Award
2016 Singapore Interior Design Award (Honorable Mention).
2016-2017 Real Estate Design China Award.
2017 iF Awards
Portfolio
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Steak House
The modern expression of burned wood mixed with “Kyoto Machiya”, a traditional Japanese building style, which brought back the memories of the good old times in the city (Tainan, Taiwan.).
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Wu She (Japanese Cuisine Restaurant)
The sushi bar is embellished with Toyotomi, Hideyoshi's "The Golden Tea Room", and the tranquil scene of "Sakura Fubuki “ is imbedded into the cabinet doors on the wall.
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Wu She (Japanese Cuisine Restaurant)
By using iron pieces arranged in grid patterns, we attempts to shape a Japanese-style introverted façade with the metaphor of burned fir grid, echoing the green bamboo outside the windows. It not only covers the old and shabby appearance of the building, but also replaces the private boxes in the second floor, offering more appropriate isolation for the guests.
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Office Akatsuki
AKATSUKI is a development team of Japan's Mobile game, whose aim is to "To dawn the world hope through their own game creativity.”.
Being their space creators, in the same creative standpoint, our team would love to create a field which inspires greatest creation for the cross-boundary creators with passion and rationality.
Japan's corporate office space is always stereotyped as "regularity", "sense of order", and everything is displayed "reasonably". Because of the owner’s dissatisfaction with existing regulated office space, either in space size or in space modeling, this design is intended to create a space with game characteristics in line with the philosophy of the enterprise. We have the determination to subvert the design with the owner, creating a brand-new generation of "office space" -
Office Akatsuki
AKATSUKI is a development team of Japan's Mobile game, whose aim is to "To dawn the world hope through their own game creativity.”.
Being their space creators, in the same creative standpoint, our team would love to create a field which inspires greatest creation for the cross-boundary creators with passion and rationality.
Japan's corporate office space is always stereotyped as "regularity", "sense of order", and everything is displayed "reasonably". Because of the owner’s dissatisfaction with existing regulated office space, either in space size or in space modeling, this design is intended to create a space with game characteristics in line with the philosophy of the enterprise. We have the determination to subvert the design with the owner, creating a brand-new generation of "office space" -
Neo-Wafu
The Neo-Wafu style is about the use of light and shadow, green and natural building materials, so that the feelings of the four seasons change. And then by the occupants into the color, to build an elegant but unique Japanese color aesthetics.
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Neo-Wafu
Traditional Japanese wooden architecture has unique and calm character, always let the occupants feel the paradise-like quiet atmosphere. Cement building almost monopolized the home of today, let people completely forget the wooden construction has brought the share of simple and stable; we because of the Japanese-style space and the house of the house, trying to Japan through "self-built" single-building concept, in the shell of the cement, we can create a "Neo-Wafu house" like a Japanese hot spring accommodation.
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Single Apartment @ TAIPEI
We divide the 43sqm space with lightning bolt shape. With the proposition of 65% public area to 35% private area, we define the living space scale of urban “Unmarried Aristocrats“. The “Unmarried Aristocrats “ loves to call for friends. We have the micro-house equipped with specifications that only a large luxury mansion might have. From the entrance, the living room, the dining room, the kitchen, to the standard bathroom and the bedroom, we try best to make the single life situation completely satisfied within the 43sqm house and free from restraints.