Shenzhen-based design practice 31 Design recently completed a villa project in Haikou. With considerations for the site’s environment and conditions, the designers integrated architecture with interior to allow dwellers to dialogue with nature. Rather than bringing in complicated yet meaningless decorations, the design team adopted simplistic expressions, to return to the essence of life, redefine leisurely luxury and build an ideal space for living.

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Coexistence with nature
Hidden amidst a lush wild coconut wood, the house offers an open view of a meadow, a coconut wood and a stream, creating unique experience.
For the dwellers, going home is like a jungle trip. Traveling through lush trees, they’ll reach home at the end of the road. Away from the hustle and bustle of city life and immersed in the fresh air of the jungle, this home provides a spiritual retreat. Speed and passion are essential for life, but the courage to slow down is much more so. After multiple site investigations, 31 Design took advantage of the favorable site conditions, and comprehensively integrated the building, the interior and the surrounding environment. Meanwhile, the designers combined the functional layout, the circulation route with the natural environment to build a microclimate for the space featuring coexistence and balance.
The boundary of the interior and the outside is blurred, to bring wind and sunshine into the...