Designer Collaborative Campaign 2021

5 Hong Kong well established and up-and-coming architects talk about the important of windows to them for space crafting

Given the scale and strength of monsoon weather is getting more unpredictable by year, Hong Kong wealth is starting to pay more attention to high quality window solutions.

Hong Kong has been claimed to be the most expensive residential city in worldwide for years. Although this city does not lack of luxurious mansions and buildings, many are fitted with basic, low-quality windows that do little to withstand typhoons and to give the interiors enough of protection.

JS Aluminium Window, Hong Kong luxurious window solution provider invited 5 reputable architects to tell us why window is an important tool for space-making and mood-setting apart from its high performance.

Lorène Faure and Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui, founders of Bean Buro

Mount Pavilion show flow for New World Development

‘Chalet Terrace’ for private residential client

‘Social House’ Clubhouse for Nan Fung Group

Bean Buro

“With our background as architects, we approach our interiors, emphasising utilising natural daylight and shadows to create spaces. Windows are fundamental to the architectural setting since they are situated at the threshold between inside and outside, constantly informing our perception of the external sceneries and our tactile experiences of internal material finishes when they are brought to life by natural daylight”

Lorène Faure & Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui, founders of Bean Buro

Like fluted glazing, the acrylic tubes playfully distort the view between each zone

Oversized doors seamlessly connect this courtyard house to the temperate Melbourne environment

From the Earth and the Trees, the Australian landscpe is celebrated in the interior

Opening towards the spectacular views, large openings allow cooling sea breeze through the house

Full height pivot doors create a dramatic entrance to the seminar hall

Steel windows provide a touch of old world charm to our clubhouse facilities in Taoyaun

BEAUTY BLOODY BONZA co-founders Greta Mak and Peter Scott

BEAUTY BLOODY BONZA

“Not purely a visual medium, windows alter the way we feel space and experience our home. Simultaneously protecting from and connecting to the elements, fenestration presents the ability to transform the spaces we inhabit. Through operability and maneuverability, they become key touch points, where the quality of the system is felt through the weighted effortlessness of their movement.”

Peter Scott, founder of BEAUTY BLOODY BONZA

The frameless full height window obscures the transition between the view and the architecture, and brings the beautiful lush green landscape into the interior of the houses

The texture on the glass erases the detail of the outside blue basketball court, and creates a mirage like image like an impressionist painting of a swimming pool

The vertical strip window frames a fragment of the garden view. The humble and careful opening enhances the sensitivity and respect to the intrinsic qualities of the retreat room at a Buddhist hall

Eureka

“We see window as a spatial device that defines the atmosphere of a space. Be it a narrow slit opening that brings in a glance of landscape at a meditation space, or a mirage like impressionist painting through textured glass, the window is performing actively in the creation of the emotion of a space.”

Eureka

Jackey Ip, founder and design director of Monotype Studio

A private garden framed by classical georgian bar windows with Louvre blinds

A wooden aperture scrolling from ceiling to floor framing a portrait view of an oasis poolside

A wooden verandah bridging nature into the interior

Sunray brings in rhythmic cast shadows of the georgian bar from outside-in

Study desk portal frame making work-from-home with compliments of a mountain view

Vanity counter stretch with dressing table complimented with natural light & one of a kind view

Window sill forms part of a picture frame highlighting the nature outdoor with the comfort of indoor daybed

Monotype Studio

“Picture window invites us to take in a view that is thoughtfully framed, from a scenic moment to a time-lapse of urban dynamics. The awareness of time gives us hints to adapt our day with timely events or functions. Our interior layouts could be composed from inside out, and harmoniously with windows outside in, dramatizing a façade with a montage of indoor life and lights at night…”

Jackey Ip, founder and design director of Monotype Studio

Light and passage

Nature you can touch

Sea Breeze

Mashrabiya Inspired Skylights

Winston Yeo & Effie Yang, OFGA co-founders

OFGA

“A window gives orientation. It’s a point of connection to the elements. Is there a dramatic view? What is the quality of the light? Is it loud outside? Do we want to draw air in?

Modern windows give us greater creative freedom in selecting which elements to draw in and which to keep out. It affords us greater confidence to go bigger and to create more meaningful connections.”

Winston Yeo, co-founder of OFGA

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