More Design Redefines Luxury Living For a Multigenerational Family

This week’s instalment of the Project of the Week series features a luxury family home design by 2025 SBID Awards Finalist, More Design.

Inspired by Georges Seurat’s Neo-Impressionist principles, this residential project reinterprets domestic life through a “spatial pointillism” concept tailored for a multigenerational Asian family. The design team transformed the original structure to include a ceremonial basement social hub, intelligent zoning, and a 60-meter circulation loop fostering intergenerational connection. Blending Art Deco influences with digital fabrication, the residence features biomorphic mosaics, acoustic innovations, and daylight-responsive interiors. Through adaptive reuse, prefabrication, and low-impact landscape integration, the project redefines luxury living with cultural nuance, technical precision, and environmental sensitivity—creating a sanctuary where sculptural aesthetics and family warmth harmoniously converge.

What was the client’s brief?

The client is an Asian high-net-worth family consisting of a couple, their overseas-educated daughter, and two preschool-aged sons. Their core residential demands centered on three key aspects: first, intergenerational living adaptability, requiring a space that balances the diverse needs of family members across ages—such as creating zones for the couple’s social interactions, the daughter’s independent living, and the young boys’ activities, while ensuring both connection and privacy among generations; second, natural integration, with a strong emphasis on “sunlight penetration” and “symbiosis with nature” to infuse the residence with natural vitality; third, personalized expression, hoping to translate the family’s unique traits (including the female homeowner’s connection to “flowers” as reflected in her name) into spatial attributes, and to have a living environment that combines a sense of ritual with relaxed comfort, realizing a poetic cohabitation experience.

What inspired the design of the project?

The design drew inspiration from multiple layers, forming a cohesive creative framework:

Artistic origin: It took Georges Seurat’s Neo-Impressionist aesthetics as the conceptual starting point, innovatively adopting the “spatial pointillism” technique to reconstruct the narrative of residential life, transforming the fragmented visual language of pointillism into integrated spatial logic.

Cultural gene: It rooted in the “coexistence and mutual support” cultural essence of East Asian families, aiming to materialize the intergenerational harmony of Asian households into spatial forms.

Personalized cues: The “flower” character from the female homeowner’s name served as a core personal symbol—through parametric design, floral forms were deconstructed into floor mosaics and ceiling textures, creating a biomorphic spatial narrative that echoed the family’s identity.

Market demand response: It closely aligned with the living aspirations of Asian high-net-worth families for “sunlit vitality and symbiosis with nature”, integrating functional needs with aesthetic pursuit.

What was the toughest hurdle your team overcame during the project?

The team faced three core challenges, and addressed them with targeted innovations:

Challenge 1: Reconstructing the building’s vertical functional logic
The original spatial layout failed to meet the family’s demand for “separation of dynamic and static functions” and intergenerational adaptation. The solution was a vertical reconstruction of the architectural structure: transforming the original basement (traditionally a neglected space) into the core social layer, integrating the foyer, art gallery, and piano area to form a composite field; converting the original ground floor into a private living space, and establishing a dual-entry system to clearly divide communal and private zones vertically.

Challenge 2: Balancing intergenerational interaction and spatial privacy
Ensuring seamless connection among family members while avoiding mutual disturbance was a key difficulty. The team designed a 60-meter circular circulation path to weave through intergenerational interaction zones, enabling organic interweaving of children’s activity routes and adults’ behavioral trajectories; meanwhile, they implanted two-way acoustic speaker devices (inter-level acoustic dialogues)—these devices not only maintained the privacy of each space but also served as a physical medium for emotional connection, resolving the contradiction between “interaction” and “privacy”.

Challenge 3: Achieving precise implementation of complex artistic components
The petal-shaped ceiling, copper decorative pieces, and other custom components with complex shapes posed great challenges to construction accuracy. The team adopted BIM digital modeling and factory prefabrication technology: through digital simulation and industrialized prefabrication, they ensured the precise landing of these artistic components, realizing the in-depth unity of functional needs and artistic expression without compromising either.

What was your team’s highlight of the project?

The project stood out with multi-dimensional highlights covering aesthetics, space, technology, culture, and sustainability:

Aesthetic innovation: It constructed a contemporary living landscape integrating Eastern and Western aesthetics—by combining Art Deco decorative vocabulary with digital construction technology, and using parametric “flower” elements and dynamic light and shadow (realized through large-area floor-to-ceiling windows and skylights) to create a spatial experience with temporal depth.

Spatial intelligence: The “full-age adaptation” spatial planning achieved maximum functional efficiency—vertically, the dual-entry system clarified the division of communal and private functions; horizontally, the circular path connected study, fitness, and entertainment areas. The vertical reconstruction of the basement and ground floor redefined the value of each spatial layer.

Emotional connection design: The circular circulation path and cross-floor acoustic dialogue devices jointly built an intergenerational interaction network, turning the residence into a carrier of familial warmth while ensuring individual privacy.

Cultural expression: It took East Asian familial “coexistence” values as the core, broke the spatial separation between generations, and exported Asian residential wisdom through spatial narrative, forming a design paradigm with cultural recognition in the global context.

Sustainable practice: Adhering to the concept of “adaptive reuse”, it extended the building’s life cycle through structural transformation; optimized basement lighting and functionality with vertical expansion; reduced waste and construction period through prefabricated technology, and integrated into the mountainous environment with low-intervention measures.

Value creation: It established technical barriers through custom processes such as petal ceiling mold opening and acoustic device research and development, enhancing market premium capacity; and promoted the upgrading of high-end residential design standards through sophisticated circulation systems and full-age adaptation solutions.

Why did you enter the SBID Awards?

The SBID Awards are renowned for recognizing design works that integrate innovation, functionality, aesthetics, cultural connotation, and sustainability—attributes that the project fully embodies, making it a natural fit for the award’s evaluation philosophy:

It realizes the perfect integration of artistic inspiration (Neo-Impressionist “spatial pointillism”) and practical living needs, setting a benchmark for “aesthetically pleasing and functional” high-end residential design.

It innovatively solves the universal challenges of intergenerational living in contemporary families (such as balancing interaction and privacy, adapting to multi-age needs) through spatial planning and technical means, providing a replicable and promotional solution for residential design.

It seamlessly blends Eastern and Western aesthetics and inherits Asian residential culture, demonstrating how regional cultural values can be innovatively expressed in modern design, which aligns with the award’s emphasis on cultural diversity and design originality.

It achieves a win-win situation of commercial value (market premium), social value (community coordination, residential paradigm), and ecological value (sustainable practice), reflecting the multi-dimensional influence of outstanding design—an aspect highly valued by the SBID Awards.

By entering the awards, the team hopes to share this exploration of “poetic cohabitation integrating culture, technology, and nature” with the global design community, and contribute to the development of contemporary Asian residential design.

What has being an Award Finalist meant to you and your business?

Being a finalist for the SBID Awards is a profound recognition and valuable impetus for both the team and the business:

For the team: It is an affirmation of their professional capabilities in multiple fields—including artistic creativity (interpreting Neo-Impressionism in spatial design), technical innovation (BIM prefabrication, acoustic device development), and cultural insight (translating East Asian family values into space). It strengthens the team’s confidence in adhering to the concept of “people-oriented innovation” and encourages them to continue exploring the boundaries of residential design.

For the business: It significantly enhances the brand’s visibility and influence in the global design industry, especially in the field of high-end Asian residential design. The project’s positioning as a finalist proves the business’s ability to create works that balance cultural connotation, technical advancement, and market value—helping to attract more clients who pursue personalized, culturally rooted, and sustainable residential solutions. More importantly, it establishes the business as a pioneer in “integrating regional culture with modern residential design”, laying a solid foundation for further promoting Asian residential wisdom in the global design discourse.