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design as narrative

design as clarity

design as quiet resistance

Core Design Workshop was founded on a belief that design is not an aesthetic exercise, but a form of thinking — a way to uncover the truths people often overlook. We approach each project as a narrative, a search for meaning shaped through space, material, and light.

In a time where information is abundant and certainty is instant, we choose to work differently:
we slow down, observe quietly, and listen to what is rarely voiced — memory, emotion, daily rituals, cultural nuance, the lived experience of a place.

Our work is defined not by style, but by intent.
A courtyard that becomes a moment of pause.
A wall that carries the weight of history.
A roofline that directs light rather than attention.
A space that reveals itself rather than performs.

We engage with clients through dialogue, questioning assumptions and uncovering what truly matters beneath surface wants. Every project, whether a home, an interior, or a small building, becomes an exploration of how people live, why they gather, and what they remember.

CDW collaborates with a network of registered professionals, consultants, and builders to bring these ideas into reality, ensuring that each work maintains the integrity of its concept while meeting every technical requirement.

We create spaces that are not simply lived in but felt, remembered, and understood.

核心设计工作室创立于一个信念:设计不是美学演练,而是一种思考方式, 一种揭示人们常忽视的本质真相的途径。

我们将每个项目视为一场叙事,通过空间、材质与光影的雕琢,探寻其中蕴藏的意义。

在这个信息泛滥、即时满足的时代,我们选择以不同的方式工作:放缓节奏,静心观察,聆听那些未被言说的存在——记忆的纹路,情感的涟漪,日常的仪式,文化的肌理,以及场所中真实的生活印记。

定义我们作品的不是风格,而是立意:
一方让人驻足凝息的庭院
一道承载历史厚度的墙垣
一处引导光线而非目光的屋檐
一个自然流露而非刻意表演的空间

我们通过对话与客户共同探索,在表层需求之下叩问本质。无论是住宅、室内还是小型建筑,每个项目都成为对生活方式的探源:人们如何居住,为何相聚,又将铭记什么。

核心设计工作室与注册专业人士、顾问及施工团队协同合作,在满足所有技术要求的同时,确保每个作品始终保持设计理念的纯粹性。

我们创造的空间,不止用于栖居, 更值得被感知、被铭记、被读懂。

Director – Architecture + Design 

Chun Hooi TAN    | 陳炯暉

BSc Architecture
MSc Computer Aided Building Design
Strathclyde UK

A multi-disciplinary design practice based in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, Core Design Workshop was founded by architectural designer Chun Hooi TAN in year 2009.

Chun Hooi Tan holds a MSc in Computer Aided Building Design and BSc in Architecture from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and Queen’s University of Belfast, UK with field of expertise in architectural and spatial design, a field which focuses on the relationship between architecture, design and mankind, with creativity as a point of departure.

As a specialist in spatial design, he has explored deeply into spatial organisation and all its human implications. He holds strongly that the more rapidly organisations, patterns of living and local traditions are disrupted, the more awareness is needed. Chun Hooi investigated the mutual relations between physical and social spaces, including Spatial Organisation, Interior Design and Microarchitecture. His design works are always on a human scale that relate to subjects of relevance to society and its social, cultural and environmental issues.

核心设计工作室坐落于马来西亚梳邦再也城,由建筑设计师陈炯晖于2009年创立。

陈炯晖先后在英国斯特拉斯克莱德大学与贝尔法斯特女王大学深造,获建筑计算机辅助设计硕士学位及建筑学学士学位。其专业领域聚焦建筑与空间设计,始终以创造性为出发点,探索建筑、设计与人文之间的深层联结。

作为空间设计领域的专家,他对空间组织及其人文意蕴有着深刻研究。他坚信,在组织模式、生活形态与地域传统加速变革的时代,愈需要唤醒空间感知的自觉。陈炯晖长期关注物质空间与社会空间的互动关系,研究范畴涵盖空间组织、室内设计与微建筑建构。他的设计始终秉持人文尺度,作品始终呼应着社会的脉动,映现当代文化图景与环境议题的思考。