Within a newly developed area of Taipei City, constructions are booming but on the other hand create ever more concrete jungles in the neighborhood. Residential towers are butted to each other or sitting face to face which lead to certain discomfort for flat owners. We redesigned the flat with carefully designed and executed interventions to tackle this issue for an airy and refreshing atmosphere with desired natural lighting quality and improvement of ventilation as well as optimized allocation for private and shared spaces in which the clients may better enjoy home yoga and other family activities given spending more time at home during the pandemics.

This penthouse located in Chaozhou, a city with a long history. Sitting on the top of a tall building, the apartment enjoys a full view of the river and a 270-degree view of natural landscapes in Shantou, Chaozhou and Jieyang. The simple residential structure and favorable natural resources gave the design team much freedom to conceive the home.

Open layout, coupled with minimalist restrained aesthetics and large areas of blank surfaces, reveals a sense of serenity and inclusiveness. White color shades produce a background for highlighting the owner and his hobbies, and also create a calming home that evokes a restrained state of mind.

Letting the limited light flow in the space, making use of the materials to create a coherent and light-serving space atmosphere, is the main design subject except for plane configuration. Micro-cement and walnut set tone for the space, supplemented by glass, stainless steel to connect the space. Both people and light can flow freely in the space.

The opening and closing of the space are like water channels, crisscrossing with a free and harmonious network of people, light, material and space.

We grasp a suitable degree of connection between the respective functional fields, and consciously create the interest of communication between the fields through the living habits of the owners, such as angles within sight. We try to influence family activities and opportunities for emotional communication through limited spatial relationships, so that every bit of life can present the true emotions of space.

The interior of this design contains 75% white space. A large area of white space on the wall and white cabinet make the sense of sight feeling pure and concise. Different color of the floor of each space is the emblem of resident’s identity. Seamless gray floor in the public domain no only accentuates the using of the place, but it also be a dye to balance the color in the space.

The shadow cast by the light into the interior draw the outlines of all objects in the space, increasing the three-dimensional effect and creating a simple and powerful sense of space.