Through the window, the sunshine pierced through, entering one’s daily living. The curved elements introduced for the cabinets under the low ceiling in the hallway were for leading and extending the vision so as to greatly reduce the pressure of low ceiling. When it comes to the configuration of tiny space, we highlighted the mixture of storage space and beauty.

Embedded into the wall, the storage space also served as a coherent room for kitchen ware and TV, echoing the relationship between the kitchen island and dining table, flawlessly redefining the traces of space users, with sunlight shuttling along these traces.

The unit has the inherent advantage with practicable partitions.

To maintain privacy, we have opened up a foyer, built a shoe cabinet and a concrete counter with a fireplace installation in front of the main door, and a small storage area behind a full-length mirror. The external wall has been outlined into rounded corners to add an aesthetic sense to the lines. Besides, we have worked on the kitchen layout to double its space.

The now-open kitchen is connected to a kitchen island and the living room. With this ingenious design, the overall visual space beheld is not affected by the structure between the door and the living room. Instead, it has become the limelight of the whole unit.

Dubbed as Diamond-shape living rooms, the small apartments in Hong Kong sometimes come with a lot of unpleasant acute angles, which to a great extent hinders how the space is efficiently utilized. However, such a unique design challenge can oftentimes create unique and novel interior spaces. In this entry, just like polishing a precious gem, we carefully chip away all the sharp angles, refashion all the partition walls, and free up the usable living spaces.

The major intervention is the L shape partition wall that cuts through the apartment in half. It leads the owners and visiting friends to a series of different spaces. Like walking down a modern art gallery, the textures, color forms next to you change with each step you take, from light grey to olive green, to white and beige; from squares, to ovals, to arches and spheres.

Music is the theme, the staircase is the main spindle, the handrail and the curved wall form the treble notation in the score, and the handrail is also deliberately outlined in the sheet music, the steps of the spiral staircase naturally form piano keys. Starting from the music area, holding the sheet music, step on the piano keys, pass through the treble notation, follow the wood veneer, as if the music flows in every conner, echoing the trilogy formed by the three level spaces.