A team of talented designers from LGCA DESIGN created this intimate and welcoming apartment for a couple in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Staying true to the owners’ requirements, they made sure that the abode would feature a high degree of practicality without forgetting about privacy and comfort. The living room is an elongated and narrow space that flaunts high ceilings and receives natural illumination vertically.
The private living areas and the public ones are separated for privacy purposes and boast different finishes. For example, the intimate rooms have wooden floors while the social spaces come with tiles. During the designing process, the architects noticed that the living room’s TV wall needed more space and so they decided to create an oblique partition wall in the bathroom that extends to the bedroom’s ceiling in order to give off a feeling of extra space. The upper level is accessed via a staircase and comprises a studio and a study room.
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From the architect:
Besides fulfilling the house owners’ requirement for practical functions, we design a space exclusively for the couple in a simple and neat way.
Although the space is long and narrow, we make the living room into a high-ceiling space so that the natural light can enter the interior space vertically and extensively. Without any division, the whole space is distinguished through floors in different materials and height. For example, the public space is made of tiles while the private space is made of wooden floor. Walking over the floor, one can feel the relaxing atmosphere through different textures.
Besides, to enlarge the area of the TV wall in the living room, the partition wall of the bathroom is oblique and extends to the ceiling of the bedroom so that the space looks larger than its actual size, seemingly more spacious. Diverse mixture of building materials such as the grey glare combined with wooden materials creates multiple layers of feelings to the space.
Besides, we take advantage of the top floor area to create a space of an individual study and studio so that the couple can still keep their privacy without disturbing the other and have the freedom of being alone while enjoying the company with each other.