Louver Flat
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Completion: 2021
Budget: NTD. 260K/坪

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.

The specific apartment of our clients' has continuous window openings on Southwest side of the building. We proposed to create a corridor instead of series of rooms along those openings to introduce natural light and ventilation for better comfort, health and mood.

In response to the awkwardness through series of windows adjacent to the neighbor building while keeping the mentioned benefits, we installed custom-made louvers with groove patterns in various orientations lacquered in an uplifting yellow to improve privacy.

We rendered the interior for a soothing and elegant fashion. Wide plank Douglas-fir flooring with natural finish gives a warm texture and extends the visual continuity through the flat.

An open kitchen with a working balcony full of lush trees gives a lively depth in contrast to an enclosed kitchen layout before renovation.

Each bathroom carries unique design. The ensuite bathroom features Carrara marble mosaics and trims which along with Nickel plated hardware for an exquisite modern luxury.

Raw rattan screens as a reinterpreted traditional local craftmanship on master suite doors and wardrobe doors further emphasize the natural interior ambience which gives natural vibes and calms the anxious souls often found in urban dwellers.

The result is rather pleasing than using curtains or films for its versatility. One can slide and play with pattern overlap to create different illuminating quality.

The 1,345 sqft apartment has one master suite on the other side of the living room as well as a quaint study with custom-made steel shelves and lacquered cherry wood desk tops.

The corridor connects living room, a teenager's bedroom and a bathroom with an open balcony. We planted lush greens for little gardening to be viewed and accessed from the corridor or bathroom, which gives a pleasant bathing experience.

The guest bathroom features a circular plan in which we resurfaced it with custom-made green hue fireclay tiles. Dark metallic finish hardware and CNC milled sink-integrated countertop and glossy kaki green lacquered cabinets together characterize a quaint and elegant space for an elevated daily washroom experience.

Louver Flat GA Plan