Home╱Soulfulness

住宅╱意識寓所　

As a result of their similarity in mindset, the owner frequently shares her opinions with designer Hung potung on artists, works of art, and favorite spaces and furniture. He learned about her preferences through the conversation and then figured out the appearance and ambience of the house. Regarding to the space, the owner was particularly fond of a kind of paint during travel and hoped to add it into the design, thus the material was set at the very beginning.

A space can reflect a person’s personality, and the “Soulfulness” space shows that the owner possesses both firmness and softness with rationality in sensibility. From the wide living room to the connecting dining room and the angled kitchen, the traditional layout is transformed into a funnel shape, making the corner corridor created by special angle become the most distinctive area of the house. The design of the wide and flat wooden board integrated with the stable Silestone embedded in the wall located in the kitchen island on the corridor demonstrates the interaction between the stone and the paint. The study room behind the corridor placed an independent desks and bookshelves with notches interpreting the complementarity of paint and wood.

The bookshelf, which is also embedded in the wall, is covered in mineral paint, and its interior is filled with old wooden boards with cutting marks. These wooden boards were used as cutting boards in marble factories while cutting stone slabs with water jets. To avoid excessive shrinkage of the board in the future due to long-term immersion in water, dried waste cutting boards are specially collected, cut into small pieces of wood, and then assembled into a natural symphony to set off books and objects. At the same time, on the living room TV wall, there are also wood nicks with rough and neat surface between the smooth ceiling and the ground, just like the character of the space itself.

Rounded corners bring the house a soft appearance. The concave corner cabinets are used to create practical storage in the curved walls, combining design with life in an invisible way. Such a combination of rigidity and softness is similar to the paper chandelier presented by Italy Lightplus in the dining room; the warm yellow paper precisely layered creates a soft yet striking visual highlight, echoing the owner’s personality. Visitors can recognize the radiance between the home and the owner, which is the actual connotation of “Soulfulness” in the vocabulary and spirit. It can be fully interpreted through space design.

因為頻率相近，屋主常與設計師洪博東分享她對什麼有興趣，包括藝術家、藝術品以及喜歡的空間和家具，藉由對談間了解她的喜好，進而揣摩出家的模樣與味道。對於空間的想法，屋主因爲一次旅行住宿的經驗，認識了比利時塗料而相當喜歡，希望可以放入本次設計，因而在材質方面最初便有了定調。

若說空間可以看出一個人的個性，那麼「Soulfulness」的空間表現在感性中挾有理性，體現屋主的剛柔並濟。破除制式格局的空間處理，使公領域呈現漏斗形狀，從寬敞、相連的客廳和餐廳來到斜放的廚房，因為角度創造出來的轉角廊道，成為這隅家空間最具特色的地方。參與在廊道之中的中島廚房，寬大扁平的木板結合穩固賽利石中島台座的造型設計，嵌入牆面，呈現石頭與塗料若即若離的關係。而位居廊道後的書房，則以獨立書桌和充滿刻痕的書架演繹塗料與木材的相輔相成。

同樣嵌入牆面的書架，外框塗滿礦物塗料，書架內部則是充滿切割痕跡的老舊木板。這些木板是大理石工廠用水刀切割石板時，用以墊在底部的砧板，因長期浸水，為避免後日板材過度收縮，所以特地收集已經乾燥完成的廢砧板，裁成小型木材，再拼湊成襯托書籍與物品的自然語彙；同時，在客廳電視牆面，光滑的天花板與地面之間亦夾入粗糙的木板刻痕，時而粗獷，時而細緻，一如空間本身的性格。

圓弧、曲面牆角為家帶來柔軟的面容，在部分弧形牆面裡，運用內凹直角櫃體創造了實用收納，將設計結合生活於無形，如此剛柔並濟的設計手法，正如同餐廳那盞義大利Lightplus的和紙吊燈，溫暖的黃色紙張在俐落有致的堆疊之下，散發出溫柔卻仍有力道的視覺亮點，一再呼應居住者的性格，連朋友來訪都能辨識出家與主人之間的輝映，正是「Soulfulness」詞彙上，與精神上的實際內涵，透過空間設計，完整詮釋。