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Narrative Art
"Lighting was at the forefront of our considerations," designer Jasper Chang commented on the project, focusing on a home's emotional presence. Even though it is a residential space, the young homeowners are aesthetically conscious. They desire an avant-garde and uncharted design, with particular emphasis on the textures and storytelling of the materials.
Therefore, for this project, the space utilizes "sidelights" to narrate a story. In terms of layout, the interior space of some 47 pings is plotted into three rooms and two chambers, employing an open design approach to extend the dynamic lines and enable light to cascade through them. In terms of the end view composition, viewing from the perspective of the first space to the second space stacked in the background reveals details worth exploring, as if one were gazing into a Western painting. At the entrance, one can already witness the expression of this technique. The beige gray upright cabinet is designed with a hollowed-out middle section, which extends the view to the back dining room and extends the depth of field, bringing light into the kitchen between the real and the virtual and adding interactivity to the space.
While the living room is an exclusive setting for relatives to gather, the dining room is vital for the two to work at home, with two semi-open areas with entirely different attributes converging across the dynamic transitions. The end wall next to the sofa in the living room and the gray cabinet at the bottom forms a straight corridor with linear wall sconces and woven fabric cabinetry at each end. They were reflecting the light from the sides of the space against the wide wall in the foreground in linear order, adding layers to the simple lines of the scene. The dining room's backdrop utilizes gray marble to enclose a still-life painting on the warm-colored wall and a recessed display window. With the addition of iron shelves, the color shades portray a sense of three-dimensionality akin to a pencil sketch, an architectural approach to the quiet vocabulary of life, and a statement of aesthetics and functionality, achieving handcrafted decorative works of art between the movement and stillness of the objects collected by the occupants. The dining table and the kitchen island form a long tabletop, with dark square corners corresponding to the large dark wood veneer wall on the side. "This volume is the largest wall in the space and can set off the material above," Jasper Chang shares that he chose this material because he wanted to create a background for the home, to highlight the contours of the furniture forms, and let the objects stand out from the environment.
From the way clothes are arranged in the dressing room, the couple's ritualistic approach to life can be seen. Upon returning to the space sometime after completion, the designers found that the interior was the same as when it was first completed. This was not deliberate on the part of the owners but rather a part of their daily life. Following the designer's efficient systematization of household items, the visualization of the home can be presented, responding to the initial conversation about the design goal of aesthetics. Each home area gradually becomes visible under light sources by sorting out the temporal lighting logistics. In contrast, in the shallow and obscure natural side lighting, the textures of special coatings are hidden, narrating the story of a home.
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「光線選擇是我們放在很前面的考量」設計師張子軒談起這件作品,著重於家的情緒呈現。雖然是住宅空間,但是年輕的業主夫妻相當講究美感,期許設計朝向前衛、沒有人嘗試過的方向進行,著重材料的紋理與故事性。因而於本案裡,空間引用「側光」述說著場景故事。從平面格局而言,大約47坪的室內面積規劃成三房兩廳,運用開放設計手法延展動線,使光線串流於其間。在端景構圖上,透過第一空間視角,看向堆疊於背景的第二空間,儼然猶如觀賞西洋藝術畫般,在受人矚目的焦點人物背後,總是潛藏著值得探究的細節。在玄關之處,便能看見此一手法的呈現。米灰色的直立櫃體中段採用鏤空設計,穿透視線延伸至後端餐廳,亦延長了景深,虛實之間,將光線帶入到廚房,也為空間增添了互動性。客廳是親戚來訪時共聚一堂的專屬場域,餐廳則是兩人居家工作時的重要空間,完全不同屬性的兩個半開放區域,在動線轉折之間銜接。客廳沙發旁的端牆,與底端灰色櫃體連成筆直的走廊,兩端各以線形壁燈和編織面料的櫃體予以輝映,從空間散映出來的側光,溫柔地緩照於上,在線條序列的前景寬牆對比下,為簡練的場景線條挹注了層次。
餐廳背景利用灰色大理石在暖調牆面框出一幅靜物畫,此處實為一處內凹的收納展示牆,有了鐵件層架的輔助,顏色深淺亦如鉛筆素描刻繪出立體感,以建築手法操作成生活的寧靜語彙,並陳美學與機能,在居住者收藏物件的動靜之間,也成就一件手工的裝飾藝術。餐桌和中島共組成悠長的桌面,底部的深色方塊桌角,對應一旁偌大深色木皮牆,「這個量體是空間裡最大的牆面,可以襯托前述材料」張子軒分享當時之所以選擇這個材料,是希望打造出家的背景,以彰顯家具形體的輪廓,讓物體從背景脫穎而出。從更衣間擺放衣物的方式,即可察覺業主夫妻講究生活的儀式感。當空間完成後一段時間,設計師再回到這裡,發現室內皆與當初剛完工的時候一樣整潔、乾淨,然此並非業主夫妻刻意而為之,而是他們的日常即是如此,在設計師有效率地以系統化區分、收納家庭物品後,家的視覺就可以呈現得很簡單,回應最初討論講究美感的設計目標,在梳理過時間邏輯的照明計畫中,家的每個領域將隨著光源漸顯清晰,然於淺而隱晦的自然側光裡,特殊塗料的紋理若隱若現,以景敘事,而成家。
