Home, Art Gallery

If one listens to Degree Design's Tseng Chih Hao talk about his first home, it's easy to perceive from his words that he has a clear vision of the home contours. He came to Taipei from Chungli, Taoyuan to study in high school and started his journey by renting a house. After years of experience, he has developed a clear idea of where and what type of space he wanted to buy as his own abode in the future. The 4.3m high residential space with a small outdoor terrace perfectly fits the needs. Through his design expertise, he has transformed the space to create the first home he had always wished for.

The home is designed with full freedom and experimental spirit, and the concepts, methods and materials that could not be implemented in the past are realized in this project. Tseng Chih Hao has turned his home into a showpiece. With white as the background, he boldly combined paint, island wood flooring, tile, iron and wood veneer to enhance the brightness of the space through the fusion of simple colors and design, demonstrating the image and style of degree design. The lightness of the sunlight filtering through the window screen is his favorite view. He aspired to create a modern and comfortable atmosphere like an art museum, so that the accumulated fatigue of the whole day can be dissipated with the pure and open space, and the leisure time can be spent relaxing and lazing in the rainy afternoons. This kind of spontaneity and freedom is the sense of life he is seeking to pursue.

“I've had a dream since I was a kid that I would have a spinning staircase in my house.” Tseng Chih Hao shyly smiles and shares how attractive the ritual of going down the spiral staircase was to him. On the other hand, he rationalized that the spiral staircase is more space-saving than the inclined staircase in a small space. The original inclined staircase combined with the TV wall brought a sense of oppression to the space. After the design renovation, the vertical rotating staircase is simple and elegant, and moved to the side of the sofa, releasing the height of the ceiling to open up the view of the room, so that the bright sunlight can come in with the large floor-to-ceiling window view and brighten the space. The ceiling/floor that will be passed by the upstairs is slightly curved to make the movement smoother and more comfortable. When the home is conceived as a "museum", every single piece of furniture in the room is transformed into art by the designer's hands. The deep pine and cypress ink marble center island, the carved purple coffee table and side table draw out the simplicity of the square, while the rotating ladder lingers between the top and bottom with a rounded touch. The geometric elements are used to build life on the beauty in the modern and simple frame volume.

To enlarge the space, the same white color was used for the ceiling, floor and walls. Mirrors were added at the entrance and the upstairs dressing room to reflect the reality. The flooring is made of cool white Mortex with relatively warm wood veneer, as in the case of the storage cabinets, the wooden flooring on the second floor, and the asymmetrical wooden end view above the bed, to soften the coldness and enhance the natural texture of the space. At the same time, designer lighting is used to decorate the space, with light GUBI white chandeliers in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows to avoid obscuring the view. The Flos red chandelier is used above the bed to echo the carved purple stone, as if the contemporary design is a collection of the house's art museum, and every corner of the space is an end view. The apartment where two people live together, the two bicycles hanging on the wall, the figures making siphon coffee and breakfast in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, and the gesture of going downstairs around the spiraling staircase are all behavioral art flowing in the daily life, which are collected in this pure white museum house.

家，藝廊

本案挑高四米三、擁有戶外小露台的住宅空間，便完美地符合需求，他透過自身設計專業進行改造，捏塑出心中嚮往的第一個家。

自宅設計，擁有全權發揮的自由，以及飽滿的實驗性精神，彼些過去無法執行的概念、作法、材質都在本案一一實現。曾致豪將自宅當作實品屋，以白色為背景，大膽地結合塗料、海島型木地板、磁磚、鐵件、木皮等眾多材質，透過簡純的顏色與設計相互融合，加增空間明亮感，演示向度設計的形象與風格。陽光篩濾窗紗之輕透朦朧，是他最喜歡的家端景。對於家的嚮往，他期許創造出美術館般現代、愜意的舒適氣息，讓累積整日的疲憊，皆隨著純粹而開放的空間煙消雲散，閒暇時候放鬆身心，慵懶地度過下雨的午後，此般隨性自在便是他期盼追尋的生活感。

「我從小有個夢想，就是家裡一定要有旋轉梯。」曾致豪一邊不好意思地笑著分享沿著旋轉梯下來的儀式感有多麼吸引他，另一邊亦理性分析，在小坪數空間中，旋轉梯相較於斜樓梯更為節省空間。原本的斜樓梯結合電視牆為空間帶來壓迫感，經設計改造後，垂直的旋轉樓梯簡練、優雅，並將位置移動到沙發旁，釋放出天花板的挑高優勢，開展室內觀景視野，使燦陽隨偌大落地窗景襲來，敞亮空間。稍微以弧形削去上樓會經過的天花板／地板，動線更為流暢舒適。當居家以「美術館」為概念，室內每一件家具單品皆在設計師手裡幻化為藝術，深松柏墨色大理石中島，雕刻紫茶几、邊几引現方形之簡，而旋轉梯則於上下間縈繞圓形之潤。在現代簡練的框架量體中，利用幾何元素將生活構築於美感之上。

為放大空間，天地壁使用同一白色系，並在玄關入口處、樓上更衣間等處加入鏡面，運用反射效果輝映虛實。地坪塗料選用冷白色Mortex，搭配相對溫暖的木皮做空間層次分割，一如收納櫃體，二樓木地板，以及不對稱的床頭木質端景，緩和冷峻，提升空間自然肌理。同時，亦選用設計師燈飾點綴空間，落地窗前以輕盈的GUBI白色吊燈，避免遮蔽視線，床頭則選用Flos紅色吊燈呼應雕刻紫石材，儼然納當代設計為自宅美術館的館藏，空間每隅皆是端景。兩人共同生活的公寓，掛於牆上的兩台腳踏車，落地窗前煮虹吸式咖啡、做早餐的身影，繞著旋轉梯下樓的姿態，亦都是流動於日常中的行為藝術，典藏於這座純白的美術館自宅。