Apartment in Zen Style on Taiwan

The interior of a 270-square-meter apartment designed by Wei Yi International Design Associates for a mature and affluent client on Taiwan fully reflects the inner world of its owner.

Red, yellow, and blue are colors traditionally chosen to highlight the majestic character of an interior. Architects opted for a color palette dominated by blue tones, as its calm elegance and deep sensuality perfectly convey the sense of inner satisfaction rooted more in spiritual than material aspects.

Materials painted in muted tones, such as exposed concrete, gray, almost black plywood, together with individual accents of subdued color—like the red wall cabinet in the living room—create a space that embodies the perfection of imperfection and the beauty of irregularity.

The large blue dining room wall with a rough surface takes the shape of the Chinese character "ㄇ". The partition separating the apartment's entrance area serves not only as a spatial divider but also as a spiritual boundary between earthly life and the 'Pure Land' of Buddhist doctrine.

From a technical standpoint, architects based their spatial planning on the rationality of modernism, while from a spiritual perspective, they drew upon key concepts central to Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism: 'Zen' and 'Wabi-Sabi'. Modern Western minimalism seamlessly merged with the simplicity of Sung Dynasty aesthetics in this project.

Photos: Hey!Cheese