This tiny 592 sq ft apartment situated in Taipei, Taiwan, has been recently redesigned by A Little Design.

Description
This is a 10-year-old apartment with two storeys and the total area of it is about 55 m2. It was firstly used as an office and once converted into a living unit for a single-person. The new owners, our clients, are a young couple with a one-year-old child. The 55m2 living space in the central area of Taipei City might be luxury for a single occupant, but for a three-member family, this is still a miniature apartment. In the renovation project, the baby’s growth should be especially taken into consideration for it would change the needs of the family a lot in the next 10 years.
The division of the functions in the apartment is quite simple. On the vertical arrangement, the upper layer is for private spaces, and the lower is for communal spaces. On the horizontal partition, except for the entrance and the balconies, the plan of each floor is roughly a rectangle of about 3.6m x 7.2m. So naturally, each floor plan could be divided into two main square areas and further, subdivided into different functions by the 7 sliding doors. Therefore, when the all sliding doors in the apartment are opened, the spaces are completely open and continuous. The walkways connecting the spaces are also given their own functions, so no aisle space is wasted. However, in some individual using states, each area could be separated by the sliding doors, reducin...