Very Studio brings light to Taiwan's Sunny Apartment with vaulted ceiling
Arches spring up across the ceiling of this apartment in Taiwan, which Very Studio has overhauled to appear more bright and spacious.
Set within a residential block in the city of Taichung, the Sunny Apartment previously featured a light-starved living area with poor ventilation ? a majority of the home's windows had been isolated to the building's south elevation.
To make the 200-square-metre apartment more accommodating for a family of four, locally based Very Studio devised a design scheme that focused on three elements it felt defined the "essence of living": space, air and sound.
Partition walls have been rearranged to loosely form a pentagonal-shaped floor plan that angles sightlines towards the apartment's few windows.
The ceiling has been turned into a series of vaults, giving the impression of a taller and more lofty living room. Each arch has an internal timber frame that was cut using a CNC-milling machine.
"We wanted to create a shared space as one room, a space with fluidity. Therefore, we thought about modifying the level of the ceiling," the studio told Dezeen.
"We also wanted to erase the edge-line of the ceiling, then the idea for the domes appeared," it continued.
"[The clients] were wondering whether to accept the proposal ? they couldn't imagine the space just by drawings and renderings."
To ensure the new ceiling hadn't affected the sound quality throughout the apartment, the studio used Odeon ? a computer mode...
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