A Light-Filled Home to Grow Old

An innovative senior-oriented design is created as the owners’ lifestyle shifts. To bring the retirement home closer to nature, a diagonal layout improves the light flow, glass doors and an enlarged balcony invite light and air in, and plants and natural materials fill the apartment with vitality. Valuing the owners’ memory interwoven with space, we turn the old-fashioned furniture elements into new homeware with weaved rattan. Materials like wood and bricks are used to enhance the comfort of living, without the need for meticulous maintenance, traces of use add a bit of uniqueness and make the house a guardian of the residents' fuller lives.
To overcome the height limitation and narrow configuration, we diagonally cut the bedroom and combine glass doors to build an open space. The beam in the living room is turned into a key visual, while sunlight, air and plants invite vitality into the barrier-free retirement home.
Design echoes the owners’ memory, features the benefits of raw materials and blends the industrial style with spatial layers arranged by the shades and proportions of materials. By exposing the beam in the living room, the eyesore is transformed into a centerpiece.