KOA Apartment

KOA Apartment

Marty Chou Architecture

KOA Apartment

STATUS
Built

AREA
0 sqft - 1000 sqft

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Taiwan

TYPE
Residential › Apartment

KOA Apartment

This is an atypical home. It is a space that reflects the life of a unique urban family in its current stage.

The entire area of 90m² is completely open. Surrounded on four sides are hidden cabinets and a strip of deep-recessed windows.

KOA Apartment
KOA Apartment

At the center is a 3.5-meter countertop. The countertop is the anchor of the space and serves as a multi-functional table.

The recessed windows receive constant northern-light at day, and become private sleeping quarters when closed at night.

The sanitary space and its pieces are the play of geometrical volume and framed-view composition.

KOA Apartment
KOA Apartment
KOA Apartment

The countertop and furniture, with their abstract appearance, resemble stone slab, woodblock, and clay. We treated them as sculptures in the space.

There is no definite spatial division within the space, as if one could do anything anywhere.The owner is a young couple, a little daughter, and an upcoming baby.

They wish for a home that is freed from norm and is defined by their notion. This is how they brief me the first time we met:

KOA Apartment
KOA Apartment
KOA Apartment

“At this stage of our life, the space for sleeping, seating, eating and sanitary can be stripped down to the bare essentials.

“At this stage of our life, the space for sleeping, seating, eating and sanitary can be stripped down to the bare essentials.

“At this stage of our life, the space for sleeping, seating, eating and sanitary can be stripped down to the bare essentials.

KOA Apartment


KOA Apartment
KOA Apartment


KOA Apartment