试读已结束，请付费阅读全文。
本文只能试读49%,付费后可阅读全文。
|
In Hong Kong, living space is a precious commodity so making the most out of relatively limited square footage is essential for local interior designers. For this recently renovated apartment in a PokFuLam high-rise, a residential area on Hong Kong Island, interior & branding design company OFGA has gone one step further. Striking a graceful balance between openness and privacy, the apartment has been designed as an unfolding canvas where the continuity of space is as important as aesthetic uniformity. The result is a gem of an apartment, conceived as a layered spatial composition of minimalist elegance and modern comforts. With a footprint of only 70 square metres,the dense compartmentalization of the old layout created a cluster of several small rooms that the designers have wisely rejected in favour of an open-plan strategy that nevertheless values privacy. As the designers eloquently explain, “the question is not whether we choose to adapt an open plan, but how we open the plan”. The answer to this question was to divide the apartment in two unified zones—a living area that includes the kitchen and a bedroom area that also comprises the bathroom—each one notionally subdivided according to function, and crucially without any further spatial fragmentation. 
Photo by Effie Yang. 
In order to achieve this kind of layered privacy, the designers turned to architectural historian Colin Rowe and his concept of “phenomenal transparency”, the kind of transparency that is neither literal nor inherent but spatially construed. In practical term |
