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2025 | Professional

French Design Awards Gold Winner

Discreet Opulence

Entrant Company

SGY Studio

Category

Interior Design - Living Spaces

Client's Name

Country / Region

Taiwan

Conceived for a young family of four with demanding schedules, the residence strives to choreograph domestic life through coherence rather than display, allowing the home to evolve as the children grow. Vision privileges behavior and comfort over ornament, establishing an environment that moderates complexity with calm structure and subtle warmth.

The second floor is designated as the daily core, where living, dining, and study dissolve into one another through a sequence of soft thresholds. A top‑hung glass partition is specified to calibrate the relationship between kitchen and dining, preserving sightlines for supervision while tempering sound and cooking activity. All thresholds are detailed as flush to reduce trip hazards and keep movement effortless from toddlers to adults.

Storage acts as architecture. Full‑height, matte cabinetry reads as part of the envelope, setting a measured vertical cadence that absorbs belongings into coherent planes. Integrated pulls, concealed lighting tracks, and consistent reveals hold the visual field steady, lowering cognitive noise and supporting an atmosphere of composed utility.

Sustainability is embedded in method rather than added as a feature. Early in planning, the scheme retained the developer‑installed kitchen units and the elevator wall, calibrating palette, proportional alignment, and datum lines to integrate these inherited elements within the overall composition. Material choices reinforce the quiet register of the home: low‑sheen laminates, light wood veneers, and tempered glass that softens reflection. The outcome is not theatrical. It is a balanced framework for care, work, and rest, where proximity and privacy coexist and where family life can expand or contract without the architecture losing its poise.

Credits

SGY Studio
TU YUN-HSIEN
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