Daisy
Daisy is a minimalist apartment located in Taipei, Taiwan, designed by ST Design Studio. The public zone is organized around a singular sculptural volume finished in light earthy texture, its rough surface set against glossy dark tiles at its base. This deliberate material contrast allows the element to command attention within an otherwise clean palette, functioning simultaneously as a television wall on the living side and a storage unit at the entrance. The curved corner where the cabinet meets the circulation path reveals careful attention to spatial flow – a softened geometry that guides movement rather than interrupting it.
The kitchen anchors the entire plan. Grey metal cabinetry and a dark island sit at the heart of the apartment, positioned alongside a dining table that faces outward toward the balcony. This is the brightest and most open zone, designed around the couple’s love of cooking and entertaining. A mirrored stainless steel range hood performs a subtle trick – reflecting the terrace greenery and dissolving the boundary between interior domesticity and exterior landscape. It is the kind of detail that elevates functional hardware into a spatial device, recalling the way Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has used reflective surfaces to dematerialize architectural boundaries.
The hallway is where the apartment reveals its true narrative ambition. Rather than treating circulation as residual space, ST Design Studio transforms it into a threshold experience – a passage from public to private, from bright to serene, from social to intimate. Green, the client’s favorite color and the only chromatic presence in the apartment, saturates this corridor in varying textures and depths. A deep green, raw-textured wall integrates with a green marble bar top that extends the full length of the hallway, creating material continuity through tonal variation. The bathroom at the corridor’s end is sheathed in a thin emerald-green frosted finish that catches sunlight and shimmers like lake water – a poetic resolution to the color journey that began at the hallway’s entrance.