stories gives meaning to any design and I thought when is located next to the
forest we should create a tree house because of something that was quite
dreamy and the same time very cozy
the apartment is located in the middle of Hong Kong there's not much of
greenery area especially in the center of the city so we actually really
treasured a moment when we actually have an opportunity to build an apartment
next to the hillside this apartment is 33 square meters for the interior four
square meters for the balcony I live in the apartment with my dog and
we each have our own corners the apartment is about three years ago at
that time his one-bedroom apartment and what I've done here is I demolished
petitioning wall and built a tree house after we you kind of break the wall it
created like a panoramic view that frames the outside I think a lot of the
challenges comes in to like working with the existing built that is being
provided by the apartment that when I purchase for the kitchen they made it
out of brass and wood and that's why I want to keep it because there's a already
a very nice kitchen we only have like a simple dark blue color to echoes the
kitchen to highlight the gold and not having overtly too blink and at the same
time put in a few elements which is custom that is gold also like the Tom
Dixon light adjacent to the sofa a lot of people saying that in a small apartment
you shouldn't be using very dark colors it's really kind of depends on what kind of
situation you are in if you're trying to frame the view of the outside so the
outside should take presents as opposed to the inside it actually helps you
connect yourself to the outside
I bought and a patricia Urquiola terracotta tiles and clad the outskirt
of it and it worked perfectly with the timber frame also the dark and the light
is about creating sequences downstairs of the treehouse is only six foot and
upstairs four foot it actually allows me to host dinner parties below the tree
house when you get up to the tree house all side of the walls including the
ceiling is all clad in Pinewood and when you're inside the space you have a
really tiny slip of window that kind of looks out into the forest feels really
cozy one side of the was part of the closets so what I did to the closet is
the lower part I clad it in in paints that matched the dark blue paint
downstairs so when you're in the lower level you feel like you're in one space
but when you actually get to the upper level it's all kinda and timber so you
already feel like you're in another space because they want to minimize any
vertical element in the kitchen they've divided it into two under counter or
fridge so one is the freezer and the other one is just a normal fridge
it is very quiet living next to forest and it's very convenient because it's in
the middle of Hong Kong and is nice to actually be able to look into something
other than concrete in Hong Kong so we really want to treasure this that kind
of view when you're in here