The place of meditation and self-healing

At the end of May 2020, the design team met the client Ms. Chen in Abba Forest for the first time. She has lived on this mountain since she was young. Over the past 30 years, the mountains were full of real estate development. Ms. Chen can no longer to see her hometown destroyed. She bought the last undeveloped piece of land on the mountainside. She established the Abba Forest and the Educational Foundation to protect the animals and plants of this forest with love. Let animals and plants grow and thrive in their own way without being disturbed by the outside world.

It is the kind of fate that made Ms. Chen who likes to protect nature hand this case over to the design team. This is an apartment located on the first floor, with open and independent front and back yards. The client hopes to combine the indoor space with the front and back courtyard landscape. She can do yoga, painting, singing bowl healing and music creating in the apartment. The design team set the theme as a place for meditation and self-healing.

The design team set the front yard into a floating water garden. The backyard is built into a natural world of ferns and vanilla. Under this design theme, the design team connects the piano room and the outer space of the master bedroom in an elevated platform. The piano room with 90 degree window view is built as a contemplative corner with oak as the sky and teak as the ground. The platform space in front of the master bedroom is shaped as a semi-outdoor yoga space. Ms. Chen can sit or lie down here, listen to the sound of the water, meditate or do outdoor yoga.

In the interior space, in accordance with the client’s preference for nature, the design team used a variety of natural materials. But the design team excluded tropical rain forest species. The materials used in this case include Taiwan native species of wood, stone, wood wool cement board, rattan, cotton, linen, etc.