The project of a modern home in Taipei signed by Waterform studio seems to want to answer a peculiar question: What happens when the words of the masters lose their sacredness and become pop slogans? In the more than 700 square meters of this luxurious architecture surface it expressed through a language that, in a parallel with the music world, could be called rap, some of the guiding principles that have marked the history of the architectural discipline in the last hundred years. The watchwords of the modern icons such as Mies van der Rohe or Le Corbusier, have been wantonly cut and remixed to give life to a rich body of ideas, hard to understand at first glance, and, above all, blatantly exhibitionist.
From the choice of the name, Le plan libre, the designer Nic Lee, founding partner of the firm based in Taiwan and Shanghai, denounces his debt to the Swiss master Le Corbusier, who in the 20s of last century professed the liberation of architectural space from the rigid constraints of the structure. And 'so that in the interior modern house is on three levels for no apparent rule, adding, in a progressive sequence that leads from the entrance to the kitchen, bathroom tub with stained glass ceilings, the master bedroom, a living room adjacent to a 'fitness area, a dining room and a spa. All linked through transparent or solid panels technical blocks covered in precious materials.
Architecture skinny, another quote, this time "stolen" in Mies, which is projected outside through two generous windows to which is added a reflective chrome steel volume that serves as the entrance canopy and literally pushes the house in the garden empty . Some beams are deliberately left exposed to denounce the structural nature of the building, while all opaque surfaces are coated with a second skin made of inlaid ceramics, limestone, white Carrara marble and wood, all reassembled in formats and different cuts scale and design.
Do not miss the legendary roof garden, cornerstone of any modern home that respects, that in Waterform project results in a carpet in round synthetic grass on which supports the discharge of a fountain shaped like a milk carton: a decidedly self-deprecating way declare his love for the masters of the past.
