Situated in Taipei’s Songshan District, The Urban Threshold explores the boundary between the city and the home, public life and private retreat, through a series of spatial and environmental transitions. Rather than defining these relationships through fixed partitions, the project conceives the domestic interior as a flexible framework in which degrees of openness, privacy and connection can continuously shift. 

Private and communal spaces are positioned at opposite ends of the residence, while the areas between them operate as adaptable thresholds responsive to changing patterns of inhabitation. This concept is most clearly expressed through a series of movable screens between the study and living area, which function simultaneously as partition, aperture and environmental filter—modulating visual privacy, daylight and spatial connectivity within Taipei’s dense urban fabric. The reorganisation of the plan further maximises the apartment’s three-sided southern exposure, allowing natural light to become an active element in the spatial experience and its transformation throughout the day. Custom-designed furniture, integrated technologies and carefully selected materials extend this architectural language across different scales.

Collectively, these strategies redefine the boundary not as a fixed line of separation, but as an adjustable condition—one that allows the home to shift between collective interaction and individual retreat, responding to the changing rhythms of contemporary urban life.