The plan of Uno's Purr-fect Time in New Taipei City turns on a single premise W&Li Design takes seriously, that a cat and its people occupy the same rooms along entirely separate paths.
The apartment is named for the cat. That is not a gimmick. W&Li Design begins from the observation that a body the size of Uno reads a room nothing like the people who share it, and the plan is built to hold both readings at once. Where a conventional renovation would draw a firm line between kitchen, dining, and living, this one leaves gaps.
The clearest of these sits at the entrance. A narrow vertical slot beside a plaster wall separates one zone from the next without sealing it. People slow down and register the threshold; Uno slips straight through. The gap does more than move a body from one space to another. It carries light, air, scent, and sound across the divide, so each room announces the presence of the next before you reach it. Across Taiwan, apartments of this scale usually fight for every partition. Here the walls give ground instead.
The surfaces do the quiet work. Warm putty-taupe micro-cement coats the walls in a hand-troweled skin that shifts from sand to olive as the daylight moves, and the poured floor runs unbroken in a pale grey-green that pulls the whole plan into one continuous ground. A curved plaster volume swells into the circulation, rounding the corner a cat would cut anyway. Nothing is glossy. Everything registers touch.
Against that soft envelope, W&Li Design sets harder notes. A dining table floats on fins of smoked blue-grey glass, its legs dissolving into the floor while the room reflects back through the panes. The kitchen retreats into inky blue-black cabinetry. A calligraphy scroll hangs where a window might. In the washroom, a cobalt vessel basin sits against deep olive-green walls, and a slot of light falls through a louvered slit onto a bench of pale stone.
Circulation here is sensed, not directed. The home refuses to prescribe a single way of living, and that refusal is the point. As the day turns, texture, reflection, and shifting shadow keep re-drawing how each corner is used, by whichever body arrives first. The space is finished. The living has only started.
