139 m², a residential renovation in Songshan, Taipei — set inside an aging mid-rise building. Before any design work began, the Tan family made a single upfront commitment: bring the structural shell, plumbing, insulation and storage systems back to contemporary baseline. That early decision defined the project's intent: lift the daily quality of an aging apartment to match how a family actually lives today.

Within NestingSeries, TanResidence asks a different version of the family question: when a public zone has been carved up by load-bearing walls, how does a household reorganize it into something it can actually adjust? The answer was to swap hard edges for soft ones — living room, multi-function zone, and dining-kitchen are now separated by reeded-glass sliding panels that open into one continuous public space and close into three. The corridor resolves into a single arched threshold at its far end. Almost every door in the home disappears into its elevation: hidden doors, integrated storage, handleless cabinetry — trading the heavy partitioning of the original apartment for a lighter, more adjustable contemporary plan.

Material choices follow a principle of neutrality and absorption. Micro-cement walls bring every elevation into a single misted-grey plane, covering the marks of the original apartment with a quiet ground tone. Pale oak appears only on storage faces, the desk, and the integrated pull-strips of hidden doors — moments of breath in the material register. The floor is laid in a continuous seamless micro-cement plane, threading every room onto one visual surface. Thin black lines on the ceiling mark the edges of HVAC and lighting; they organize the eye without claiming weight. Once structure, plan, and storage have all been resolved, an aging apartment can truly come back to contemporary daily use. That is what NestingSeries is saying in TanResidence.