Peny Hsieh Interiors has unveiled Echo Villa, a 990-square-meter private residence in Taipei completed in January 2025. Tucked into a mountainous landscape, the villa draws conceptual and formal inspiration from the shifting contours of its natural surroundings. Rather than imposing a fixed architectural narrative, the design responds to its environment with sculptural subtlety and flowing spatial continuity.
INTERIOR DESIGN
At the heart of the renovation lies a custom-built language of curves. These soft transitions, in furniture, ceilings, and partitions, become the architectural equivalent of mountain lines, connecting the interior to the landscape without literal mimicry. The approach prioritizes movement and coherence, dissolving rigid thresholds in favor of seamless flow.
Material selection reinforces this organic sensibility. Mineral-toned plaster offers walls a tactile, geological quality, while natural teak wood flooring adds grounding warmth. Handcrafted furniture and soft textiles extend the sense of refinement without disrupting the calm, monochromatic palette. Here, luxury is not an imposition but a distillation, measured, quiet, and deliberate.
Light plays an architectural role in Echo Villa. The studio has used both natural and indirect artificial lighting to underscore the project’s sculptural character. Light filters through softened architectural forms during the day, while subtle uplighting and recessed fixtures trace volumes at night, adding visual rhythm and emphasizing material texture.
Further articulating the space are curated artworks by Draga & Aurel, Bruno Moinard, Christophe Delcourt, and Paul Bik. These pieces, chosen for their resonance with the villa’s themes of tactility and transition, function not as ornamentation but as integral layers of the spatial narrative.
Echo Villa is a refined exercise in architectural and emotional coherence. Peny Hsieh Interiors achieves more than visual unity, the project creates a sensorial experience rooted in place, light, and material. In doing so, it proposes a way of living that is at once responsive and composed, where architecture hums quietly in tune with its environment.
