The co-living residence of parrot–human 鸚鵡之家
我們有一隻鸚鵡，牠是我們的家人。
Home, to us, isn’t just a place for two. It also has to hold the one who feels like family, a parrot with the soul of a three-year-old child. He doesn’t simply need to be cared for, he needs to be invited into our daily life. So we lifted the ceiling, letting the space open out above 2.2 meters into a freer sky. We lowered the partitions between the kitchen and the study to 2.2 meters on purpose, so light can travel through, and so he has a path left for him: a way to fly, to pause, to meet our eyes and answer with his own.
我們家有一位特別的成員，一隻鸚鵡。牠有三歲小朋友的智力，不只需要被照顧，更渴望被理解與回應；因此我想要的家，不只是擺下生活的器物，而是能讓彼此相遇、互動與玩耍的舞台。空間雖不大，我仍希望有一處能安靜工作的吧檯，也保留書房的專注，並在需要時化身客房，讓來訪的人有落腳之處。
設計師替我們把天花拉高，讓室內有超過二米二的開闊平面，成為牠自在巡遊的天空；廚房與書房的隔間刻意降到同樣高度，光線更容易流動，牠也能穿梭其間。那只巨大的鳥籠被巧妙收進玄關側邊，藏在階梯狀棲木之後，周圍還規劃了鸚鵡用品的收納，鐵件棲木與上方櫃體像一座專屬的小城。屋內的斜屋頂如鳥屋般起伏，高處留給牠展翅，低處則溫柔藏起樑與冷氣出風口。吧檯桌面微微延伸，跨過沙發背後再探入書房，於是我們工作的片刻、休息的轉身，都能與牠在同一個呼吸裡相望。