The White Box: Nothingness as Content

A guest room that is a completely pure white space: walls, ceiling, and floor are all the same seamless white mineral coating, with corners gently curved, no baseboards or moldings. There are only three things in the room: a low white platform bed without a headboard, a niche carved out of the wall for storage, and a white bathtub embedded in the floor. There are no visible light fixtures—light comes from a cove around the ceiling and a slit in the floor. There is no window, or only an extremely narrow high side window. The content of the space is light and proportion. Avoid: adding any furniture or decorations, visible light fixtures, using a second color, divisions or trim on the walls.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一間客房是一個完全純白的空間:牆、天花與地坪都是同一種無縫的白色礦物塗料,轉角做微幅的圓弧,沒有踢腳與線板。房間裡只有三樣東西:一張沒有床頭板的白色低矮平台床、一個從牆面挖出的凹龕作為置物、以及一道嵌入地坪的白色浴缸。沒有可見的燈具——光來自天花四周的一圈凹槽與地坪的一道縫。沒有窗,或只有一道極窄的高側窗。空間的內容是光與比例。避免:加入任何家具與裝飾、出現可見的燈具、使用第二種顏色、牆面出現分割與收邊。