A studio that works between two cities learns to measure everything twice. Once in meters, for the drawings. Once in habits, for the people.
In Chengdu, an apartment breathes around the dining table; tea is a schedule, not a beverage. On the East Coast, the kitchen island carries half of family life, and the entry has to swallow winter. Neither is more correct. They are different coordinates, and a plan that ignores its coordinates will always feel slightly translated.
So before any moodboard, we ask where the morning light actually lands, who comes over on weekends, what the loudest hour of the household sounds like. The answers move walls more often than aesthetics do.
The XY in our name is not decoration. It is the reminder that a room is a point in a system — and that the system includes you.