The Daan Complex is located at the corner of Xinsheng South Road, Section 1, in Taipei's Daan District, bounded on the west by the major thoroughfare of Xinsheng South Road and on the south by a lane five meters wide. The idea behind the EHS Archilab + Hsuyuan Kuo design was to take curtains, which usually hang in interiors to block the sun, and move them outward to the exterior balconies to provide shade and rain cover. Instead of fabric, the external curtains are composed of silver-colored, perforated metal plates with a fluorocarbon coating. Floor-to-ceiling windows cover a large area of the building facade that lies just inside; this double-layer façade solves the problem of exposure to strong sunlight from the west. It also brings an integrated look to the outer skin of this residential building, with four households per floor and a total of forty households on twelve floors, creating a unified visual expression that faces the urban environment.

The perforated aluminum plates come in "S" shapes with three different radii of curvature. These simulate the rippling folds of curtain gauze, hinting at the positions of the openings and balconies inside and providing the legally-mandated space for emergency evacuation. The space between this outer skin and the floor-to-ceiling windows forms the building's "cortical membrane," which is expressed also in the ambiguity between our visual and our bodily sense of interior and exterior. The solid folds of this metallic facade glisten in white or gold with the passing sunlight. As light shines through transparent glass windows, shadows are cast on the walls and floors inside by the perforations in the metal folds, the passage of time thus leaving traces that mark the moments of our lives.

基地位於台北大安區新生南路一段的角地，西側為車流頻繁的新生南路,南向面臨五米巷道。設計的構想是將原本懸掛於各戶室內的遮陽窗簾向外推移至陽台及雨遮之外，材料則由布料改為銀色氟碳烤漆的金屬沖孔板,建築立面內層保留為大片的落地窗，以此雙層立面解決西曬嚴重的問題，也讓每層四戶、十二層樓共四十戶的住宅建築有了整合的皮層，成為集體面對城市環境的表情。每兩層樓一個單元的懸吊金屬沖孔板是鋁板制成的限制，也是考慮面對三十米寬道路時的城市尺度。

三種不同半徑尺寸的S型沖孔鋁板模擬窗紗拉動的狀態，即暗示內部的開口及陽台位置，也滿足法規逃生開口距離；其與落地窗之間形成了建築「皮層」的空間，同時表現於視覺及身體對室內與室外感知的曖昧關係上。陽光的移動在凝固起縐的金屬紗立面產生或白晃晃或金閃閃的光澤，也穿過透明的玻璃窗，將縐褶上的大小孔洞陰影投擲在室內的牆面或地面上；時間因此留下可以度量生活的痕跡。