Outside of Paul Chan’s Silver Lake studio, the rush of L.A. turns tranquil as pineapple guava plants brush against a wall in the warm breeze. Chan opens the wooden gate and ushers me into a sanctuary of his creation: a yard flanked by a tall tree, a worn picnic bench and a Chinese porcelain table and stools. In the shadow of the porcelain seats, as if placed by gnomes, sit four children’s chairs. Each just the size of my hand, the soft wooden chairs lie strewn around a stack of bricks. Here, in this miniature teatime, I can imagine that at any moment, children will come running back to play while adults laugh from the porch. The Hong Kong-born architect opened the studio Days of Being this year as a place for visitors to rent and artists to have a place to create and recharge. There is a sense of familiarity in the oak floorboards and the slanted sunlight within Chan’s thoughtfully designed space. The Hong Kong-born architect opened the studio, Days of Being, this …