Shared Yard Yard

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Unique Properties

The project is a rural guest house on the outskirts, which is required to provide an entirely different lifestyle for people living in cities for a long time, while meeting the functional needs of modern life. From a macroscopic perspective, by preserving and respecting rural culture and introducing a new business model, it is leading a transformation of culture and economic structure, and creating a life fashion unique to the North China.

Dimensions & Packaging

Site area: 763 sq m; Foot Print Area: 258 sq m; Cross Area: 327 sq m

Tags

Rural Renovation, Guest House, Transformation, New Business Model, Traditional Culture

Production Technology

Carbon steel plate,Concrete,White oak finish

Design Challenge

How to make an eco-friendly building? We used suitable construction methods and old materials recycled from the village to eliminate the invasion. The new buildings are under the shade of trees we preserved, being designed in a ventilated position so that air conditioning is unnecessary in summer. All the fruits and vegetables needed for life come from the surrounding vegetable fields and orchards. Rainwater and purified living water are used to irrigate the fields through a drainage system.

Project Duration

The project started in May 2019 and finished in October 2019 in Beijing, China.

Operation Flow

The abandoned house was reconstructed, and the completed buildings not only brought the rural experience to the urbanites, but also provided the villagers with a more advanced community environment and gradually increasing income.
While attracting tourists and driving the new economy, the yard built based on local culture, inspiring villagers to get a new understanding of their local and cultural value, offering a new choice of selecting an occupation and building a living space.

Research

How to treat traditional architecture is always an important issue in rural construction. The old houses on the site are typical of rural dwellings in northern China, with wooden window frames, brick walls and tiled roofs that have survived for generations. So our team first preserved the old house carefully and then connected it to the new building. We used old materials recycled from the village to complete the dialogue between traditional dwellings and contemporary architecture.

Inspiration

For architects, it is hard to find the possibility of diversified development of city and nature, while the countryside with rustic charm is a fertile land of hope, which is enough to rebuild the relationship among humankind, architecture and nature, internalize and shape tradition and current local culture, thus making them become visible and perceivable forms and symbols and permeate into the life.

Image Credits

Image #1: Photographer Yunfeng Shi, Bird's eye view of the yard under the tree, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Yunfeng Shi, An outdoor dining area located in the lower courtyard, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Yunfeng Shi, Living room in the shade, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Yunfeng Shi, Trees continue to grow through the building, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Yunfeng Shi, Yard under the tree in a summer evening, 2019.

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