Courtyard near West Sea / META - Project
Unlike the introverted quality of the traditional courtyard house, the owner of this site asked for a variety of mix-use program, including tea house, dinning, party space, office, meeting, as well as dwelling and entertainment. The contemporary and sometime ?public? program opened up the courtyard to become ?extraverted?, so as to induce more human interactions.Â
© Su Chen, Chun Fang
Architects: META - Project
Location: West Sea, Beijing, China
Design Team: Wang Shuo, Zhang Jing, Yaping Wu, Yin Cheng, Qianqian Chang, Han Wang, Guowei Zhang, Tian Lan
Area: 800.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Su Chen, Chun Fang
Lighting Consultant: Xiaowei Han
© Su Chen, Chun Fang
Unlike the introverted quality of the traditional courtyard house, the owner of this site asked for a variety of mix-use program, including tea house, dinning, party space, office, meeting, as well as dwelling and entertainment. The contemporary and sometime ?public? program opened up the courtyard to become ?extraverted?, so as to induce more human interactions.Â
Before . Image © Su Chen, Chun Fang
These required us to break the general understanding of the courtyard as an enclosed typology by introducing the experience of ?meandering in the hutongs? into the courtyard, and the interventional approach was derived from the unfol...
© Su Chen, Chun Fang
Architects: META - Project
Location: West Sea, Beijing, China
Design Team: Wang Shuo, Zhang Jing, Yaping Wu, Yin Cheng, Qianqian Chang, Han Wang, Guowei Zhang, Tian Lan
Area: 800.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Su Chen, Chun Fang
Lighting Consultant: Xiaowei Han
© Su Chen, Chun Fang
Unlike the introverted quality of the traditional courtyard house, the owner of this site asked for a variety of mix-use program, including tea house, dinning, party space, office, meeting, as well as dwelling and entertainment. The contemporary and sometime ?public? program opened up the courtyard to become ?extraverted?, so as to induce more human interactions.Â
Before . Image © Su Chen, Chun Fang
These required us to break the general understanding of the courtyard as an enclosed typology by introducing the experience of ?meandering in the hutongs? into the courtyard, and the interventional approach was derived from the unfol...
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