DESIGN NAME: Lane House
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Residental
INSPIRATION: For a fresh stereotype of home design, a way of living in "hutong" brought out the idea of lanes and possibilities in "loading", "uninstalling" and "building up inside". The balance of strong contradiction between privacy and openness was maintained by grills or curtains. To expend the space, the designer removed walls and conceptualized types of block rooms for different functions, each room has at least two connection points of wall mingling as the concept "a block within a block", "a lane within a lane
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Based on this concept of "inside lanes", the designer tried many possibilities as in various decorations to realize and express the idea. The relationship between privacy and openness of the space is the focus of design, when the owners ask for privacy and isolation, they use grilles, curtains, but if they need more space, can abnegate them. The designer treated differently for types of rooms bodied with different functions, with which provided at least two or more "connections" to other blocks, like holes, windows or doors, so that the overall space was formed, as well as the wall shaded.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: located in the bustling area of the city center, an ordinary high-level integrated residential community with seven stories height of one elevator for one household plan, the neighborhood is quiet and nicely
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Shifoying Road, Beijing, China
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Provided with more pluralistic room and freedom to experience space association, the host has more opportunities to create ideal way of living while gain great convenience. The designer utilized stone, wood, metal and glass in its natural form with few construction methods to compatible with the interior and exterior to create gray space. The designer paid attention to ritual way of life by adjusting and optimizing this space to improve efficiency.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Gross floor area (sqm): 200
Interior floor area (sqm): 160
TAGS: interior, design, architect, construction, lane, privacy, openness, loading, uninstalling
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: People in the room can communicate directly with each
other at any spot at any time. The central area is a functional corridor, but the rear corridor contains the most private
space, which can be adjusted and blocked with windows, curtains or partition doors. For example, when the owner closes
all wooden and mirror doors in the corridor, the place will have a strong boundary and a considerable distance from the
outside world, leaving the owner with a very core and ceremonial clean area. At the same time, it takes variability of
openness into consideration.
CHALLENGE: One of the biggest challenges is “in which way people desire to live in here” and “the attitude towards the living space”. Throughout the work, he reduced interference of elements and techniques like colors and shapes so as to only focus on the ritual way of life. The owners can dine or work in the kitchen, bedroom, living room, or a table at any time to enjoy themselves, and these feelings will greatly enhance the owners’ perceptions, understandings and visual perceived efficiency of a day in this "expensive" city. The essence of living is what the designer constantly thinking about, the designer attempts to find ways to establish meanings for residences and shelters by initial and original intentions in architectural and interior designing for different clients.
ADDED DATE: 2018-09-06 12:39:12
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Nolan Chao, Na Cheung
IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1,2,3,4,5: Yunpu Cai
Video: Yang Bo
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