It is a renovation project aiming to balance an integration between old and new. The designer achieved three respects. Respect context with minimum intervention in this brick and concrete structure of the 1980s. Respect nature by designing the window frame outside the window and adjusting the window frame according to the view. When looking from inside, as if the window itself has disappeared, which perfectly presenting the pure green outside. Respect the years by using iron elements echoing with the mottled walls which strengthens the atmosphere of space.

Mr. Qiuwen Luo has operated his current architecture studio since 2016 in Foshan, Guangdong, China, a city with a millennium history and culture. Adhering to his respect for this traditional handicraft City, he tried to find a balance between modern material life and people's spiritual pursuit in the rapidly developing urban environment through architectural construction and exquisite detail design. Creating a new and pleasant environment is the tireless essential pursuit of him and his team.

The City expansion accelerates along with the constant development of information. At the same time, a fierce renewal inside the city which is like a surging whirlpool is absorbing all kinds of resources radially from the center to the surrounding. In the situation of increasingly scarce resources, the re-use of the "old part" of the city is coming up as a new solution. The "272 Gallery" is generated in this background aims to an innovation reuse. It was built in the 1980s, the block is composed of several groups of residential districts with pleasant scale of buildings and streets. Designer aimed to a clear and precise minimal intervention to achieve a kind of intimacy and interdependence between the old and the new, to create a harmonious space atmosphere to adapt to the new needs, and show that the same type of old space can achieve some new possibilities. An experimental renovation practice, “272 Gallery” is a renewal of architectural space which transforms the original residence into three basic functions of medieval furniture display, art gallery and private gathering, so as to inject art and cultural elements into the old community. To touch the memory of the city, making people aware of the charm of the blocks. The city and architecture are closely connected through a pleasant environment, diversified cultural and artistic activities. Because we always feel that the environment is shaped by people, but also shape the people there.