
One Room One Lawn / Scale Wooded area Atelier

- House :
100 m²
12 months :
2021
Producers : Harmel House, Parador, Rosl
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Lead Architect :
Jia Gu, Shan Zhong

Textual content description equipped through the architects. The condominium is positioned in a high-rise residential construction in Nanjing alongside the Qinhuai River, and the millennium Stone Town Wall is at the north of it. The landlord couple, who’re about to retire, need to turn out to be the prevailing usual three-beds condominium right into a place of dwelling appropriate for retirement residing. The design deliberately opens up the enclosed rooms and transforms the three-bedroom format into one bed room or as we will be able to additionally name it: one backyard. Unique Linear move is reorganized right into a looped move which makes one can walk within the backyard. Strolling throughout the aisles with more than a few purposes, the framed view of the internal and external home windows adjustments and enriches the sight continuously. It has the similar spatial revel in as residing and shifting in a Chinese language backyard. Within the post-pandemic generation, other folks spend much more time at house, fascinating residential areas have by no means been extra essential than they’re nowadays.


We created a chain of purposes to fulfill the landlord couple’s residing behavior and emotional wishes, bringing some recent reviews to their retirement residing. Within the yard-like multifunctional lounge, one can play somatosensory video games or do a little planting. Walk into the e-book alley, one can spend some high quality studying time right here. One can even have a stress-free foot tub in entrance of the north bay window and benefit from the surroundings of the Qinhuai River. The middle of the house revolves across the eating desk and culinary house, making it simple for the house owners to socialise with friends and family.The lounge going through the access is a assorted task space and a transition house from external to inside. It has a equivalent spatial feeling to the entrance backyard of a standard single-family area. The lounge design is a reinterpretation of panorama parts akin to terraces, stones, fences, and pergolas. It conforms to the staggering peak distinction of the unique rental, making a landscaped seating space, and embellishing the sensation of an out of doors backyard.


Because the boundary of the lounge, the settee again is designed to be as gentle because the boundary of an out of doors backyard – “Liba”. The backrest wooden ring adopts the cold-bending veneer method. The fabrication permits us to provide a inflexible construction that may be leaned on with out a heavy glance. Liba backrest is tremendous gentle and simple to regulate its placement, which is appropriate for quite a lot of utilization eventualities. There’s no furnishings positioned on the heart of the lounge, leaving a spacious and versatile position for occupants to play yoga, somatosensory video games, and different actions.The picket fabrics enclose quiet and heat areas for eating, studying, and recreational, maximizing the intensity of the rental alongside the diagonal route. Each and every house has a way of nested layers of growth. The picket hallway hints on the access into a chain of rest areas, and in addition the transition between the quiet bed room and extra energetic areas. The picket ceiling makes use of the apartment’s authentic ground, which has been planed, polished, and hung obliquely to give the feel of the Okan wooden in a brand new manner.


The 2 south-facing bedrooms within the authentic condominium had been merged into one main bedroom within the new design. This permits 6 to 8hours of daylight to flush throughout the bay home windows into the main bedroom on a daily basis. The landlord requested for two separate beds with adjustable backrests to steer clear of interference of sleep. We created an intimate and interference-free double mattress through combining the one beds with an opening in-between. Curtains are used within the dresser to exchange the cupboard doorways. Opening the curtain, one can make a selection garments in an open means; last the curtain, the snoozing house has an additional piece of calmness.



Coming into the e-book alley from the picket portal, one instantly enters a relaxed house surrounded through books. The home windows, quick partitions, and slim door openings round additionally make the e-book alley engage with different areas naturally. The e-book alley permits the condominium’s north-south line of sight to go via. One can glance throughout the bed room window and notice the table, the fairway seating deck, and the furthest level – the surroundings outdoor of the window. Other people can pause right here, pick out some books or have a look at photograph albums, learn and leisure on this non violent nook.


The north bay window has the most efficient view of the entire apartment. We expanded the bay window right into a special-shaped seating deck, diminished the ceiling, and made an intimate leisure house. The landlord can take a seat through the window and benefit from the scenic view outdoor. The void in the midst of the seating deck can also be positioned with a board to shape an entire mattress, and the sliding doorways can also be pulled as much as make the distance a comfortable visitor room. There’s a stone foot bath underneath the seating deck, so the house owners can benefit from the riverside surroundings whilst having a soothing foot tub.The north aspect of the rental has a ravishing view of the Nanjing Qinhuai River,the stone town wall, and the TV tower. Prior to the renovation, the partition partitions of the visitor room, visitor rest room, and kitchen at the north aspect totally blocked the view and light-weight from coming into public spaces of the rental. The brand new design breaks the closed feeling of separate small rooms and creates an open and built-in house throughout the mixture of quick partitions and doorways. When the doorways are closed, every house maintains impartial purposes; when the doorways are open, the most efficient view from the north absolutely enters into the rental.


The house owners’ day by day washing and showering basically occur within the grasp rest room, so we envisioned the visitor rest room as a recreational backyard trail, the place one can wash fingers, water some plants, and visitors can benefit from the Qinhuai River view. The stainless-steel basin meets the serve as with the cleanest shape, growing a mild and neat window house. One can benefit from the breath taking view every time strolling go viatherest room. The bathe space wall continues the picket texture, the use of water-resistant birch plywood. The ground planks are recycled from the condominium, and are planed, polished, and covered with water-resistant wax. The prevailing grooves at the again of the ground planks supply a really perfect anti-slip serve as. The visitor rest room supplies an intimate heat picket feeling when bathing and a breath taking open view when taking a look out the window.


Social Actions akin to youngsters’s visits and kin buddies’ gatherings basically happen on the eating desk. The landlord may even commit extra recreational time to cooking after retirement. So eating desk turns into the middle of kin actions, and it is usually the bodily heart of the condominium. The stainless-steel desk floor has a groovy steel feeling which is against this with the nice and cozy picket subject matter. The desk is supported through an I-beam fastened between two sheer partitions. In conjunction with the striking cupboards, they shape an undulating canyon-like edge within the kitchen and eating house.


Recycled Plank Floor
The previous plank ground of the condominium was once reused to develop into a part of the brand new house. The ground is one of those African Okan wooden and was once covered with sealer. After greater than twenty years of use, the sealing paint at the ground floor is uninteresting and scratched. We planed, polished, and waxed the planks, then found out that they have got fairly wealthy and unique patterns. We redesigned the glance and set up of those ground planks and made the picket portal ceiling, the visitor rest room ground, the window body of the main bedroom, and a few different house decor pieces.
