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Other Projects by 过半儿 guò bàn er
House ZB004 - Beer House
Beijing, China
House ZB004
A brewmaster and his family enjoy their flexible living area and its connection to their outdoor social spaces.
Located around 35 km northeast of Beijing's city center in the district of Shunyi, the architects renovated and connected two abandoned houses. The somewhat bland dwellings characteristic of the fringe-city context now serve as a new home that emphasizes the connection between indoor gathering spaces and outdoor social spaces.
An existing 180-square-meter main house and a second 120-square-meter house, typical of the rural fringes of Beijing, occupied the plot, leaving 270 square meters of outdoor garden area.
After stripping the main house to its simple column-and-slab structure and reinforcing the existing columns, it now mainly serves as a flexible, open-plan living area. Separated from the living area by large glass partitions, a fully fitted-out brewery faces the living room. The brewery serves as a showcase for the craft of brewing. Three 100-litre brewing tanks allow brewing various beers, ranging from Pilsner and Lager to IPA and non-alcoholic beer.
"Our client is a brewmaster with decades of experience and wished for his home brewery to be part of his living room. We took this as an opportunity to design a floating kitchen block that also serves as a bar for the brewery," says Christian Taeubert, Co-founder of 过半儿 guò bàn er.
The upstands of the existing window openings of the main house were demolished and filled with three-meter-tall folding glass doors to provide a seamless visual connection with the main garden area. A circular steel canopy gives much-needed shading to the south-facing façade in Beijing's hot summers and covers the sunken outdoor seating area. A circular pool with a stone-cladded pool deck completes the outdoor social spaces.
While a master-bedroom suite is part of the main house, the smaller house on the north side of the plot serves as a generous living area for the family's children and guests. The children's room, guest suite, and the connecting hallway have framed views into two small private gardens.
The existing building was retrofitted with continuous exterior insulation. An efficient air-to-water heat pump powers the house's heating and cooling cycles. A wood pallet oven in the living area complements the heating strategy. It provides enough instant heat in autumn and early spring during cool mornings and evenings without running the floor heating. On cold winter days, the wood pallet oven takes off high peak loads from the heat pump, powering the floor heating.
"Our conversion project serves as a model for creating high-quality living space on a moderate budget, a novelty in Beijing," says Sun Min, Co-founder of 过半儿 guò bàn er.
Instead of replacing the rather nondescript existing buildings, the architects transformed them. They were driven by repurposing the existing structure to provide flexible living space, reducing energy and CO2 emissions wasted in new construction, and minimizing construction costs as much as possible.
This home is the latest addition to a new neighborhood of five homes within proximity that the architects have created. They have labeled the new neighborhood the "About 100'Project. It aims to create a growing network of neighbors interested in unique lifestyle experiences. Neighbors are starting to help each other in this new neighborhood as they go about their daily lives.
"The success of the project has inspired a new way of life for people who yearn for a natural life and are troubled by sky-high rent in Beijing today," said 过半儿 guò bàn er.
Project Name: House ZB004
Project Type: Residential Addition
Completion: October 2024
Size: 320 sqm of living area and 270 sqm of garden area
Location: Shunyi, Beijing
Architecture and Interior: 过半儿 guò bàn er
Design Director: Christian Taeubert, Sun Min
Team: Wang Nan
Photos: Yumeng Zhu
Photos: Boris Shiu
Styling: So Far So Good Studio
A brewmaster and his family enjoy their flexible living area and its connection to their outdoor social spaces.
Located around 35 km northeast of Beijing's city center in the district of Shunyi, the architects renovated and connected two abandoned houses. The somewhat bland dwellings characteristic of the fringe-city context now serve as a new home that emphasizes the connection between indoor gathering spaces and outdoor social spaces.
An existing 180-square-meter main house and a second 120-square-meter house, typical of the rural fringes of Beijing, occupied the plot, leaving 270 square meters of outdoor garden area.
After stripping the main house to its simple column-and-slab structure and reinforcing the existing columns, it now mainly serves as a flexible, open-plan living area. Separated from the living area by large glass partitions, a fully fitted-out brewery faces the living room. The brewery serves as a showcase for the craft of brewing. Three 100-litre brewing tanks allow brewing various beers, ranging from Pilsner and Lager to IPA and non-alcoholic beer.
"Our client is a brewmaster with decades of experience and wished for his home brewery to be part of his living room. We took this as an opportunity to design a floating kitchen block that also serves as a bar for the brewery," says Christian Taeubert, Co-founder of 过半儿 guò bàn er.
The upstands of the existing window openings of the main house were demolished and filled with three-meter-tall folding glass doors to provide a seamless visual connection with the main garden area. A circular steel canopy gives much-needed shading to the south-facing façade in Beijing's hot summers and covers the sunken outdoor seating area. A circular pool with a stone-cladded pool deck completes the outdoor social spaces.
While a master-bedroom suite is part of the main house, the smaller house on the north side of the plot serves as a generous living area for the family's children and guests. The children's room, guest suite, and the connecting hallway have framed views into two small private gardens.
The existing building was retrofitted with continuous exterior insulation. An efficient air-to-water heat pump powers the house's heating and cooling cycles. A wood pallet oven in the living area complements the heating strategy. It provides enough instant heat in autumn and early spring during cool mornings and evenings without running the floor heating. On cold winter days, the wood pallet oven takes off high peak loads from the heat pump, powering the floor heating.
"Our conversion project serves as a model for creating high-quality living space on a moderate budget, a novelty in Beijing," says Sun Min, Co-founder of 过半儿 guò bàn er.
Instead of replacing the rather nondescript existing buildings, the architects transformed them. They were driven by repurposing the existing structure to provide flexible living space, reducing energy and CO2 emissions wasted in new construction, and minimizing construction costs as much as possible.
This home is the latest addition to a new neighborhood of five homes within proximity that the architects have created. They have labeled the new neighborhood the "About 100'Project. It aims to create a growing network of neighbors interested in unique lifestyle experiences. Neighbors are starting to help each other in this new neighborhood as they go about their daily lives.
"The success of the project has inspired a new way of life for people who yearn for a natural life and are troubled by sky-high rent in Beijing today," said 过半儿 guò bàn er.
Project Name: House ZB004
Project Type: Residential Addition
Completion: October 2024
Size: 320 sqm of living area and 270 sqm of garden area
Location: Shunyi, Beijing
Architecture and Interior: 过半儿 guò bàn er
Design Director: Christian Taeubert, Sun Min
Team: Wang Nan
Photos: Yumeng Zhu
Photos: Boris Shiu
Styling: So Far So Good Studio
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