Free space with wood

Nanjing, China

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Free space with wood

Nanjing, China

Firm

Fan Architectural Firm (FANAF)

Type

Commercial › Showroom

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$50K - 100K

Use wood as ink to depict life. Use wooden furniture as a medium to express your understanding of life, design in a free way, and build an environment-friendly, natural and healthy space. Only wood works are used to create space, and paint and color are not used.
Two courtyards, two boxes and two blurs, together with the red brick walls, form a new interface between city and architecture. It deconstructs the original architectural boundary and makes it three-dimensional, relative and fuzzy.
As a historical relic, the red brick wall has been preserved, repaired and maintained, becoming a necessary cultural feature of the contemporary city. It tells a story of the past and is also the background of the transformation design. Therefore, we mainly focus on the first floor elevation and the gap between the first floor elevation and the red brick wall. We separate the gap into the entrance courtyard and the internal courtyard. At the same time, different residential functions are placed in the two courtyards to break the facade boundary, so as to reconstruct and blur the architectural boundary.
The two courtyards have slightly different ways of blurring architectural boundaries. In the entrance courtyard, the black box is embedded in the building, half of which is indoor, and the other half extends to the courtyard with a whole side of frameless glass. The world inside the building is laid out and infiltrates the city through the windows on the red brick wall. The scenery of the city also reflects romance and vitality on the glass facade of the black box through the window.
In the internal courtyard, the indoor log ceiling extends to the courtyard, and the new facade is hidden to integrate the indoor and outdoor spaces. The C-shaped teahouse is located in the courtyard, dividing the external urban environment and making the transparent space introverted.
The confrontation between history and the contemporary has resulted in the change and blending of time and space, and the multiple meanings of the boundary are no longer clear and definite. Therefore, people who are in it are not bound by the conventional concepts, and obtain the dual freedom of body and spirit.
When the interface relationship is no longer clear, the interior and exterior of the building become blurred, and the space begins to penetrate, the sense of the garden appears.