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House in Longmen
House in Longmen
Fuyang District, Hangzhou, China
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Other Projects by The Design Institute Of Landscape & Architecture China Academy Of Art CO.,LTD
House in Longmen
Fuyang District, Hangzhou, China
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
The project is located in a field on the outskirts of Longmen Ancient Town, southwest of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, with a small hill to the south, where light and ventilation are greatly affected, while the west and north are relatively open. Longmen Ancient Town has a relatively well-preserved Ming and Qing Dynasty ancient architectural complex in the area south of the Yangtze River, and its architectural settlement has a distinctive local style and cultural and historical background. The owner will use the house mainly as an owner-occupied house in the short term, but hopes to leave the possibility of future B&B operation. Therefore, the design process not only needs to balance the economical construction, energy saving and spatial practicality of rural self-built houses, but also needs to consider the vacation, leisure and social attributes of the future use as a B&B.
We fully respect the natural environment in which the project is located, hoping to straddle the first 50 years of the wild growth of rural residential houses, to create a connection with the historical memory of the ancient town, to select local materials, to continue the traditional craftsmanship, and to maximize the integration into the surrounding environment, so that users can gain a new living experience in the fusion of the new and the old.
The house has one basement level and three floors above ground. The first floor is a horizontal extension of the building form, the sloping roof runs vertically through the second and third floors, and the low gable reduces the volume of the building on the third floor. The basement is partially open by taking advantage of the difference in terrain height, and the surrounding cavity layer serves as a good moisture-proof ventilation.
The pebble wall and floor pavement is a traditional craft that is very characteristic of Longmen Ancient Town, and we have translated it with modern architectural language, with rough warm architectural paint to build the ground floor facade of the building, allowing the building to grow out of the landscape environment that also uses pebble pavement.
The second to third floor facades are wrapped with aluminum alloy pressed and stretched mesh, allowing the hazy landscape to be imprinted into the interior through the mesh. With time and oxidation, the aluminum alloy surface fades to a soft silvery gray with a shiny metallic sheen, echoing the traditional small green tiles on the roof.
The main body of the building is a reinforced concrete frame structure, while the roof is a mixed steel and wood structure. Due to the shading of the mountain on the south side, skylights are installed on the roof to bring in sunlight and improve indoor lighting. The cedar roof frame is the most common form of sloping roof construction in the region, and the beautiful wooden structure needs no decoration at all. The ingenious mortise and tenon techniques of local carpenters create a roof space wrapped in gentle wood color and full of light and shadow rhythm.
The design of the building's interior spaces emphasizes the guidance of the eye and the sense of extension of space. The first floor houses the main public space, with a bar directly across from the entrance serving the living room, dining room and tea room, and in the future, if converted into a B&B operation, it could also be used as a reception check-in area. The second floor is the main living space for the owner's family, containing four different bedrooms and a "magic cube" staircase designed as an art installation. It is not only a staircase for vertical traffic, but also a place to read, play or even laze around. We want to give it a meaning of making people stay and make it a spiritual place with ambiguous functions. When looking up through the relatively narrow passage of the staircase, the three levels of space open up, with the sunlight pouring through the skylight onto the walls, creating a warm light and shadow. The first floor is the main entertainment space, with white metal mesh arranged in two basic modalities overlapping as the top surface decoration.
Slanted elements are added to the space to echo the sloped roof and provide continuity. We guide people to communicate with each other through the connected space between the upper and lower levels, or to admire the distant mountains through the skylight, deliberately reinforcing the user's elevation behavior and expanding the scope of interaction.
The skylights create a wind-pulling effect to increase the vertical air flow, which can greatly reduce the need for air conditioning in summer, and the sunlight can spread to each bedroom through the skylights in winter, making it truly warm in winter and cool in summer. We designed the project to reduce energy consumption and used local natural wood and stone as much as possible. All workers in the project construction process are local residents of Longmen, and by communicating with them on site, we were able to draw design inspiration from local craftsmanship and also find the most appropriate expression of local materials and craftsmanship in this project.
Chinese rural self-built houses have not yet found their own language of contemporary rural architecture in the past decades. We seek to recreate the values of place and countryside through architectural design. Each village has its own unique resource endowment, which needs to be inherited and perpetuated. How to make good use of these resources is an important proposition throughout our design process. We hope to bring a new design direction for China's rural revitalization process through our residential practice, and to create comfortable and pleasant rural dwellings for villagers.
We fully respect the natural environment in which the project is located, hoping to straddle the first 50 years of the wild growth of rural residential houses, to create a connection with the historical memory of the ancient town, to select local materials, to continue the traditional craftsmanship, and to maximize the integration into the surrounding environment, so that users can gain a new living experience in the fusion of the new and the old.
The house has one basement level and three floors above ground. The first floor is a horizontal extension of the building form, the sloping roof runs vertically through the second and third floors, and the low gable reduces the volume of the building on the third floor. The basement is partially open by taking advantage of the difference in terrain height, and the surrounding cavity layer serves as a good moisture-proof ventilation.
The pebble wall and floor pavement is a traditional craft that is very characteristic of Longmen Ancient Town, and we have translated it with modern architectural language, with rough warm architectural paint to build the ground floor facade of the building, allowing the building to grow out of the landscape environment that also uses pebble pavement.
The second to third floor facades are wrapped with aluminum alloy pressed and stretched mesh, allowing the hazy landscape to be imprinted into the interior through the mesh. With time and oxidation, the aluminum alloy surface fades to a soft silvery gray with a shiny metallic sheen, echoing the traditional small green tiles on the roof.
The main body of the building is a reinforced concrete frame structure, while the roof is a mixed steel and wood structure. Due to the shading of the mountain on the south side, skylights are installed on the roof to bring in sunlight and improve indoor lighting. The cedar roof frame is the most common form of sloping roof construction in the region, and the beautiful wooden structure needs no decoration at all. The ingenious mortise and tenon techniques of local carpenters create a roof space wrapped in gentle wood color and full of light and shadow rhythm.
The design of the building's interior spaces emphasizes the guidance of the eye and the sense of extension of space. The first floor houses the main public space, with a bar directly across from the entrance serving the living room, dining room and tea room, and in the future, if converted into a B&B operation, it could also be used as a reception check-in area. The second floor is the main living space for the owner's family, containing four different bedrooms and a "magic cube" staircase designed as an art installation. It is not only a staircase for vertical traffic, but also a place to read, play or even laze around. We want to give it a meaning of making people stay and make it a spiritual place with ambiguous functions. When looking up through the relatively narrow passage of the staircase, the three levels of space open up, with the sunlight pouring through the skylight onto the walls, creating a warm light and shadow. The first floor is the main entertainment space, with white metal mesh arranged in two basic modalities overlapping as the top surface decoration.
Slanted elements are added to the space to echo the sloped roof and provide continuity. We guide people to communicate with each other through the connected space between the upper and lower levels, or to admire the distant mountains through the skylight, deliberately reinforcing the user's elevation behavior and expanding the scope of interaction.
The skylights create a wind-pulling effect to increase the vertical air flow, which can greatly reduce the need for air conditioning in summer, and the sunlight can spread to each bedroom through the skylights in winter, making it truly warm in winter and cool in summer. We designed the project to reduce energy consumption and used local natural wood and stone as much as possible. All workers in the project construction process are local residents of Longmen, and by communicating with them on site, we were able to draw design inspiration from local craftsmanship and also find the most appropriate expression of local materials and craftsmanship in this project.
Chinese rural self-built houses have not yet found their own language of contemporary rural architecture in the past decades. We seek to recreate the values of place and countryside through architectural design. Each village has its own unique resource endowment, which needs to be inherited and perpetuated. How to make good use of these resources is an important proposition throughout our design process. We hope to bring a new design direction for China's rural revitalization process through our residential practice, and to create comfortable and pleasant rural dwellings for villagers.
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