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Mao'er Hutong - Carrying Pole House
Mao'er Hutong - Carrying Pole House
Beijing, China
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Mao'er Hutong - Carrying Pole House
Beijing, China
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$50K - 100K
The current state of the site is a north-facing courtyard house in a single row, with a double-slope roof and a long, narrow front yard. Based on this, the attempt is made to stimulate the richness and uncertainty of life by "rebuilding a house within the existing one". The specific operation is to insert a suspended box to create three new spaces: a sunken space, a large space, and a terrace courtyard space. The single space experience is transformed into a triple experience, each of which interacts with the original site: the sunken space echoes the courtyard, the large space echoes the wooden frame, and the terrace courtyard space echoes the original roof. The three are integrated as a whole while also being interrelated. By means of the neighbor's sloping roof and the newly built semi-elevated platform, the view that spreads towards the sky is reconstructed. The terrace courtyard is immersed in the sky, and the two sloping roofs become the channels for the view to flow into the house; the semi-sunken floor borrows space from the ground and faces the mottled wall, providing a quiet and private experience. Through the creation of stepped and three-dimensional spaces and circulation, the indoor and outdoor light and scenery are transformed, converting the simple binary relationship between inside and outside into a multi-dimensional one.
At the same time, the structure is made the protagonist of the space. The suspended steel structure is separated from the old wooden structure. The main body of the large steel truss, weighing only 1.9 tons, is detached from the wooden roof frame and the ground, forming a floating enclosed space: one end is anchored by a tension rod, with a concrete counterweight below; the other end is cantilevered with a middle column as the fulcrum, supporting a 6-ton floor slab, forming a "shoulder bar truss", allowing the truss tension and gravity to counterbalance each other.
Life needs warmth. We pursue a kind of "zero-degree warmth", keeping a distance from excessive refinement, returning to a rich and interesting daily life, and creating a house that is subjectively abstract yet has a sense of reality, familiar yet strange.
At the same time, the structure is made the protagonist of the space. The suspended steel structure is separated from the old wooden structure. The main body of the large steel truss, weighing only 1.9 tons, is detached from the wooden roof frame and the ground, forming a floating enclosed space: one end is anchored by a tension rod, with a concrete counterweight below; the other end is cantilevered with a middle column as the fulcrum, supporting a 6-ton floor slab, forming a "shoulder bar truss", allowing the truss tension and gravity to counterbalance each other.
Life needs warmth. We pursue a kind of "zero-degree warmth", keeping a distance from excessive refinement, returning to a rich and interesting daily life, and creating a house that is subjectively abstract yet has a sense of reality, familiar yet strange.
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