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The Long Circle B&B
The Long Circle B&B
Beijing, China
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The Long Circle B&B
Beijing, China
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
The Long Circle B&B is located in Foyukou Village, a suburban area of Beijing near the Yanqing Park for the Beijing Winter Olympics. The surroundings feature natural landscapes like Yudu Mountain and Yeya Lake. Facing a sloping terrain to the east, the site is surrounded by countryside residences on the other three sides. Comprising four adjacent rectangular plots from different owners, each with a width of 10-15 meters and a length of 25-30 meters, it reflects the typical layout of homesteads in Chinese villages.
Village B&Bs in China often grapple with limitations due to the land policy, hindering their capacity for group activities. This restricted space also poses challenges in providing accommodations beyond basic lodging. Fortunately, this site, formed by combining four homesteads, presents an opportunity for a larger scale. However, the decentralized property rights of these plots create obstacles to achieving a single building.
Observing the existing village houses, most villagers build two south-facing houses along the southern and northern sides of residential plots, creating a courtyard in the middle. By removing the east-west boundary walls, we can establish a large communal courtyard, introducing a new scale. This Barcelona-like structure adeptly balances the demands of expanding the B&B's scale and ensuring independent land property rights.
Therefore, we adopted this structure and positioned eight detached buildings at the north and south ends of each of the four plots. The buildings are connected by corridors on the ground floor, forming a complete common space. Accommodation areas are mainly on the upper floor, with each group of rooms entirely independent and private. Uniform materials are used for the ground-floor walls and surrounding walls, creating a cohesive podium, while the upper floor utilizes the setbacks of plots and the difference in forms to create an image of detached masses. A central courtyard of nearly 600 square meters serves as the core space for common activities, with the flexibility to be subdivided to ensure future property claims.
Earlier buildings in this village use affordable materials like stones and bricks. We applied these materials to the new buildings, implementing sandwich insulation tectonics. Open angles in the brick walls reveal the non-structural function and indicate the insulation construction. The relatively newer self-built houses nearby use plaster and coating to improve the performance of plain bricks, covering their original flaws. We utilized these materials on the brick walls with the treatment like German smear, yet the texture of the exterior shale bricks was not entirely concealed, demonstrating the blend of industrial products and craftsmanship.
The interior extends the exterior color tones, offering various shared functions on the ground floor beyond simple accommodation. These include reception, exhibition, dining, coffee, audio-visual entertainment, and children's play. The upper-floor bedrooms aim to provide a comfortable environment while distinguishing themselves from typical urban hotels. We used solid platforms to serve as beds and facilities such as soaking tubs, along with modern heat pump floor heating, hoping to evoke rural memories of sleeping on heated brick beds, a traditional home facility in North China.
In contemporary China, village B&Bs straddle the line between urban and rural, facing challenges in reception capacity against property independence, industrialization against craftsmanship, and modern comfort against nostalgic memories. Yet, it is within these specific challenges that they can precisely find their unique place.
Project name: The long circle B&B
Location: Beijing, China
Year: 2021-2023
Program: village B&B
Area: 1500 sqm
Architects: Nomos Architects (nomos-architects.com)
Landscape Design: Yu Chuanwen
Photographs: Xia Zhi & Li Shuangxi
Materials: stone, brick & coating
Village B&Bs in China often grapple with limitations due to the land policy, hindering their capacity for group activities. This restricted space also poses challenges in providing accommodations beyond basic lodging. Fortunately, this site, formed by combining four homesteads, presents an opportunity for a larger scale. However, the decentralized property rights of these plots create obstacles to achieving a single building.
Observing the existing village houses, most villagers build two south-facing houses along the southern and northern sides of residential plots, creating a courtyard in the middle. By removing the east-west boundary walls, we can establish a large communal courtyard, introducing a new scale. This Barcelona-like structure adeptly balances the demands of expanding the B&B's scale and ensuring independent land property rights.
Therefore, we adopted this structure and positioned eight detached buildings at the north and south ends of each of the four plots. The buildings are connected by corridors on the ground floor, forming a complete common space. Accommodation areas are mainly on the upper floor, with each group of rooms entirely independent and private. Uniform materials are used for the ground-floor walls and surrounding walls, creating a cohesive podium, while the upper floor utilizes the setbacks of plots and the difference in forms to create an image of detached masses. A central courtyard of nearly 600 square meters serves as the core space for common activities, with the flexibility to be subdivided to ensure future property claims.
Earlier buildings in this village use affordable materials like stones and bricks. We applied these materials to the new buildings, implementing sandwich insulation tectonics. Open angles in the brick walls reveal the non-structural function and indicate the insulation construction. The relatively newer self-built houses nearby use plaster and coating to improve the performance of plain bricks, covering their original flaws. We utilized these materials on the brick walls with the treatment like German smear, yet the texture of the exterior shale bricks was not entirely concealed, demonstrating the blend of industrial products and craftsmanship.
The interior extends the exterior color tones, offering various shared functions on the ground floor beyond simple accommodation. These include reception, exhibition, dining, coffee, audio-visual entertainment, and children's play. The upper-floor bedrooms aim to provide a comfortable environment while distinguishing themselves from typical urban hotels. We used solid platforms to serve as beds and facilities such as soaking tubs, along with modern heat pump floor heating, hoping to evoke rural memories of sleeping on heated brick beds, a traditional home facility in North China.
In contemporary China, village B&Bs straddle the line between urban and rural, facing challenges in reception capacity against property independence, industrialization against craftsmanship, and modern comfort against nostalgic memories. Yet, it is within these specific challenges that they can precisely find their unique place.
Project name: The long circle B&B
Location: Beijing, China
Year: 2021-2023
Program: village B&B
Area: 1500 sqm
Architects: Nomos Architects (nomos-architects.com)
Landscape Design: Yu Chuanwen
Photographs: Xia Zhi & Li Shuangxi
Materials: stone, brick & coating
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