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Beijing, China
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Xizhimen Port Apartment
Beijing, China
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2018
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
Project Credits
Total Area：11,500 sqm
Client：Vanke Beijing
Chief Designer: Wang Zhe
Participating Designer: Shi Wei, Wen Zewei, Wang Meilin, Zhang Yan, Han Qi, Hong Wei
Photography: Jin Weiqi
Construction Drawing: Victory Star
Interior Design: CUN Design
Decoration: Beijing 9h Design
Landscape design: LAC landscape and architecture Design
Logo design: Beijing ShiYu Four-Dimensional City Signs system Co.,Ltd.
On the urban stage, “iconic” buildings play a leading role that attracts the most attention, but those “unremarkable” buildings act as an invisible role in our daily life as these make up the urban experience that affects our lives. In Beijing, many of these old buildings have been built in recent decades, and a large proportion of them are no longer in line with the needs of urban development and are facing the need for functional and structural transformation. A wider range of urban renewal has gradually become a new subject for architects in China. The Xizhimen Port Apartment project is a renovation of an “unremarkable” old building, as an exploration of a new incremental practice of urban renewal in addition to experimental renovation projects for existing buildings instead of large-scale demolition and new construction.
One's residence and clothing represent a person's temperament. Apartments designed to inspire innovative young people naturally need a vibrant, attractive facade. The design organizes the variously spaced exposed beams and columns on the original facade while providing the housing for each room’s AC unit. The new façade was designed as a series of aluminum window frames projecting out from the exterior wall. The scale of the window frames increases at the building corner as if the entire building were twisting on the square as a vivid urban sculpture. Bright colors bring the façade a rich expression, and the inside of the window sleeve changes from orange at the top to yellow at the bottom, celebrating the color spectrum of the lunar eclipse and Beijing's golden autumns. By upgrading its facade, the Xizhimen Port Apartment serves to reshape the image of the city, stimulates the vitality of the community, and provides urban professionals with a warm home with a story and a dream.
Total Area：11,500 sqm
Client：Vanke Beijing
Chief Designer: Wang Zhe
Participating Designer: Shi Wei, Wen Zewei, Wang Meilin, Zhang Yan, Han Qi, Hong Wei
Photography: Jin Weiqi
Construction Drawing: Victory Star
Interior Design: CUN Design
Decoration: Beijing 9h Design
Landscape design: LAC landscape and architecture Design
Logo design: Beijing ShiYu Four-Dimensional City Signs system Co.,Ltd.
On the urban stage, “iconic” buildings play a leading role that attracts the most attention, but those “unremarkable” buildings act as an invisible role in our daily life as these make up the urban experience that affects our lives. In Beijing, many of these old buildings have been built in recent decades, and a large proportion of them are no longer in line with the needs of urban development and are facing the need for functional and structural transformation. A wider range of urban renewal has gradually become a new subject for architects in China. The Xizhimen Port Apartment project is a renovation of an “unremarkable” old building, as an exploration of a new incremental practice of urban renewal in addition to experimental renovation projects for existing buildings instead of large-scale demolition and new construction.
One's residence and clothing represent a person's temperament. Apartments designed to inspire innovative young people naturally need a vibrant, attractive facade. The design organizes the variously spaced exposed beams and columns on the original facade while providing the housing for each room’s AC unit. The new façade was designed as a series of aluminum window frames projecting out from the exterior wall. The scale of the window frames increases at the building corner as if the entire building were twisting on the square as a vivid urban sculpture. Bright colors bring the façade a rich expression, and the inside of the window sleeve changes from orange at the top to yellow at the bottom, celebrating the color spectrum of the lunar eclipse and Beijing's golden autumns. By upgrading its facade, the Xizhimen Port Apartment serves to reshape the image of the city, stimulates the vitality of the community, and provides urban professionals with a warm home with a story and a dream.
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