Housetelier
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| Housetelier at night: urban lantern |
For the Beijing Design Week WAI responded to an invitation to
rethink the Dashila District through specific architectural interventions that
could renovate the area.
The result is the Housetelier, which reuses the courtyard
typology of the Chinese hutong and converts it into a mixture of atelier,
house, gallery and office.
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| Dashila Site Plan |
Catalyst
Can architecture be an urban catalyst? How to regenerate an
urban zone with interventions of specific forms of architecture?
By designing a space based on the three points of work, exhibit
and live, the Housetelier creates the ideal conditions to
attract creative enterprises that could enhance the urban context in the
Dashila District both by contributing to its micro economy and by fomenting
cultural and intellectual exchange through activities and events.
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| Couryard + Gallery + Atelier |
Program
Conceived as an architectural prototype for urban
re-development, the Housetelier integrates office space,
gallery space, and living space in a seamless architectural strategy. By
creating spaces that are visually related to a central courtyard, but that
could also be accessed independently, the Housetelier could be
used by up to three different tenants simultaneously.
The first level of the building situates at each of the four
sides of the courtyard an atelier, service space (kitchen, storage, and
restrooms), office space, and gallery space in a sequence of spaces that relate
visually and spatially.
The Second Level of the building includes a residential
apartment whose main spaces are arranged around the central courtyard.
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| Housetelier at day:abstract box |
Lantern
Treated with a translucent polycarbonate main façade, the Housetelier looks
radically neutral during the day, while it turns into a kaleidoscopic lantern
during the night, inviting those who wander around to discover the contents of
the building.
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| Plan Level 1 |
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| Plan Level 2 |
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