Micro Hutong by ZAO/standardarchitecture, a new remodeling way
14/12/2016.
[Pekín] China
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Hutongs are a Chinese heritage that has been receiving special attention by architects lately, in an attemp to renovate its image and give them a second life capable of dialoguing with the present times.
Courtyard, Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Courtyard, Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wang Ziling, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Access. Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wu Qingshan, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
View from street. Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wang Ziling, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wang Ziling, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Courtyard detail, Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Courtyard, Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Courtyard, Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Room, Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Courtyard, Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Courtyard, Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wu Qingshan, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Across the rooftop, Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wu Qingshan, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Across the rooftop, Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wu Qingshan, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Across the rooftop, Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wu Qingshan, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Access from street, Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wu Qingshan, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Concept sketch, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Concept sketch, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Concept sketch, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Site plan, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Site plan, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Ground floor plan, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
First floor plan, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Diagram, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Diagram, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Elevation, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Section, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Section, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Section, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Model, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Model, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Model, Micro Hutong. Image © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wang Ziling, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Micro Hutong. Photograph © Wang Ziling, ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Inside vision. Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Inside vision. Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Inside vision. Micro Hutong. Photograph by Wu Qingshan © ZAO/standardarchitecture.
The Chinese practice ZAO/standardarchitecture is the one in charge of converting a Beijingese hutong into a youth hostel, through enhancing the characteristic patio of this type of construction. The result is a new atmosphere that explores the relation between habitational units, mixing the intersticial space with the access and common areas accesible for clients.
Description of the project by ZAO/standardarchitecture
The goal of this project, a 30 sqm hostel, is to search for possibilities of creating ultra-small scale social housing within the limitations of super-tight traditional hutong spaces of Beijing.
The result is an architectural operation that brings back the courtyard as a generator of the program, as it activates the building by creating a direct relationship with its urban context. Apart from enhancing the flow of air and light, the courtyard creates a direct relationship between the living space contained in the dynamic volumes and an urban vestibule in the front part of the building. This flexible urban living room acts as a transition zone from the private rooms to the street, while serving as a semi-public space to be used by both the inhabitants of the hostel and the neighbors of the community.
Micro Hutong inherits the intimate scale of the traditional hutong, revitalizing its social condensing capabilities, while enhancing it with spatial improvements.
More information
Architects
Zhang Ke and Zhang Mingming. ZAO/standardarchitecture.
Design team
Zhang Ke, Zhang Mingming, Huang Tanyu, Ao Ikegami, Dai Haifei.
Area
30 sqm
Date
2016
Client
Camerich
Zhang Ke ZAO/standardarchitecture
Founded by Zhang Ke in 2001, ZAO/standardarchitecture is a leading new generation design firm engaged in practices of planning, architecture, landscape, and product design. Based on a wide range of realized buildings and landscapes in the past ten years, the studio has emerged as the most critical and realistic practice among the youngest generation of Chinese architects and designers.
Consciously distance themselves from many of the other “typical” young generation architects who are swallowed by a trend of noise making, the office remain detached in a time of media frenzy and their focus is consistently positioned on the realization of urban visions and ideas. Although standardarchitecture’s built works often take exceptionally provocative visual results, their buildings and landscapes are always rooted in the historic and cultural settings with a degree of intellectual debate.
Consciously distance themselves from many of the other “typical” young generation architects who are swallowed by a trend of noise making, the office remain detached in a time of media frenzy and their focus is consistently positioned on the realization of urban visions and ideas. Although standardarchitecture’s built works often take exceptionally provocative visual results, their buildings and landscapes are always rooted in the historic and cultural settings with a degree of intellectual debate.
