Architecture 咖菲论阿柒-In Nanjing

This is my first time to see snow

Two China gals are making snowman

photos from SooYong

Corn Craft

Studio Toogood designs, directs and executes interiors and environments from concept through to creation. Offering event, interior and exhibition design as well as styling and set design for the interior and fashion industries, the Studio’s projects range from the two-dimensional page to the three-dimensional space, and from the real to the conceptual.

 Corn Craft

Under the creative direction of London-based interior stylist Faye Toogood, the Studio collaborates with clients who seek alternative ways of developing their brand. Its distinctive approach disregards convention in favour of something altogether more brave, joyous and impulsive.

Corn Craft

The members of the Studio are able to draw on a wide range of talents and diverse backgrounds, including fine art, history of art, curation and interior design.

Comme des Garcons

Liberty

Liberty

Tom Dixon

Tom Dixon

Tom Dixon

Habitat

All above images and text from Studio Toogood

Alice’s Tea Party is an installation by Nendo in Tokyo for an event held at Ozone Living Design Center, celebrating the 100th anniversary of English tea brand LIPTON in Japan.

Nendo created Alice’s tea party based on the Mad  Hatter’s Tea Party in the story ALice in the Wonderland.Tables and chairs  have being distorted to create a sense of receding depth in the room.

The purposely distorted furnitures bring the visitors into a space which seems to be long and narrow. Visitors might have to squeeze into the chairs or hanging while sitting on their chairs as the designer shrank and enlarged some of the chairs.

Nendo

Tokyo’s kisala Restaurant is composed of four areas: one counter each for Japanese food and Western food, a cigar bar, and a private dining room. We gave each space a different feel by varying the tone of the floorboards, and gradually increased the brightness of the floorboards to connect the space. Equally subtly, the spaces for the cigar bar and private dining area are defined by lace curtains, and mirrored panels give discrete spaces the feeling of being connected. Textiles with colours chosen to match the tones of the floorboards give a sense of texture

All above images and text from Nendo

As a given assignment for a class named Basic Preservation and Management of Architecture Legacy, 8 of us are assigned to measure a few houses (民居）located at Mingyang road (鸣阳街）

The residents who stay here have moved out recently and the condition of the houses are in a mess. We  have to climb into the house through the backyard window.

We were told to assemble at the site  last Saturday and were shortly brief through by a guided teacher.Three people have to work in a group to complete the whole measure drawing in 2 weeks.

The back  of the house is in a mess.

The added concrete structure at the back elevation.

The houses allocated for our group is quite big  ,but there are not much details except the old doorways. The space layout follows Chinese traditional courtyard design where a few collection of blocks are separated by courtyard.

 There are visible added concrete structure to the original building.

 The orginal door

internal rooms with skylight

First floor is brick and timber structure while second floor structure is mainlyconstructed by timber.

 The whole house is using the wood ladder rather than a proper staircase to connect first floor and second floor.According to our measure drawing teacher, our drawings will be used for the future conservation of this area after they dismantled the whole site.

Meiyuan Xincun No. 30

Having a short visit to Meiyuan Xincun Village 梅园新村 last weekend. Meiyuan Xincun Village mainly accomodating a few houses built during Mingguo time. There are few houses with important historical value  which undergo conservation process conducted  by Southeast University Architecture Research Institute.

Meiyuan Xincun No. 30 

Meiyuan Xincun nos. 17, 30 and 35 have significant historical value as they were CPC delegation Nanjing office of China Communist Party, led by Zhou Enlai during their effort to negotiations with Kuomintang. The CPC delegation have stayed in the village for nearly ten months.

Meiyuan Xincun No. 30

Meiyuan Xincun No. 30

Meiyuan Xincun No. 30

Meiyuan Xincun No. 30

Meiyuan Xincun No. 35

The 3 houses have a strong China Republic Era style, with fair-faced grey brickwork, wooden doors and windows, and plain yet simple ornaments. The Chinese Communist Party delegation increased the wall height at the courtyard to prevent the monitoring and destroying of Kuomintang spies.

Meiyuan Xincun No. 35

Meiyuan Xincun No. 35

Meiyuan Xincun No. 17

Meiyuan Xincun No. 17

Meiyuan Xincun No. 17

Meiyuan Xincun No. 17

Meiyuan Xincun No. 17

 Meiyuan Xincun No. 17

 The 3 historical houses are converted into memorial museum and are opened for free.

Chen House
Taiwan, 2007-2008,
Residential buildings / Country houses
Marco Casagrande (1971)

CHEN HOUSE - The house is realized on an old Japanese cherry-farm in the Datun -mountains of North-Taiwan. It is designed as a vessel to react on the demanding wind, flooding and heat conditions on the site. -

The house is a stick raised above the ground in order to let the flood waters run under it. The different spaces are connected to a flexible movement within the axis of outdoor and indoor functions.

The smaller bathroom and kitchen unit acts as a kicker stabilizing the wooden structure during the frequent typhoons and earthquakes. - The bio-climatic architecture is designed to catch the cool breeze from the Datun -river during the hot days and to let in the small winds circulating on the site between the fresh water reservoir pond and the farmlands.

 A fire place is used during the winter for heating and for cooking tea. In connection with the bathroom is a small sauna. - The house is not strong or heavy – it is weak and flexible. It is also not closing the environment out, but designed to give the farmers a needed shelter. - Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature. With this house we were looking forward to design a ruin. -

All above images and info from : world architecture community

Room Cafe

SAAI is  Korea based architects specialized in Architecture, Interior ,urban and landscape. 

Room Cafe

Select their  2 cafe interior projects to be posted here as I like the “house” style designed cafe especially in a small available spaces.  

Room Cafe

The selection of materials indoor and outdoor presented a comfortable environment of the cafe.

Room Cafe

“D” avant Cafe

“D” avant Cafe

“D” avant Cafe

 ”D” avant Cafe

“D” avant Cafe

“D” avant Cafe

  All above images from SAAI

Xiao Ling Tomb is the tomb of the Hongwu Emperor ZhuYuan Chang of the Ming Dynasty.With a 600 years of history,most of the timber constructed pavilions are not longer existed, however the overall tomb planning is still visible.

The sacred path  started from the Dismounting Archway (下马坊）where visitors of the past should disount from their horses and pay respects to the tomb owner. The path will continue to the Rectangular city (四方城）which housed the majestic tablet erected by Emperor Zhu Di, the fourth son of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Following will be the Stone Elephant Road (石象路神道）， 615 meters long formed the first part of the sacred path. 12 pairs of different postures stone carved animals: lions, Xiezhi,camels,elephants,unicorns,and horses lied along the road guiding the tombs.

Rectangular City  called Si Fang Cheng

The top of the pavilion was gone.

 



The second part of the sacred path, Weng Zhong Road  is formed by 4 pairs of generals and ministers (文武官）and a pair of decorative columns known as Hua Biao (华表) .

Leading towards the north-south direction, there is a Dragon and PhoenixG Gate (龙凤门).

The overall planning of the mausoleum.

Civil and Military Gate, the first gate to the graveyard of the Ming Tomb.

Imperial Tablet hall , built under the order of Qing Emperor Kangxi

Sacrificial hall orXiaoling hall was built in 16th year under the reign of Emperor Hongwu for the memorial tablets of Zhu Yuan Chang and his empress and concubines.

Inner Red Gate
Ming Tower (明楼）is  the commanding point of Ming Tomb, built on top of a rectangular citadel , was destroyed during reign of Qing Emperor  Xiang Feng. Now only the rectangular citadel is original. 

Behind the wall was the Ming Tai Zu tomb. （明太祖之墓地）

Every brick which was used to  construct the citadel, has the bricks maker “copyright” cop on all of them.  

Surrounded by the 1000 meters long  tall wall is the Treasure Mound (宝顶) ,a circular mound with 325-400m in  diameters which housed the Emperor Zhu Yuan Chang and his Empress Ma  underground tomb palace.