Rocha Cook Popina by Kaifeng Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Architectura Competition Category.

AesArchitectura· 2023

Rocha Cook Popina

by Kaifeng Zhang

Client: Zhangkaifeng Architectural Design Firm

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Architectura Category

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The Design

About Rocha Cook Popina

Rocha Cook popina est in valle montana prope Chengdu, in Sina exstructa. Consilium est instauratio veteris domus silva circumdatae, in loco qui urbem subiectam prospicit. Parietes albi in schemate geometrico sparso dispositi sunt et claustra efficiunt per quae lux et umbra per rimas transeunt. Structura ex cemento fusa est, et parietes exteriores pictura artificiosa alba perficiuntur. Area aedificii 266 metra quadrata est et altitudo aedificii 6,9 metra. Consilium rationem naturalisticam sequitur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

Rocha Cook Popina victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Rocha Cook Popina rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Rocha Cook Popina necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Back on June 3, 2019, The designer came here for the first time in the scorching summer. After nearly two months of site selection, The designer finally came to this mountain depression, saw an old house wrapped by the forest, climbed up the roof and was pleasantly surprised to see the whole city. Sitting on the courtyard wall, The designer began to imagine what kind of house to build at the designer feet. It should be natural, romantic, naive, quiet and passionate.
Dimensions & Packaging: Floor area: 6000 Square meters
Building area: 266 Square meters
Building height: 6.9 Meter
Tags: White House, The Most Beautiful Sunset Restaurant, Boundless Swimming Pool, Overlooking the City, Romantic Mid Levels.
Production Technology: Simple design materials, the whole is poured from concrete structure, and the outer wall adopts white art paint.
Design Challenge: In the reconstruction of old houses, the designers need to face some government conditions and changes in the nature of land, and meet the building specifications to achieve good design results.
After nearly three years of design and construction, Rocha cook encountered a rare rainstorm that washed away the foundation, experienced the once-in-a-century heavy snowfall and mountain closure in Chengdu, and survived the panic of the outbreak of the epidemic.
Research: The design technique is good at deconstructing a set of expression forms in line with modern aesthetics and cognition in the classical architectural structure based on naturalism and oriental aesthetics. It interprets elegant, artistic and fashionable works through modern materials combined with current popular colors, maintains its own unique aesthetic standards in the field of architecture and interior design, and successfully shapes one modern space with naturalistic charm after another.
Inspiration: White walls grow out of the soil, and they are freely combined into a barrier. The scattered relationship makes the light and shadow have different gaps to drill. Around here, you will be fascinated by a long picture like scenery. In the distance is the city the designers love. Turning around, the designers can see that the geometrically arranged walls sprout in the soil, like growing buildings. In fact, they are also alive.
Project Duration: Address: Chengdu City, China
Design Time: 2019.08
Completion Time: 2022.03
DesignStyle: Naturalism
Operation Flow: Exploration site, design, demolition, structural pouring, facade decoration, interior decoration, soft decoration yard and completion.
Image Credits: ProjectPhotography: ArchImageDengJuntao
Project Video: Zhu Jinfei、Li Yalong
Shooting design: April 25, 2022