Hutong Neighborhood Complex Primärfunktioun: Café, Gemeinschaftszentrum Interieur by Easy Arch is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award an Sëlwer in Inneraum an Ausstellungsdesign Competition Category.
SëlwerInterieur· 2021
Hutong Neighborhood Complex Primärfunktioun: Café, Gemeinschaftszentrum Interieur
by Easy Arch
Client: Joy Beans, Easy Arch
A' Design Award an Sëlwer Winner in Interieur Category
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The Design
About Hutong Neighborhood Complex Primärfunktioun: Café, Gemeinschaftszentrum Interieur
Den Hutong Neighborhood Complex ass e Café an e Gemeinschaftsinterieur an engem ale Haus an engem Hutong am Zentrum vu Peking. Déi zwee Stäck iwwerdecken 133 Quadratmeter. Den éischte Stack déngt als gedeelte Wunnzëmmer fir déi lokal Awunner. Den zweete Stack funktionéiert als Bäckgaart, wou beweeglech Planzekëschten de Raum no Funktioun opdeelen. Käschtegënschteg an ëmweltfrëndlech Materialie ginn op de Maueren an um Buedem benotzt, a Faarwen déi zum Hutong-Quartier passen. Déi al Zillmauer an d'Holzdaach gi behalen. De Raum beherbergt och Konschtausstellungen, Liesen an d'gedeelt Bürosnotzung.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award an Sëlwer
Hutong Neighborhood Complex Primärfunktioun: Café, Gemeinschaftszentrum Interieur ass e Gewënner vum A' Design Award an Sëlwer, enger aussergewéinlech prestigiéiser Unerkennung, déi un Designe vun der héchster Qualitéit, prächteg a beandrockend vergi gëtt. Sëlwer-Gewënner si bemierkenswäert brillant a ganz kreativ Wierker, déi d'erausragend Expertise, d'Talent an d'Schaarfsënnegkeet vun hire Designer weisen. Et gëtt erwaart, datt Hutong Neighborhood Complex Primärfunktioun: Café, Gemeinschaftszentrum Interieur e wonnerbart, mustergëlteg, bemierkenswäert professionellt an déif innovatiivt Wierk ass. Dëst mam Sëlwer ausgezeechent Design ass eng bemierkenswäert, bewonnert Erfindung, déi dozou bäidréit, d'Grenze vun der Konscht, der Wëssenschaft, vum Design an der Technologie ze erweideren. Hutong Neighborhood Complex Primärfunktioun: Café, Gemeinschaftszentrum Interieur ass eng Kreatioun, op déi vill neidesch sinn, déi Wënsch erweckt, positiv Gefiller bréngt an Erstaunen a Wonner erweckt.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The project is the renewal and activation of an old house, integrating the functions of coffee shop, art space, community shared living room, book corner, etc. It is Such a complex function building will increase the vitality of an old city, realize "urban micro renewal" and regain the Hutong Culture.
The 1st floor is called big living room in Hutong. The residents regard it as their own living room and the continuation of their home. The 2nd floor is called back garden in the alley. The movable plant box is used to divide the space according to the functional requirements of the space. Artists are regularly recruited to create works for the frontage art window. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Use Area of Two Floors: 133 Square Meters，
First Floor Platform Area: 14.3 Square Meters，
Second Floor Terrace Area: 17 Square Meters - Tags
- Urban Micro Renewal, Hutong Living Room, Hutong Back Garden, Art Gallery, Community Book Corner, Café shop, Shared Space
- Production Technology
- The walls and floors of the project are made of low-cost environmental protection materials. The color and texture are in line with the characteristics of the Hutong district. The glass is in line with the map of the Qianlong period in Beijing made of huge sulfuric acid paper to separate the space. The ultra-fine linear light belt flows to the wall along the top surface, making the eyes focus on the wall of landscape position, just like time flowing. In the gray wall of the old house, the sense of technology is compared.
- Design Challenge
- 1. The project is located in the old urban area, with the project as the center, the public space within 500meters is seriously lacking, and the area needs to share public space.
2. From the perspective of coffee shop operation, we must control the cost of renovation and find a balance between cost and design effect.
3. How to protect the old building structure. In the same space, avant-garde works of art coexist with the exposed old roof truss, colliding with different tastes. - Research
- PhilipM.Goldsmith, a great Canadian architect, said: "the most meaningful protection for an old building is to find a way to reuse it.". This project retains the blue brick exterior wall and wooden roof of the old building, continues the color of Beijing gray in the interior, injects coffee makers, living plants and community shared living rooms who are willing to communicate, and becomes a scarce public space in the core area of Beijing.
- Inspiration
- The project is an old house in the Hutong of the old city, near the famous Prince Gong's residence. The houses in the Hutong are very small and there is no centralized greening. Residents need a bigger living room and back garden. So the designer made the upper and lower floors into community living room and garden respectively. Add fashionable elements to the old house and inject new vitality into the life of Hutong with contrast. Through planning and transformation, different functions of different periods (such as coffee shop, shared office, art space, old people's lounge, etc.) are added to this space, so that the old house can redistribute its vitality and continue their life.
- Project Duration
- Design Time: November 2019 to December 2019
Construction Time: December 2019 to February 2020
Beijing, China - Operation Flow
- The project is close to the tourist area, and the multi-functional composite space is used. On weekends, Hutong visitors make full use of the space to drink coffee, read books and talk. On weekdays, due to the lack of tourists, part of the second floor becomes a shared office space. At the same time, free rest service is provided for the elderly in the community. It is also a free street art space with exhibitions of artists from Italy, Russia and China.
- Team Members
- Chen Yuwei
Ping Siwei
Zheng Chenxi
Li Jing - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Liu Lei
Image #2: Photographer Liu Lei
Image #3: Photographer Liu Lei
Image #4: Photographer Liu Lei
Image #5: Photographer Liu Lei
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