Yi Xiao · CLIENT: Atelier Yi
Banyan Pavilion is a convenience store interior in a historic district of Fuzhou, China, set beside a century old banyan tree. The existing brick structure is retained and reinforced with steel. The original facade is opened by a folding sliding door, which creates a closer connection with the street. White shelving and the edge of the banyan pool form a complete circular space. The ground is paved with permeable stone to keep water available for the tree, and a raised terrazzo platform offers outdoor seating. Hand woven rattan boards cover the shelf grid.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- The project is situated in a historic district Which next to a middle school and behind a century old banyan tree. This project was discussed as a new type of convenience store model influenced by e-commerce.The facade of the architecture was opened facing the block,and It was formed a complete circular public space combined with banyan trees, redefining the relationship between the inner space with banyan trees, as well as the relationship between architecture and streets.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 36㎡
brick , steel , adhesive stone , terrazzo , rattan board - Tags
- Historic district , architecture renovation , banyan tree , landscape / public space / convenience store
- Production Technology
- The brick structure was retained and reinforced with steel structure. The original facade is opened by folding sliding door which creats a closer connection with the street. The white shelf and the boundary of banyan pool form a complete circle space. The ground adopts permeable sticky stone to ensure the water for banyan trees, and the raised terrazzo platform is used in the shop to create an exterior seats. The grid of the self corresponds to the texture of the brick wall and the grid surface layer adopts the rattan board wove by hand to echo with the Ficus epidermis.
- Design Challenge
- In this project, the architect should deal with the relationship between the new and the old, the relationship between the architecture and the street, the relationship between the space and the banyan tree in the architectural transformation of the historical district.
- Project Duration
- The project is located in Fuzhou, China. It starts in March 2019 and completed in January 2020.
- Operation Flow
- This project is not only a general store interior design, the architect use minimal interventions to solve multi-dimensional practical problems at the same time. The importance of banyan trees in this place is emphasized by combining architectural space with street and landscape to provide a place for public activities.
- Research
- In this project, the architect exploring the basic method of the transformation of the old architecture: a starting point to shape the place instead of just the transformation of the internal space.So that the architecture becomes a part of the environment, together with the landscape and streets to form a part of community life.
- Inspiration
- Based on the banyan tree on the site, the project proposes a comprehensive environmental strategy to reshape the relationship between architecture, context and landscape, people activities and crowded street traffic. It forms an important public space in the environment of the historical district.
- Image Credits
- Image#1:Photographer Xinyun Cheng,Banyan Pavilion,2020.
Image#2: Photographer Xiao Yi, Banyan Pavilion,2020.
Image#3: Photographer Xiao Yi, Banyan Pavilion,2020.
Image#4: Photographer Xiao Yi, Banyan Pavilion,2020.
Image#5: Photographer Xiao Yi, Banyan Pavilion,2020.
Video Credits:Creator Xiao Yi, Banyan Pavillion,2020.
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