Located in an historical village site of Fujian, Studio ZHU is a renovation project that transforms original four-story “modern Chinese village building” into a boutique guesthouse. Within the original building framework, Design team proposed an interior courtyards strategy that resonates with the traditional housing typological layout of north Fuj...
Project name
Studio Zhu Renovation
Architecture firm
Wenya Liu / Zi Meng
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, AutoCAD, Maxwell, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Design team
Wenya Liu, Zi Meng, Yangyang Liu, Zhaoqi Chen
Visualization
Wenya Liu, Zi Meng, Yangyang Liu, Zhaoqi Chen
Typology
Residential › House, Renovation
As a typical picturesque Chinese Jiangnan town, the village of Jijiadun locates about 1.5-hour drive from the central city of Shanghai. With the rapid development of urbanization in China, the problem of rural hollowing-out is becoming increasingly serious
Architecture firm
B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio
Location
Jijiadun Village, Kunshan City, China
Principal architect
Shuhei Aoyama, Yoko Fujii, Yixin Yang, Yu Cao, Lu Chen
Material
(exterior) laminated bamboo, white stucco, matte white metal roofing, galvanized steel sheet / (interior) terrazzo, exposed aggregate concrete, wood, stucco
Typology
Residential › Boutique Guesthouse
