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Beijing Guantang Yunding Villa

EA Architects

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Living room - Bo Lv, Yan Chen
Multifunctional area - Bo Lv, Yan Chen
Dining area - Bo Lv, Yan Chen
Living room - Bo Lv, Yan Chen

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JURY VOTES
House
6.54
6.55
6.90
5.84
6.46
Anthony Gargiulo
Anthony Gargiulo SVP Design Innovation and Transformation at Compass Group
Minimalism at its best, great use o...
7.05
7.94
7.69
6.72
7.35
Wayne Turett
Wayne Turett Founder and Principal at The Turett Collaborative : Architecture and Interior Design
There are surprisingly a lot of thi...
6.27
6.85
7.74
7.01
6.97
Jacques Chevrant
Jacques Chevrant UX Lead and Architect at Revalu
A beautiful palette that considers...
7.8
8
8
5
7.2
Gerrit Vos
Gerrit Vos Founder and Creative Director at Workshop of Wonders
A home full of surprises with a out...
6.95
6.01
7.1
5
6.27
Karim El-Ishmawi
Karim El-Ishmawi Managing Director and Cofounder at Kinzo
I like the use of color, which make...
7
7.26
7.35
6.7
7.08
Jing Ju
Jing Ju Senior Designer, Global Creative Visual Merchandising at Tiffany & Co.
6.81
6.61
7.54
6.92
6.97
Cheng Gong
Cheng Gong Studio Director China at Snøhetta
5
5
5
5
5
Valentina Mariani
Valentina Mariani Journalist and Art Curatour at Valentina Mariani
6.7
6.9
7.5
6.3
6.85
Alex Yang
Alex Yang Partner and Creative Director at MOC Design Office
The combination of orange and blue...
5.7
6
6.2
5.7
5.9
Hilde Francq
Hilde Francq Founder at Francq Colors Trend Studio
6.17
6.26
7.03
5.97
6.36
Sneha Divias
Sneha Divias Founder at Sneha Divias Atelier
6.58
6.12
5.97
5
5.92
Andreas Weidner
Andreas Weidner Head of Retail at Silhouette Group
6.5
6
7
5
6.13
Sheng Wang
Sheng Wang Founder and Design Director at Informal Design
6
6.8
6.5
6.5
6.45
Pinar Harris
Pinar Harris Vice President and Principal at SB Architects
7
6
6
5
6
Client
Ms He
Floor area
410 ㎡
Completion
2023
Finishes

This case is a vacation villa located in Beijing, for a family of three and their pets. The design is inspired by nature, which is "the way it originally appears". Nature is where we come from. With minimal design intervention, the space is created to be minimalist and void, yet it captures the essence of the natural world. Breaking away from the traditional concept of a unified main color, each floor displays different hues found in nature, restoring the colors of classical Chinese aesthetics.

The vertical space spans five floors. Among the five floors, only the bathroom and daughter's bedroom have doors, while other spaces are open and connected. Using micro-cement custom-mixed colors, each of the five open spaces has its own color and function.

The third floor is the master bedroom for the couple and is also the place where the sun first shines in the house. The entire roof's three-dimensional soft film light will automatically turn on according to the set wake-up time, simulating the sunrise by slowly turning from dark to golden yellow, blending with the natural light from the skylight, starting the day beautifully.
The second floor is the daughter's living and study space. Based on the daughter's color preferences, this layer is designed with the gradation color of the sunset's afterglow. The colors range from the purest orange for the main bedroom wardrobe to the orange-pink bathroom, spreading to the light pink of other areas.

The daughter enjoys painting with watercolors, and the bathroom's shower wall uses watercolor brushstroke-inspired orange-pink gradient ceramic tiles, complemented by a long strip drain and an orange-pink micro-cement floor and walls. The study area has a semi-enclosed wall with an L-shaped cut at the corner, and sitting at the 3.5-meter-long suspended study desk, the view just reaches through the opening to the public area, which also provides a flat space for the pet, who likes to climb. The east side wall of the study area is a full-length lacquered glass whiteboard for writing, calculations, and discussions, with a white steel plate suspended bookshelf and reading space alongside. Between the study area and the bedroom is a tatami area where lying on the soft white linen cushions, one can admire the gradation pink artistic wall tiles. The tatami also features storage capabilities.

The first floor is the living room and dining room for the entire family. Professional baking equipment is placed in the open kitchen area, and in front of a large area of pure white appliance wall is a custom-made pure copper-colored island, which also has a texture when focusing on hand-kneading dough. In addition to the overall micro-cement, the kitchen and bathroom areas are custom-made with terrazzo containing seaside shells, recycling the colorful seashells within the main materials, creating a material cycle in the name of natural regeneration for sustainable beauty.