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Qishe Courtyard

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7 Back courtyard study - Wang Ning
1  Front courtyard - Wu Qingshan
2 Facade - Wang Ning
7 Back courtyard study - Wang Ning

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JURY VOTES
House
8.29
8.43
8.57
8.43
8.43
Nathan Watts
Nathan Watts Creative Director at Interstore
Masterful melding of old and new. S...
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8.75
Simon Goff
Simon Goff Founder and Director at Floor_Story
Outstanding project combining old w...
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9
Ting Yu
Ting Yu Chief Architect at Wutopia Lab
8
8
7
8
7.75
Nic Granleese
Nic Granleese CEO and Cofounder at BowerBird
beautiful curves, detailing and lig...
8
8
8
8
8
Frank Lee
Frank Lee Founder and President at Shanghai Fengyuzhu Culture Technology
7
7
9
8
7.75
Lorcan O'Herlihy
Lorcan O'Herlihy Founder, Design Principal at Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA]
A great project with its balance of...
9
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9
Tobias Geisler
Tobias Geisler Cofounder at VAVE Studio
WOW! hope to see this on Airbnb....
9
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9
Janne van Berlo
Janne van Berlo Founder at Atelier van Berlo
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8.75
Yanchih Wang
Yanchih Wang President and Chief Designer at GD-Lighting Design
9
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9
Doris Sung
Doris Sung Principal/Director of Undergraduate Programs at DOSU Studio Architecture/USC School of Architecture
9
8
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8
8.5
Jeff Yrazabal
Jeff Yrazabal President at SRG Partnership
6
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8
7
Victoria Yakusha
Victoria Yakusha Founder and chief architect at Yakusha Studio & FAINA Collection of live design
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8.5
Akanksha Deo Sharma
Akanksha Deo Sharma Designer at Ikea
Beautiful integration of the old an...
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8
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Julio Kowalenko
Julio Kowalenko Cofounder at Atelier Caracas
9
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GRAND JURY VOTES
Shortlisted - House of the Year
8.48
8.43
8.84
8.43
8.55
Martin Mostböck
Martin Mostböck Founder and creative director at AID at Martin Mostböck. AID - ArchitectureInteriorsDesign
8.29
8.43
8.84
8.43
8.5
Hana Ahriz
Hana Ahriz Co-founder at Space & Pepper
8.78
8.43
8.86
8.43
8.63
Howard Duffy
Howard Duffy Founder at HTDSTUDIO Arkitekter AB
This is a residence as 'sacred spac...
8.74
8.43
9.38
8.43
8.75
Zaiba Mian
Zaiba Mian Professor at Humber College
Interior sanctuary provides a welco...
8.31
8.43
8.57
8.43
8.44
Michael Long
Michael Long Director at _novospace
A fantastic combination of old and...
8.29
8.43
8.57
8.43
8.43
Designer
Floor area
500 ㎡
Completion
2020
Chief designer
Han Wenqiang
Project designer
Wang Tonghui
Structural consulting
Zhang Yong, BAMBOO ERA
Mechanical & electrical consulting
Zheng Baowei, Yu Yan, Li Dongjie
Lighting consulting
Dong Tianhua
Plant consulting
Zhang Xiaoguang
Image editing
Wang Tonghui, Wen Chenhan
Construction team
Chen Weixing, BAMBOO ERA

As approaching the project, the design firm set two goals: renovating the old and inserting the new. The veranda functions as a circulation route, reshapes the spatial pattern and layers, and provides a playful walking experience. The front courtyard is mainly used as a garage. ARCHSTUDIO retained its pitched roof, removed the front and back walls, and shifted the entrance door to the side, so as to leave more space for parking. The middle courtyard is a public activity space. It previously contained three houses, one on the north, two on the sides. Based on its original layout, ARCHSTUDIO set a living room, a tea room, a dining room and a kitchen, etc. in this area. The designers adopted a symmetric spatial pattern, which inherits the sense of formality of traditional courtyard buildings. The back courtyard is a dwelling space, mainly consisting of two bedrooms, a tea room, and a study. The old building walls were restored, by reusing the gray bricks from demolished temporary architectural blocks in the courtyards. The floor of outdoor spaces is paved with the same type of bricks, to ensure visual consistency. Some of the new walls are formed by glass bricks, which have the same size as the old gray bricks.