An-age-of-innocence

The project is a brick-concrete house built in 1970s, with a wooden roof structure. It belongs to the non-protected residential area in Nanjing Historical Reserve of the Republic of China. With the change of the city, it is waiting for the arrival of a new owner. As a "school district room" with a history of more than 50 years, it is the new home of Sansan mother, Maomao father and Jiujiu baby. A new chapter of "San Mao Jiu" family is about to begin. 

The designer strips the space of its original traces, restores the most genuine state, respects the architecture, preserves the texture, and enhances the sense of space atmosphere through "weak design", as an important medium for "San Mao Nine" to welcome a better life, the design focuses on the relationship between people and space, respects the mutual needs of a family of three, constructs a comfortable residential environment, and emphasizes the integration and independence of space. 

The advantages of double-pitched roof can increase the local partition, break the single space's closure, reorganize the space, expand the functional area, tailor the whole and individual exclusive living areas for a family of three, solve the original structural restrictions of opening and closing, and reshape the scene and function of the home. 

Home is a place with temperature, and the design needs to give it more feelings such as peace, pleasure and sharing. As the most direct feedback of life, home does not need conventional style and seemingly rational design, it should be the sustenance for family members to release their feelings and seek freedom. 

The first floor is the main venue of the home, with a central axis dividing the two large spaces on the left and right. The left side is an open dining and kitchen space, which is interconnected with the living room, where the family can be seen playing at any time. On the right side is an integrated rest space exclusively belonging to Sansan mother and Maomao father. 

The second floor is the growth world of Jiujiu baby. There is a swing in the living room. Jiujiu will sit on it and grow up unsteadily, smiling and talking with childlike faces. The designer left doorways of different sizes in the common area, these "channels" amplify the visual and auditory senses between family members, no matter where you are, I can always see you in another space. The constant outpouring of emotions in the space is the exuberant vitality of the family. Children are growing up, but their families will not change, and the memories belonging to their families are quietly kept in every place.