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Somekh Building Renovation

Shisuo Design Office

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Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
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JURY VOTES
Cultural Space
5.37
5.11
5.84
5.88
5.55
Tugba Okcuoglu
Tugba Okcuoglu Creative Concept and Customer Experience Developer at Ingka Centers
Hard to comment since it is restore...
5
5
5
5
5
Maja Bernvill
Maja Bernvill Creative Director at Specific Generic
Attractive space that confidently c...
5
5
8
8
6.5
Sanchit Arora
Sanchit Arora Principal Architect at Renesa Studio
love the overlap of the old and the...
5.5
6
5.5
6.5
5.88
Jan Clostermann
Jan Clostermann Founder and Director at CLOU Architects
5
5
6
5
5.25
Jorge Mendez Caceres
Jorge Mendez Caceres Creative Director at BDG Architecture & Design
Great merge of old and new. What i...
8.08
2.95
8.29
7.85
6.79
Adi Utama
Adi Utama Global Office Development at JetBrains
5
5
5
5
5
Justine Fox
Justine Fox Founder and Colour Specialist at Studio Justine Fox
5
5
6.6
6.68
5.82
Bin Ju
Bin Ju Founder and Chief Design Director at Horizontal Design
4.17
5.62
4.17
5.54
4.88
Constance Guisset
Constance Guisset Founder at Constance Guisset Studio
7
7
7
7
7
Marie Hesseldahl
Marie Hesseldahl Partner and Head of Interior and Product Design at 3xn
6
6
6
6
6
Marie-Andree Busque
Marie-Andree Busque Director Interior Architecture at Sid Lee Architecture
5
6
6
4
5.25
Islam El Mashtooly
Islam El Mashtooly Creative Director at OBMI
7
6
7
7
6.75
Jason Chan
Jason Chan Founder at Jason Design Group
3.81
4.12
4.01
4.64
4.15
Liyun Hao
Liyun Hao Founder and Design Director at EVD
5
5
5
5
5
Stéphane Bernier
Stéphane Bernier Partner and Director of Retail Strategy and Innovation at Ædifica
4
3
4
5
4
Client
Somekh Building Office
Floor area
650 ㎡
Completion
2022
Budget
£200,000
Social Media
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Revive the Ruins - Somekh Building Renovation
Somekh Building is located in the historical and cultural area of the Bund. It is one of the most important works of the renowned Atkinson & Dallas Co. Ltd in Modern Shanghai(1920s). Based on a historical research, site conditions and functional requirements, corresponding design strategies have been developed. It is believed that the renovation of historic buildings is by no means a simple replication, nor is it a neglect or rough interference with history. 

Instead, it presents a clear and identifiable balance between preservation and renewal, repair and deconstruction, memory and the present. Unlike the other adaptive reuse projects, a renovation to heritage building not only about repairing and presenting the authentic look of history, but also careful and precise intervention, creating new space which should follow the historic clue at the same time meet current functional requirement. 

In this case, design practice from SHISUO shows how newly-created space can be blended in with the historical context in a subtle way.