The housing renovation project locates at Nanxiang, Shanghai. The building space is a rectangular space of 17 meters *6.6 meters. A river flows at the south of the house. It’s the expression of space reveals the meaning of time. The project supplies living space for a six members’ family. The host and hostess are engaged in design and media, they need independent studios respectively. Their parents favor quiet living space with convenience and relative spaces are designed particularly for their children. The overall color of the room appears as white tone. With the stairs and increased size of the patio, we enhance the layers between spaces to create diversity and enjoyment. Transparencies are introduced into the family’s public activity area, increasing the convergence of family members’ independent spatial scope. By diminishing the floor slabs we extend the patios into basement for better solar access and ventilation. Fatherly the change of four seasons can be experienced as well. Interior floor reaches out as exterior platform; French windows are set to diminish the boundaries, blending light and landscape into interior. The second floor integrates safety aspects of the elderly and children like the chamfer of the wall edges, the central island, and the induction of night lights.
The House with Lights and Shadows
XuTai Studio

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