Design Process

Simple layout

Firstly, I identified how many rooms and what the rooms are in the building.
As a two-story building, there must be plenty of toilets and stairs, and as a double-function building, there will be a space like a hall to distinguish the public space from the activity space of the villagers. Also, as the teahouse and library are open to all as public Spaces, they are placed on the ground floor. The activity rooms are on the second floor. 

Then, generally speaking, the column spacing of the small building is 6 to 9 meters. And I decided the building was a square box.

Next, I found the length of the stairwell is less than the length of a column spacing due to the height of 3 meters. 

Then, I decided to dig out a piece of the space behind the stairs and open a door on the side as an entrance to the garden from a library or tea room inside.

So, I make a simple drawing blew in CAD. 

Module of Sketchup

Firstly，based on this simple diagram, I made a model.

Then, I started trying to pull the block up.

Next, I suddenly think of something if it is better to put those small boxes on the ground floor or the first floor. 

If the boxes appear on the ground floor, I can use the top as a first-floor terrace or as a gentle slope top. However, the patio in the activity room is a space with very low utilization rate, and making a gentle slope does not seem to look good. 

So I arranged the protruding boxes on the second floor.

Then, I began to make more elaborate models.

'Tadao Ando's Liangzhu Village Cultural Art Centre'(Cen, 2018)

Next, Since the library needed to be quiet, I arranged the reading space on the side near the garden. In the previous reference, it was a good experience to face the water with a large glass curtain wall in 'Tadao Ando's Liangzhu Village Cultural Art Centre' (Cen, 2018). So I made the library space a glass wall next to the garden wall, and then set up a wading pool next to the building for children to play in.

Then, I found that this two-piece eave has only two directions, while the prominent space box is in the other direction, so a large roof covering the entire building is made as 'Studio Dali Architects'community cultural centre' (Han, 2019).

Next, I tried to design the surface.

Then, I started to design the bookshelf in the library. I decided to design a steel stair to the first floor in the library.

Next, I put it on the module and found The corridor seemed dark. 

So, I set a window on both the north and south of two floors.

Then, I designed the garden briefly according to my initial sketchbook. I made a chair to match the building and put it in the garden.

my initial sketchbook

chair

Next, when I looked at the space in the building, I found that the big room on the second floor across it maybe too dark, because there were only Windows at the end. I had a skylight on the roof porch, with high side Windows on both sides of the hallway to keep the light up.

Finally, the model is done for the time being, and then it is painted as CAD.

Reference:

Cen.L. (2018) Tadao Ando’s Liangzhu Village Cultural Art Centre Through the Lens of Zheng Shi [www] archdaily.com. 

Available from: https://www.archdaily.com/897963/tadao-andos-liangzhu-village-cultural-art-centre-through-the-lens-of-zheng-shi [Accessed 26/04/20].

Han.S. (2019) Community Cultural Center, Series Projects of Xiaoshi Village Overall Planning / Studio Dali Architects [www] archdaily.com. 

Available from: https://www.archdaily.com/931260/community-cultural-center-series-projects-of-xiaoshi-village-overall-planning-studio-dali-architects [Accessed 26/04/20].