Case Study

Keywords

Before designing, I need to search for something about my project to get some inspiration. I should think about how to choose my case study.

First, this is a community centre.
The project is designed to be located in Xidi village, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, China. It is in a small village in the mountains, where the houses are crowded but with distinct characteristics of classical Chinese architecture. The houses around the site are no taller than six meters. The size of the site is 25m*35m. 

site

surrounding

Then, the keywords of this project should be:
1) village
2)classical Chinese feather
3) small area
4) community centre
5) I like

After searching for some buildings, I found that there are three cases that I have searched for and I like. 

Case1

Liangzhu Village Cultural Art Centre/Tadao Ando 

The building is located in the historic Liangzhu Village, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, designed by Tadao Ando. Although it is a very big building, it really makes me impressive. 

This is from Cen (2018)

Architectural concrete, tamed in Ando's hands, exists as unvarnished as poetry.  

This is from Cen (2018)

In the building, the local library is designed to use bookshelves as partition walls, which is very interesting to divide the space. 

The triangle seems to appear everywhere in the building, from the landscape to the triangular skylights on the roof. There seems to be no pattern, walking in the building will suddenly have the sunlight streaming down. 

This is from Cen (2018)

This is from Cen (2018)

Also, there is a wading pool in the outside of the building, which is shallow with the cherry trees.

Case 2

Capsule Hotel and Bookstore in Village Qinglongwu / Atelier tao+c

'This is located in an ancient village named after a stream in a deep forest in Tonglu, Zhejiang province. An old wooden and mud-walled house is entwined on a path in the village, facing the green mountains to the south and east, and the lower courtyard to the north.'
(Text description provided by the architects.) 

This is from Han (2019)

This is from Han (2019)

'Commissioned by the client, studio tao + c redesigned and rebuilt the 232-square-metre old building by inserting a 20-person capsule hotel, community bookstore and library into a 7.2-metre two-storey space.'

(Text description provided by the architects.) 

This is from Han (2019)

I have never been to this place, but it is interesting to see the variety of staircases in a large, full-height space. And at the end of the bookshelf in the corner of the house is a glass to form a transparent large space, very suitable for meditation.

Case3

Community Cultural Center / Studio Dali Architects

This is a cultural centre built in a small village after the earthquake reconstruction. 

This is from Han (2019)

This is from Han (2019)

A large roof with local characteristics that wraps the entire building, when the height of the surrounding space in the roof is insufficient，opening a hole in the roof to form a large platform for communication and the latter atrium. 

It also is an interesting building.

Inspirations(may)

I was inspired by some element of these cases.

• I may use the bookshelf walls from cases 1 and 2 in my building's reading space.
• I may use the outdoor wading pool from case 1 in the garden.
• I may use the large roof from case 3.
• For the main building materials, I used Architectural concrete from case 1.

Reference of  pictures and words :

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) Capsule Hotel and Bookstore in Village Qinglongwu / Atelier tao+c [www] archdaily.com. 

Available from: https://www.archdaily.com/930862/capsule-hotel-and-bookstore-in-village-qinglongwu-atelier-tao-plus-c [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].