FLIPPED COURTYARD 反合院
2012 / Beijing, China 中国北京
The city of Beijing can be understood through one dominant type: the courtyard house. It serves as the most typical housing unit, and also transcends scale, embodying the overall structure of the city. However, such urban paradigm is challenged by new contemporary life style - the shrink in family size, the demand for individuality/privacy and the need of flexibility and re-adaptability. It raises the question: how can we create new housing typology in response to contemporary living patterns, while preserving the spatial character and sense of place of the city?
Flipped Courtyard speculates on such alternative typology. By flipping the mass-void relationship of Beijing courtyard house, new spatial paradigm emerges, with the possibility to evolve into new type. The ambition is to generate new spatial system wthat allowing different desensity model in relation to contemporary city.
Collaboration with Daren Tan
