
07新场擇一小院
上海
A spatial precedent showing a framed threshold view connecting interior circulation to a traditional-style courtyard garden with water and stone features.
- What we like about this project
- A bamboo water fountain (shishi-odoshi style) feeds a low mist-covered rockery basin.
Materials
- timber
- stone
- tile
- plaster
- moss
Visual identifiers
- courtyard
- mossy-garden
- timber-doorframe
- tiled-roof
Style tags
- vernacular
- contemporary
- traditional-fusion
Visual tags
- courtyard
- traditional-modern
- water-feature
- threshold
- landscape-integration
- Geometry
- Framed view through a timber door opening onto an asymmetric courtyard layout with covered walkway galleries.
- Facade system
- Traditional timber post-and-beam with white plaster walls and dark tiled eaves.
- Structural guess
- Timber post-and-beam traditional structure.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate human scale; low-slung eaves and pocket garden dimensions.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight illuminating the open courtyard while framing elements remain in shadow.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and contemplative, blending natural elements with architectural framing.
- Environmental context
- Traditional courtyard housing fabric within an urban or semi-urban context.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from dark interior threshold into a bright, inward-focused courtyard garden with layered spatial depth.
- Composition rhythm
- Grid pattern of the door panels juxtaposed against the organic lines of the courtyard tree and stone arrangement.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular integration
- Program
- Hospitality or residential retreat
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, stone, tile, plaster, moss
- Visual identifiers
- courtyard, mossy-garden, timber-doorframe, tiled-roof
- Style tags
- vernacular, contemporary, traditional-fusion
- Visual tags
- courtyard, traditional-modern, water-feature, threshold, landscape-integration
- Geometry
- Framed view through a timber door opening onto an asymmetric courtyard layout with covered walkway galleries.
- Facade system
- Traditional timber post-and-beam with white plaster walls and dark tiled eaves.
- Structural guess
- Timber post-and-beam traditional structure.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate human scale; low-slung eaves and pocket garden dimensions.
- Lighting
- Bright ambient daylight illuminating the open courtyard while framing elements remain in shadow.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and contemplative, blending natural elements with architectural framing.
- Environmental context
- Traditional courtyard housing fabric within an urban or semi-urban context.
- Spatial experience
- Transition from dark interior threshold into a bright, inward-focused courtyard garden with layered spatial depth.
- Composition rhythm
- Grid pattern of the door panels juxtaposed against the organic lines of the courtyard tree and stone arrangement.
- Style reading
- Contemporary vernacular integration
- Program
- Hospitality or residential retreat
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture