Historic_Courtyard_ex3_it02_2019-02-25
北京
A courtyard architectural precedent by Daipu Architects contrasting historic gray brick and timber with experimental transparent inflated facade elements.
- What we like about this project
- An undulating, inflated transparent plastic membrane wrapping around the timber columns of the left pavilion.
Materials
- gray-brick
- timber
- glass
- transparent-plastic
- stone-pavers
- clay-tile
Visual identifiers
- gray-brick
- transparent-plastic-facade
- courtyard-paving
- timber-structure
Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular
- adaptive-reuse
- experimental-materiality
Visual tags
- historic-renovation
- courtyard
- adaptive-reuse
- hybrid-materials
- twilight-lighting
- Geometry
- An internal courtyard arrangement flanked by traditional-style single-story structures with gray brick walls and tiled pitched roofs, connected by a continuous paved ground plane.
- Facade system
- Combination of traditional brick masonry walls, clear glass storefronts, and undulating transparent plastic sheets.
- Structural guess
- Traditional timber post-and-beam frame combined with non-loadbearing masonry infill walls.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled courtyard space, intimate single-story volumes with low eaves.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast blue-hour illumination with warm interior lights and ground uplighting casting soft glows across the surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and futuristic yet respectful of traditional spatial scales under blue twilight.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban historic courtyard setting with neighboring brick structures and mature trees visible in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The view moves from an enclosed courtyard ground across a paved gathering zone toward transparent and semi-enclosed timber-framed interiors.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal roof lines and vertical brick piers framing repeated glazed and transparent openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary intervention in historic vernacular
- Program
- Cultural or commercial exhibition space within a historic courtyard
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- gray-brick, timber, glass, transparent-plastic, stone-pavers, clay-tile
- Visual identifiers
- gray-brick, transparent-plastic-facade, courtyard-paving, timber-structure
- Style tags
- contemporary-vernacular, adaptive-reuse, experimental-materiality
- Visual tags
- historic-renovation, courtyard, adaptive-reuse, hybrid-materials, twilight-lighting
- Geometry
- An internal courtyard arrangement flanked by traditional-style single-story structures with gray brick walls and tiled pitched roofs, connected by a continuous paved ground plane.
- Facade system
- Combination of traditional brick masonry walls, clear glass storefronts, and undulating transparent plastic sheets.
- Structural guess
- Traditional timber post-and-beam frame combined with non-loadbearing masonry infill walls.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scaled courtyard space, intimate single-story volumes with low eaves.
- Lighting
- Twilight or overcast blue-hour illumination with warm interior lights and ground uplighting casting soft glows across the surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and futuristic yet respectful of traditional spatial scales under blue twilight.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban historic courtyard setting with neighboring brick structures and mature trees visible in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The view moves from an enclosed courtyard ground across a paved gathering zone toward transparent and semi-enclosed timber-framed interiors.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal roof lines and vertical brick piers framing repeated glazed and transparent openings.
- Style reading
- Contemporary intervention in historic vernacular
- Program
- Cultural or commercial exhibition space within a historic courtyard
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture