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Beijing House II/ Yaohua Wang Architecture
USINFO | 2013-12-05 16:48
Sleek and futuristic parasitic house design by SCI-Arc alumnus Yaohua Wang. Beautiful and sexy stuff. This kid is great; he’s managed to perfectly execute this mecha-fluid aesthetic that’s been bouncing around in my head for more than a decade now. It’s Wes Jones meets Hernan Diaz Alonso.
Yaohua’s work is exciting and fresh; a new favorite young designer to look out for.
Yaohua Wang Architecture:
During the modernization of Beijing, except for some historical houses, independent housing typology was almost eliminated.
Afterwards, the new model became huge, stacking commercial residential buildings. Thus, with the support of the client, project Beijing House II is trying to seek new methods of bringing the independent housing typology back to Beijing’s contemporary city life. This design scheme adds a new house onto the exterior of an obsolete factory building. Inside the house there are bedrooms, a studio and a green room. By doing this, the design uses the empty city space in the air and rediscovers the typology of independent housing in Beijing city.
Meanwhile, this scheme also brings about new challenges because Beijing has frequent earthquakes and this design scheme suggests a big cantilever house, which is attached onto the exiting building. Therefore, to keep this in mind, a mechanical system is introduced to counteract a potential earthquake.
The design attitude of this scheme is very honest when dealing with the fluid geometry and the mechanical system. This scheme tries to mix and merge these two different styles together instead of hiding any one of the two different systems. This becomes one of the main features of the design.
Yaohua’s work is exciting and fresh; a new favorite young designer to look out for.
Yaohua Wang Architecture:
During the modernization of Beijing, except for some historical houses, independent housing typology was almost eliminated.
Afterwards, the new model became huge, stacking commercial residential buildings. Thus, with the support of the client, project Beijing House II is trying to seek new methods of bringing the independent housing typology back to Beijing’s contemporary city life. This design scheme adds a new house onto the exterior of an obsolete factory building. Inside the house there are bedrooms, a studio and a green room. By doing this, the design uses the empty city space in the air and rediscovers the typology of independent housing in Beijing city.
Meanwhile, this scheme also brings about new challenges because Beijing has frequent earthquakes and this design scheme suggests a big cantilever house, which is attached onto the exiting building. Therefore, to keep this in mind, a mechanical system is introduced to counteract a potential earthquake.
The design attitude of this scheme is very honest when dealing with the fluid geometry and the mechanical system. This scheme tries to mix and merge these two different styles together instead of hiding any one of the two different systems. This becomes one of the main features of the design.
