Embracing Ruins - RenranTáng
Architect Wonder Architects
Design team Zhu Qipeng, Jin Tailin, Yuan Yingzi
Location Yanqing, Beijing, China
Programme homestay
Planning area 350m2
Building area 200m2
Gross floor area 200m2
Building scope 1F
Height 4.4m
Building to land ratio 57%
Floor area ratio 57%
Structure masonry
Exterior finishing brick
Interior finishing brick, coating
Structural engineer Gao Xuemei
Construction Wang Gensheng’s team, etc.
Mechanical engineer Wang Weiwei, Zhen Qin
Electrical engineer Guo Chen
Design period Mar. – Apr. 2018
Construction period Mar. – May 2019
Client Da Yin Yu Shi B&B
A Way to Contemplating Ruins
Zhu Qipeng co-principal, Wonder Architects × Lee Sungje
Lee Sungje (Lee): In your project statement you note that ‘Beginning in the winter of 2018, several architects successively built houses in a village on the outskirts of Beijing. This is one of them’. We want to learn more about the background to this project.
Zhu Qipeng (Zhu): Our client was a couple that run a B&B in the village. As far as
I know, they have dozens of courtyard houses ( 院落 ) in this village and in the surrounding villages, all of which operate as B&Bs. They negotiated with the villagers and rented their yards. The local government obviously supported this new business venture, which brought many opportunities to
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