The project is a three-story townhouse designed by Archstudio and Magic Penny. It is located in a residential area in the eastern suburbs of Beijing. The first floor and the basement are a connected space which is used to receive visitors. The second floor is for daily living, it has separate entrances and exits.
The design of the first floor is developed around the living room and the study room, oak grille and shelves are used to meet the requirements of book collecting, exhibition and display, and to create a sense of layer of semitransparent from outside to inside. The tea room uses gray cement paint combined with a custom-made concrete counter top and table top, in this way the contrast of the grey box and the background will result in a spatial experience of different scales. The same technique is used in the design of the living room and the bedroom. For the basement floor the designer reintegrates the relationship between the sunken garden and the interior space. The bamboo forest in the courtyard creates landscape interactions between interior views and outdoor views. The underground garage has been turned into a bright guest room. A “dome” is used in the living area of the second floor to soften the relationship between the roof and the wall, which makes the interior space soft and full of change.
