西北院子

The project is an old house reconstruction in a small village at the foot of Mount Wutai in Shanxi Province. The local environment is full of northwest style. The owner of the house grew up here when he was a child, so he has deep feelings for his hometown. Now that his parents are old, he bought back his neighbor's abandoned courtyard and want to expand and rebuild his ancestral home. Through the reconstruction, he hope that it can not only expand the area and add the convenience of modern living, but also preserve part of the original appearance and retain the memory and stories of the family.“特征性”能否和“设计感”碰撞出一些有意思的东西。The original yard is not big in size, but it is a relatively standard courtyard house with some old but distinctive features. We must first preserve these traditional folk architectural languages and then to see whether these "characteristics" can collide with the "design sense" to produce something interesting.“天”是环境“地”是建筑，主宅要方正，后（南）院要自然，并且我们希望它们之间既分明也要有某种形式的联系，不光联系了宅与园，也联系了过去与现在。Chinese tradition emphasizes heaven and earth that “Heaven” means the environment and “Land” means architecture. The main house should be built in square shape and the back (South) yard should be natural. We hope that they are both distinct and also with some form of connection----not only the connection of home and garden, but also the past and the present.“西北禅意”形成对比，也是一个“打破”方正的透明模块，将传统与现代、封闭与开放、建筑与庭院之间加入一个过渡空间▼We connect the backyard with the main house through a modern bar kitchen, which is in contrast to the “Northwest Zen” of the main house and also a transparent module that breaks the Square, adding a transition space between traditional and modern, closed and open, house and courtyards. ▼If we want to retain memories, we must try to maintain the consistency of the existing four buildings, the main yard and four corner yards before and after the transformation: the experience that the original way of life retained, the characteristics that the original space taste reserved.