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Cai Guo-Giang Courtyard House by Studio Pei Zhu





This Residence for an artist calls for the restoration of a historically significant classical Chinese Siheyuan Courtyard House in Beijing, with a new building addition within its compound.
“The house is about 200 years old. Here, we have had the budget to create a house that belongs to old beijing and to the modern city. It is simple, free of ornament. The houses, although narrow, are deep, you enter into high-walled entrance courtyards and then into inner courtyards that are double-height living rooms. Behind the kitchens are gardens to coutyards. And on top of the bedrooms, we have roof terraces courtyards within courtyards, offering privacy, daylight and space”.
- Pei Zhu
Cai Guo-Giang Courtyard House, by Pei Zhu and Tong Wu, Studio Pei Zhu
via: designboom
Friday, January 16th, 2009
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