Lead Architect: Ning Wang

SENIOR DESIGNER: WEIPENG HUANG, ZHUANG LIN

DESIGN TEAM: YANYU FAN, ZHI LUO, JINMING LIANG,YURI, MOSES

Role - Drafting construction drawings and Designing the reception and storefront.

Toolkits - Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and AutoCAD

Year 2020

Location - Guangzhou, China

Built at the end of the 19th century in an eclectic style, No. 41 Sha Mian Street has a floor area of 1,030 square meters, an eaves height of 15 meters and a total height of 19.2 meters, with the main entrance facing northwest. It was once the Sassoon Foreign House. After the liberation, the activities of the foreign firms gradually ceased, and these buildings, full of history, were given new life and vitality. From the post-liberation period to the present, 41 Sha Mian Street has been used as a small factory run by Sha Mian Fuxing Road Primary School and a dormitory for Nanfang Daily.

We integrate the garden-like oriental space into the western-style architectural form, walk through the hall on the first floor, you can overlooking the entire hall, but also a close view of the cultural relics of the columns and flower decorative lines, in the western-style logic of the architectural space to taste the Chinese beauty of moving step by step, people are in the middle of it, not only sparse and dense, but also close and interconnected. The first floor of the cultural relics belonging to the "vault" exhibition hall and the upper floor of the air cultural corridor is connected to the staggered, recorded the flow of traces of the times. Walking through them, one can feel the light and shadow cast by the branches of the trees through the classical windows, and also view the vault and its remaining facilities, which are important clues of the cultural relics, as if it were a time traveling corridor, bringing visitors back to the time of 150 years ago in a short time.