Nanjing Wood Ink Exhibition Hall
Use wood as ink to depict life. Use wooden furniture as a medium to express your understanding of life, design in a free way, and build an environment-friendly, natural and healthy space. Only wood works are used to create space, and paint and color are not used.
The location of the project is the street space on one side of the first floor of the old building. Strictly speaking, this is not a complete old building. In the early period, it was the workshop of Jiangnan Mintage in the Republic of China. During the transformation, a new office building was built inside, leaving only a few towering red brick walls. The windows on the red brick wall connect the scenery on both sides of the wall. The outside is the city. The contemporary buildings on the inside are separated from the brick wall. The gap between them forms a transitional space.
This is FANAF's fifth project in L.Park. The first four projects are the reconstruction of MOTIVA Gymnasium, Jiangnan Mintage Museum, Aritco Elevator Exhibition Hall, and the lobby of Building 20, which are mainly internal reconstruction, with less facade reconstruction responding to the city.
Different from the previous projects, the new project faces the city with red brick walls. The building facade that really provides functionality is on the inside of the new project. The gap and the red brick wall together form the building boundary. This provides a suitable opportunity for us to explore the new interface relationship between city and architecture.
As a historical relic, the red brick wall has been preserved, repaired and maintained, becoming a necessary cultural feature of the contemporary city. It tells a story of the past and is also the background of the transformation design. Therefore, we mainly focus on the first floor elevation and the gap between the first floor elevation and the red brick wall. We separate the gap into the entrance courtyard and the internal courtyard. At the same time, different residential functions are placed in the two courtyards to break the facade boundary, so as to reconstruct and blur the architectural boundary.
The design independently extracts the functions of "study, kitchen, bedroom, living room, tea room" and other functions covered in the residential space to show different open surfaces.
The two courtyards have slightly different ways of blurring architectural boundaries. In the entrance courtyard, the black box is embedded in the building, half of which is indoor, and the other half extends to the courtyard with a whole side of frameless glass. The world inside the building is laid out and infiltrates the city through the windows on the red brick wall. The scenery of the city also reflects romance and vitality on the glass facade of the black box through the window.
In the internal courtyard, the indoor log ceiling extends to the courtyard, and the new facade is hidden to integrate the indoor and outdoor spaces. The C-shaped teahouse is located in the courtyard, dividing the external urban environment and making the transparent space introverted.
Two courtyards, two boxes and two blurs, together with the red brick walls, form a new interface between city and architecture. It deconstructs the original architectural boundary and makes it three-dimensional, relative and fuzzy.
The confrontation between history and the contemporary has resulted in the change and blending of time and space, and the multiple meanings of the boundary are no longer clear and definite. Therefore, people who are in it are not bound by the conventional concepts, and obtain the dual freedom of body and spirit.
When the interface relationship is no longer clear, the interior and exterior of the building become blurred, and the space begins to penetrate, the sense of the garden appears.
Cherry logs are used to separate the newly added shape from the original structure, making clear the relationship between the new and old structures and creating a new climate boundary.
Project title: Nanjing Wood Ink Exhibition Hall
Project site: Building 11, L.Park, Nanjing, Jiangsu
Design area: 280㎡
Renovation: Fan Architectural Firm (FANAF)
Project leader: Jin Xin
Design team: Zou Mingshuai, Wu Jiayu, Zhang Zhendong
Design scope: facade reconstruction, structural design, interior hard decoration design, soft decoration design, lighting design
Structure design: Li Liang
Civil construction: Chen Lianming
Ground system: Nanjing Huizhishu Decoration Engineering Co., Ltd
Author: Liu wei, Jin Xin
Photography: ingallery Jin Xiaowen, LOG PHOTO
