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Should vacation products be essentially different from the first residence in the city? Is it possible to produce a settlement community with a free interface and neighborhood interaction scenes?
-Meng Fanhao
Background
In recent years, given people’s behavior of escaping from urban and the reflection on the urban artificial environment, resort town projects under the paradigm of real estate development have set off an upsurge in various places. Relying on superior natural environment and focusing on life needs, they usually serve as vocation products or second residences. In theory, different types of residential products should have different design strategies, but it is clear that in the design of small town communities in China, a large number of urban planning and design strategies are still copied, and the parallel texture and standardized style continue to spread from the city to the suburbs and even the countryside. The so-called empiricism produces the tac
Reconstruction
The renovation is based on the in-depth study of the traditional stilted buildings at a cost similar to that of the villagers’ spontaneous renovation, and meets the villagers’ lifestyle and personal demands. We hope the design strategy which not only solves the problem but also maintains the cost unchanged can become a model for villagers to rebuild their own houses and protect the local context.
Balancing the conflict between traditional buildings and new needs, and weakening the heterogeneity brought by modern materials are the first considerations for the design team. The demonstration reconstruction design maximizes the retention and utilization of the original building structure and facade materials, and integrates the modern toilets, kitchens, farm tool storage and other living functions needed in the contemporary life of the villagers into the original building’s stilt floor and on one side of the building. At the same time, part of the overhe