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Creating a naked space in the countryside around Beijing, China
In recent years, the homestay market is oversaturated in the Beijing area with intense competition which causes the flooding emergence of a lot of “Mount Mogan-like” homestays that are copying and intimating each other, as if looking at mirrors. However, Beijing, where is a cultural art center, should keep its diversity.
This project locates in Sihai town, Yanqing District, Beijing. It is called “Four Season Flower Sea” because the site is surrounded by flowers which filled the whole mountain areas. The building is in a very regular form: it has a four-sided room, a corridor-surrounding courtyard, and the column frame which create an atmosphere of stability. It is surrounded by traditional local housing on four sides with the only entry perpendicular to the main road. Neighboring housings distribute relatively loosely. And the small courtyard belonged to the owner behind the project was transformed in