The design highlights of this Xinhua Bookstore in the ancient city of Yangzhou are all in these four treasure boxes!

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Yangzhou Slow: Treasure Box in the Ancient City

Chinese box

Wutopia Lab was invited by the owner

to change a Xinhua Bookstore and its auxiliary rooms

into a bookstore and a bookstore with hidden

in the ancient city of Yangzhou. Exhibitions, conferences, The treasure box in the teahouse

shows the people of Yangzhou the possibility of inheriting the history and showing the future

Yangzhou, which has a history of more than 2,5 years, was once the most prosperous city in China

The Xinhua Bookstore on Guoqing Road, which was established on January 28th, 1949

It was the first Xinhua Bookstore in Yangzhou

Its predecessor was the "Jianguo Bookstore" in the former Republic of China

after liberation, Xinhua Bookstore on Guoqing Road, which has been taken over

after 7 years of development

bearing the memories of several generations, has gradually fallen into disrepair with the development of the times

The business area is getting smaller and smaller

Some facades are leased to clothing stores

The bookstore that used to be the spiritual home of Yangzhou people has begun to be forgotten

The Yangzhou municipal government and owners hope to jointly revive Xinhua Bookstore and drive the ancient city

. Urban renewal in the district

Yangzhou Slow is a

nested surprise box

The Xinhua Bookstore obtained by Wutopia Lab is a small community consisting of a street building

and six buildings embedded in the texture of the old city

There is a yard full of sundries between the houses

Wutopia Lab regards the ancient city of Yangzhou as the above sentence.

Yangzhou Slow is the next sentence

Wutopia Lab integrates them into a related group

It is named "Yangzhou Slow"

This Yangzhou Slow is composed of four treasure boxes

The first box is Xinhua Bookstore

1.1 Miyako Bookstore is the lightest white box

The main tone of National Day Road is gray. Heavy

I think since I can't change the facade

, let's create a white and light bookstore.

I am inspired by the design of "Yi Gong".

I use a white acrylic bookshelf as a screen.

I enclose the bookstore and divide it into a maze of bookstores.

Translucent acrylic creates a foggy experience.

All the books seem to be suspended in the air

on a white floor. It's a light bookstore

Although the bookstore is small

, it seems endless under the mirror mapping

People can't stop

They can't linger

Time is not important

Qing Yi Lu Gong Shi, "Gong Gong, written by Meng Shu's great-grandfather in his later years, draws 7 screens and closes a hundred buttons.

1.2 The children's library is a jewelry box in a white box

The children's library on the second floor is an upgraded version of the Yi Palace Bookstore

The layout continues the Yi Palace Bookstore

But the bookshelf is changed into wood

The bookshelf is also the outline of the wooden house

The floor is bright yellow

There are animals (bookshelves) swimming on it

Layers of wooden houses have created a warm Narnia-like world for children under the reflection of mirror walls. Children are adults' treasures. 1.3 The mobile study is a mechanism in a white box. I insist on designing the lifting platform for transporting books into a mobile living room. The car wall can be used as an exhibition. Only those who are familiar with it know that

it is hidden behind the mirror wall

when it is opened occasionally

, readers can get a glimpse of

The Historical Changes of Xinhua Bookstore

Miscellaneous Notes of Daye, which is on display. "The mountains in the garden are the sea ... The wind pavilion and the moon view are all made by machine, or they rise or die, and if there is a change."

1.4 Guanwen Bookstore is a black box on a white box.

The third floor of the bookstore is a small collection area.

I was inspired by the "Guanwen Temple".

The movable stainless steel bookcase combined with the fixed bookshelf

The mirror ceiling and the black floor form a "secret room" that makes people feel lost.

It is the Guanwen Bookstore in Yangzhou. The first two compartments are bookshops, each with twelve rooms. In front of the hall, it is a road. "

1.5 Yunshang Garden is a box hiding nature.

The reading room comes out as a roof garden.

I am inspired by the bamboo in Geyuan and the Qingyi Pavilion in Geyuan.

The pattern of ripples formed by weather-resistant steel plates is used as the shape of the flower pond.

Bamboo is planted in it.

The graceful projection of green bamboo on the white sandstone is the echo of Geyuan on the roof of the old city.

This is a rewritten miniature nature

The Story of Geyuan. "The pool hall in the park is quiet, Shui Mu is graceful, and bamboo is planted with thousands of poles, so it is called a garden."

My smaller idea

is to embed a triangular blue acrylic on the outer wall between the stairs

It is engraved with the portrait of Wenqu Xingjun

Knowledge ultimately helps readers become literary talents and wisdom

"The treasure of bookstore box is knowledge and history"

The second box is a 24-hour "study" box.

2.1 Living in Poetry

Two small buildings in the backyard of Xinhua Bookstore were converted into homestays and * * * Enjoy the lobby

There are 12 rooms in the small building on two floors

This is the B&B box

I sacrificed part of the room area

I separated the rooms into small boxes attached to a big box

I regarded them as chocolates

You may get Li Bai

or Ouyang Xiu

At first, you can't be sure. Who

After all, there are 12 poets waiting for you to choose

You have a second way to choose

Drifting aimlessly along the corridor flowing like a river

You will pass by Zhang Ruoxu

and see all the Yangzhou poems you have read

Maybe you can't remember them clearly

but they will all shine in your mind again. Yangzhou in that text comes alive

2.2 bathed in the rainbow of inspiration

The small building adjacent to the B&B

is used for conference training activities. Enjoy the hall

its fa? ade is asked not to be treated on the fa? ade because it is very close to the residential buildings

I turned my eyes to the roof

There should be light

Colored skylights filter the sky into colorful

and make the room lively

Even in the fetters

Imagination can still gallop

This colored light is ordinary life.

"The treasure of the B&B box is a poetic life"

The third box is the central courtyard

The miscellaneous courtyard between the bookstore box and the B&B box has been cleaned up

This is the center of the whole Yangzhou Slow Project

The central courtyard is an empty box

I

planted a shiny "empty box" in the original dilapidated courtyard

It.

you stand in this empty, clean, In the gray box,

it is the next sentence of the chaotic and crowded ancient city.

It responds to the flaky mountain house.

The whole wall and ground are paved with gray stone.

This is an independent courtyard.

Its walls are separated from the surrounding buildings.

This is a gesture of determination to start over.

Through the landscape windows, flower brick walls, Yuedongmen

You can get a glimpse of the old city with different colors and textures

They try to squeeze in

but they are blocked out

In this quiet courtyard

You will slow down

Many thoughts and memories will come to mind

You can adjust

Think about something

This empty box is the center of the whole project

. It's the sky

The red maple in the center echoes the sky

It's a pity that I can't wait for it to turn red to publish my work

It's sometimes extravagant to be slow

"The treasure of the courtyard box is thinking"

The fourth box is a secret treasure

4.1 The winding water is the line to find the secret treasure. Suo

At the entrance of the backyard, you will find

curved copper bars embedded in the ground

"meandering water flowing"

. This is a clue to help us discover fine things

4.2 We have hidden three secret treasures

Along the meandering water

We found three secret places in this treasure box in the backyard

.

It has become two exquisite tea rooms

Qionghua Peony and Green Yang Chun

and the last independent homestay

Fireworks in March

This long and narrow winding yard

has achieved a calm independent of the noise

It belongs to the delicacy and complacency of the friends who found the treasure

"The treasure in the secret treasure box is memory.

Yangzhou Slow is the treasure of Yangzhou

Yangzhou slowly opens the box to Yangzhou people layer by layer

You stand in Yangzhou Slow Xinhua Bookstore

Have a rest

You will find that the alley on the west side of Daqinlin Pavilion

Xinsheng Street is the favorite green poplar hotel of celebrities in the Republic of China

And the alley not far away is Fuchun Tea House

Heyuan and. Dongguan Street is not far from the bookstore.

This treasure box of Yangzhou Slow will tell you that the ancient city of Yangzhou is the biggest treasure box.

It is waiting for us to explore

technical drawings

-project information-

Project name: Youlang | Yangzhou Slow × Xinhua Bookstore

Scheme design (architecture, Indoor, Landscape): Wutopia Lab

Lead architect: Yu Ting

Project architect: Yellow River

Photography: CreatAR Images

Lighting consultant: Zhang Chenlu

Project address: Yangzhou

Building area: 18㎡

Completion time: January 219

Construction drawing design:

Building: Yangzhou Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd.

Interior: Shanghai Aoshi Design Consulting Co., Ltd.

Landscape: Shanghai Tonggou Architectural Engineering Design Co., Ltd.

Curtain wall: Jiangsu Construction Holding Group Co., Ltd.

Article reprinted from: Architect's Madhouse

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