Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects 劉宇揚建築事務所

Wuyuan Rd. Studio

WUYUAN RD. STUDIO

Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects

Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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ARCHITECTS
Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects

AREA
355 m²

YEAR
2016

PHOTOGRAPHS
Eiichi Kano, Herman Mao, Che Jin

STRUCTURE CONSULTANT
Liu Tao

CLIENT
Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects

COST
800,000RMB

BUILDING AREA
400m2

CONTRACTOR
Shanghai Zhuohao Construction Co.

LOCATION
Shanghai, China

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 The renovation is based on the original structure, but emphasises on the continuation of space and visual connection between indoor and outdoor. Gray-colored river pebble terrazzo floor goes well with brass divider and margin.

A glimpse through glass doors and windows or bevel skylights captured the cool shades of tree and changes of sunlight, as one senses the natural surrounding and time passing by.

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Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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Original garage facing the entrance was renovated into a big meeting room with double-door. 

When these doors and the front gate are open, the outside neighborhood, front courtyard and the meeting room became a continuous space, providing possibilities of serving as a community design workshop in the future.

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Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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The first floor works as a main working area where all the programmed spaces centred around a five-meter long document shelf, including a small exhibition area, coffee bar, solarium, model room, restrooms and a storage room.

Besides a basic administrative management space, there are two groups of open working area, three individual offices and a private architecture library.

Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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We offer a fixed budget for colleagues to regularly pick and collect worth-reading high-quality publications.

The purpose is not to imitate any architecture design trends, but to establish a clear and diverse cultural coordinates for all of our projects.

In the aspect of materials and details, our design particularly respond to their different spaces and programs with our own attitude.

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Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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Many of the metal works are designed and made on-site. Recycled Chinese Ash wood and copper hand pull-rod were used to construct our own door and window system.

Black steel plates are bent into different kinds of components, such as vestibule at the entrance, staircase handrail, window sill, book shelves, toilet paper holder and so on.

All internal walls are finished with round corner at the opening of both door and window.The studio of Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects is housed in a normal two-story building sited in a typical Shanghai alley.

Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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Wuyuan Rd. Studio
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Some design effects are hard to be presented by drawings, like the lustre and texture of the material itself, spaces and shadows created and cast by interactions among the materials, as well as the relation between use and site.

These are indeed our own experiment in building and our practice with real space. The tall space on the second floor is designed to be a collaborative working area.

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Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects 劉宇揚建築事務所
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Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects 劉宇揚建築事務所
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