Courtyard House
Courtyard House
Dotze Innovations Studio
ARCHITECTS
Dotze Innovations Studio
MANUFACTURERS
Panasonic, Alcopla, Nozawa
CONTRACTOR
Arjr Architects, Tze-chun Wei
CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS
Zhi-rui Haung, Yu-cheng Tang
COLLABORATORS
Itemdesign, Ospace Architects, Arjr Architects
DESIGN TEAM
Zhi-rui Haung, Chi-fung Yeh, Zhe-xun Yang, Chun-li Wang
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Wu-long Huang
INTERIOR DESIGN
Tze-chun Wei
LIGHTING DESIGN
Vivie Lin
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Tze-chun Wei
PHOTOGRAPHS
Tze-chun Wei
AREA
1132 M²
YEAR
2014
LOCATION
Taiwan (Roc)
CATEGORY
Houses, Adaptive Reuse
Text description provided by architect.
This is an ambitious project for a 3-generation family in Changhua, Taiwan.
The site is located on the roof of an existing one-story factory building.
The initial idea was to create a contemporary Chinese courtyard house with a "回" shaped volume, a layout with individual living units and shared family spaces.
They are connected by a looped corridor and separated by small light wells.
"Sky-Voids" are distributed in the corners of the building to provide natural lighting and ventilation and are designed as individual small courtyards.
"Inner-View" is the idea of creating private garden views for the occupants' pleasure and blurs the visual boundary between inside and outside.
Big glazing facing the central courtyard is designed and "Sky Voids" provide inner-views of the garden.
This is a project trying to re-define a modern Chinese courtyard house and explore how space can be divided individually but stay closely connected
