Courtyard House

Courtyard House
© Tze-Chun Wei

Courtyard House

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.

Courtyard House
© Tze-Chun Wei
Courtyard House
© Tze-Chun Wei

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.

Courtyard House
© Tze-Chun Wei
Courtyard House
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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.

Courtyard House
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Courtyard House
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"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.

Courtyard House
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Courtyard House
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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

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