Façade Renovation for No. 8 Building
Façade Renovation for No. 8 Building
Atelier Archmixing
ARCHITECTS
Atelier Archmixing
ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Zhuang Shen, Ren Hao, Tang Yu, Zhu Jie
DESIGN TEAM
Zhuang Shen, Wang Kan, Yang Yunqiao, Xie Wenjing
PHOTOGRAPHS
Tang Yu
AREA
274 M²
YEAR
2014
LOCATION
Xuhui, China
CATEGORY
Renovation, Commercial Architecture
Text description provided by architect.
This façade renovation project is a small part for Hengshanfang Historical Area Regeneration Program, Shanghai.
The building locates in a downtown commercial center, at the corner of two leafy historical streets.
This old villa, future boutique shop or office, is now covered with a skin of two different textures, traditional gray bricks mixing with unique luminous bricks.
With the same scale and similar color, both materials share the same quiet appearance during the day, but when night falls, the new bricks suddenly become shinning. What a dramatic experience! Pedestrians nearby are always deeply attracted.
The tectonic details are carefully designed to create a coherent face for this historical building but completely different expression during different time.
For Atelier Archmixing, to change materials and tectonics is simply to achieve difference for these everyday commercial buildings.
