![]() ![]() Parallel with the practical works, the office has involved with research and teaching, focus on subjects such as revival of old buildings and objects in domestic landscape. Work contents: Architectural design / Interior design / Furniture designĪddress: 2f, No.97 Moganshan Road, Shanghai, 200060 Chinaįounded in 2016, the design works of Atelier tao+c ranging from a piece of pendant lamp to a compound development, from the interior of small urban apartments to the renovation of old rural houses, from shops on the street to a youth community. The dark-tone woods lined with bright green were introduced to evoke people’s memories of the old-time libraries, strengthen the clam ambiance that encourages readers to stay in, to sit down, read, and write. The strategy is to reduce unnecessary objects, except for bookshelves, display tables, seats, reading lights, and curtains, there are no other elements standing in the room. Atelier tao+c seized the opportunity to probe into human’s reading behaviors, as that the designer planned to curate an immersed experience for readers to re-concentrate on reading. The unconventional oblique angles on the bookshelves cater to the reader‘s gesture of grasping and putting down books The different seats pander to provide diverse ways for readers to sit down and stay. The owner of the bookstore and the designer reached a common understanding that the bookstore should not only be a storage room for books, but also should be a place for people to involving in, collecting social memories, and absorbing knowledge.Įvery bookshelf, seat, and lamp in the Common Reader Bookstore are specifically designed for each book and conform to human’s reading behaviors. In this project, the function of walls and floors was replaced by furniture, which became a reduced kind architectural miniature. A 42 sqm room results with a living room in 11 sqm, kitchen and dining room in 20 sqm, a bathroom in 4 sqm, a foyer with wardrobe in 5 qm, a bedroom in 15 sqm and a study in 4 sqm. The architect inserted a huge composite piece of furniture or a micro “furniturisation” architecture into the room. The rich interface formed by the interweaving of concrete blocks absorbs the surface and plane of daily life into complex structures, thereby obtaining a looser space for activities. How to revive an original single function room to meet new need of living is a problem faced by many vacant rooms as such. The 42sqm room was once the ballroom of the house and then a couple lived in it for decades, eventually moved out. ![]() ![]() Located on the ground floor of an old garden house, it’s a U-shape room with a full-faceted semi-circular window facing the back garden. At twilight, the whole building is illuminated by the light from the indoor, and the building itself becomes a light house, offering a slice of warmth to the calmness of the night. Given the amazing natural landscape at the east end of the building, the architect cut the whole gable wall on this side and embedded a transparent structure of wooden frames and corrugated polycarbonate panels, introducing the green of the mountains and forests into the interior. At the same time, the staggering floor slabs formed a few “double-height” spaces in the accommodation areas,it is also where people’s point of sight is above the floor height. The modular capsule rooms are hidden and enclosed by bookshelves, giving more privacy to the accommodation area. Each of the male and female “buildings” is equipped with ten capsule rooms and one bathroom. The original floors and partition walls were removed, opened the ground floor for library, placed two independent “floating” structure above the open spaces, which will be used separately for male and female guests. The architects made restrained openings on the exterior wall to maintain the original simplicity of the building. Atelier tao+c redesigned and regenerated this old building by inserting a capsule hotel that can accommodate 20 people, a community bookstore and library. It was an old house of wood structure and mud walls, covering an area of 232 sqm and a height of 7.2 meters. Capsule Hotel and Bookstore in Village Qinglongwu is located in the deep forests of Tonglu in Zhejiang province.
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