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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Office of LYCS Architecture in Hangzhou, China (designed using Rhino and AutoCAD)April 18th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: LYCS Architecture The new office of LYCS Architecture is a renovation design of a tower penthouse in downtown Hangzhou, with a panorama view of the West Lake World Heritage. The original space with is a non-professional add-on storage room to the tower roof composed of elevator mechanical room, fire escape doors and slanted drainage surfaces. The idea of this design is to create the juxtaposition of this abandoned storage space and the new office, through the material homogeneity to heterogeneity and temporal attenuation of space.  Image Courtesy LYCS Architecture
 Image Courtesy LYCS Architecture In celebrating the collectiveness and parallelism of the authentic architecture language and the self-built “dialects”, the design remains the imprint of several original elements in revealing its original non-professional property. The eroded columns were kept in contrast to the white steel frame of the roof. The elevated floor from the original slanted drainage roof is perforated and covered with removable glasses, in making the original roof surface explicit yet in depth. The fire escape door canopies and the rough ceramic wall are kept to imply the mutation from the abandoned storage space into an introverted architecture office, further to amplify the existing transformation from an exterior roof into an interior space.  Image Courtesy LYCS Architecture The steel frame and walls are painted in creating a museum-like white space, as an exhibitive gesture to the remainders. Unlike a pure delicate white room, the painted walls with the original layer of mosaic and cracked texture give a level of ambiguity upon the completely new walls. The juxtaposition of fading ceramic wall segments with blocking and opening doors and the new white walls creates another level of heterogeneity. The overlaying program of the heavy-industrial elevator mechanical room and the architecture office space attenuates time in creating its narratives. The broken orange roof door retired from its previous function as a guardian. It is moved thus respected as the interior door of the meeting room, in prolonging the lasting period of architectural elements and its space.  Image Courtesy LYCS Architecture The design attempts to create the dialectical effect of architecture professionalism as the program is, and the non-professionalism in architecture. It celebrates multi-signatures over single signature, which also reveals one of the design philosophies of LYCS Architecture. This new office design is a renovation design for the penthouse floor of a tower in downtown Hangzhou, with a panorama view of the West Lake UNESCO World Heritage site. The original space was an add-on storage room to the tower roof composed of an elevator mechanical room, fire escape and drainage pipes.  Image Courtesy LYCS Architecture The design juxtaposes the abandoned storage space and the new office, using a composition of material homogeneity and heterogeneity, and a temporal attenuation of the space. In celebrating the differentiation between an authentic architectural language and wasted space, the design retains the imprint of several original elements as a reminder of the leftover space. This project is not a normal vision of minimalism, as it reinvents the notion of historical space via wasted space; taking a critical position on the contemporary tenets of the fast-paced real estate market in China.  Image Courtesy LYCS Architecture  Image Courtesy LYCS Architecture
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