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Sumit Singhal
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.

Concrete Slit House in Nanjing, China by AZL architects

 
March 16th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: AZL architects

Slit House is a contemporary concrete residence enmeshed within a quiet Kuomingtang-era neighborhood in central Nanjing. The entire structure and roof are made from concrete pressed into a custom mould, handmade from five-centimetre horizontal wood strips to remain in scale with the adjacent century-old brick buildings. The slit in the concrete creates transparency as it responds to interior circulation, and provides different programmes with differing interior heights & elevations, thus crates in upper bedrooms half floor volume shifting for its privacy. The living room spans over two stories, the dining area extends over one and half levels, and remaining bedrooms and studies occupy single storey spaces.

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  • Architects: AZL architects
  • Project: Concrete Slit House
  • Location: Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China
  • Photography: Iwan Baan
  • Design Team: Zhang Lei, Meng Fanhao, Cai Menglei, Lu Yuan, Tang Xiaoxin
  • Collaborator: Architectural Design & Planning Institute, Nanjing University
  • Floor Areas: 270 m2
  • Design: 2005.07
  • Completion: 2007.10

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Even though China consumes almost half of the world’s supply of concrete, and Nanjing has seen thirteen-hundred new concrete highrises in the past twenty-five years, Slit House is the first honest concrete building in Nanjing.

Image Courtesy © Iwan Baan

Image Courtesy © Iwan Baan

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Image Courtesy © AZL architects

Image Courtesy © AZL architects

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