Article source: officePROJECT

From “Renovate the old as new”to”make the new as old”

In today’s urban renewal, we are confronted with more and more non-new projects. We found that a lot of renovation projects in the city are not buildings of historical value being shown in the media, but more often are abandoned buildings being built during new China decades mass city urban construction. The buildings are abandoned not because they are old, but  they are too new. That is to say, they are in lack of consideration about the history of the site in design, but completely went to the imaginary novel.

Image Courtesy © Sun Haiting, Chang Ke

• Architects: officePROJECT
• Project: Wu Yueshi Art Museum
• Location: Huairou, Beijing
• Photography: Sun Haiting, Chang Ke
• Building Area: 967sqm
• Principal Architect: Chang Ke, Li Wenhan, Liu Minjie,
• Design Team: Zhao Jianwei, Jiang Honghui, Zhang Hao, Feng Panao, Yuan Bo，Qiao Yu, Wang Jiatong, Wu Xiangdan
• Design Period: 2019.3-2019.5
• Construction period: 2019.5-2019.11

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