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PROJECT, ARCHITECTURE 24.05.2018

Hidden Corner

#china #cafe #book store #scenic architecture office

Located in a riverside park within the chaos of the city, the Lattice Book House becomes a physical connection between perception and scale, defining the space by merging the structure, furniture and nature

The Lattice House is a book cafe. Sitting at any corner of the house, the books on the lattice structure and surrounding branches and leaves become all touchable sceneries. This building reproduces the spatial experience of forest in an artificial way, and makes a symbiotic relationship between abstract and representational in a continuous scale.

Supported by freestanding steel lattice structure walls, a group of platforms float in the trees with various heights. A bending stair links all the platforms and brings people to every space in diversified locations and sizes. Relying on the platforms, these spaces are interrelated and open to each other. The steel lattice wall and glass curtain, which are both transparent, blur the layer boundaries between platforms and interior/exierior.

Ground floor plan
1st floor plan
Site plan

We expect to merge structure, furniture and space into one, to make this building a physical media that can establish relevance among scale, space and perception. We believe that this relevance is the beginning of architectural mind.

Tags:

LATTICE BOOK HOUSE
SCENIC ARCHITECTURE OFFICE
PHOTOGRAPHY
Shan Liang
CREDITS

XIAOFENG ZHU

Zhu received his master degree of architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and bachelor degree in architecture from Shenzhen University. He founded Scenic Architecture Office in Shanghai in 2004. He has been teaching in Tongji University as guest critic since 2012. Scenic Architecture Office makes consistent efforts on using ontological architectural language to response to the needs from human, nature and society in every project, and establishing balanced and dynamic relevance among them through new architectural order.

Project Name: Lattice Book House
Location: Xuhui Riverfront Park, Shanghai, China
Architects: Zhu Xiaofeng, Liang Shan (Scenic Architecture Office)
Program: Book Store
Building Area: 350 m2
Building Height: 9.76 m
Structural System: Steel Lattice Wall + Steel Grid Beam
Materials: Dark grey paint, Laminated bamboo floor and ceiling, Aluminum mullion with internal steel tube, Super White Low-E IGU, Stainless Steel Handrail, Cement Board etc.
Design/Construction: 2014/2016
Client: Xuhui Riverfront Development Investment and Construction Ltd.
Structure and MEP: Tongji University Institute of Architectural Design and Research

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