Layering Yard in Qianmen, Beijing Building, Mixed-Use Facility, Architecture Images
Layering Yard in Qianmen, Beijing
Housing and Meeting, Conference and Function Spaces in China – design by ARCHSTUDIO
24 May 2018
Layering Yard
Architects: ARCHSTUDIO
Location: Qianmen, Beijing, China
Layering Yard
Layering Yard is hidden in a traditional commercial block near the Qianmen of Beijing, with an area of about 500 square meters. The original architecture was a quadrangle courtyard commercial building with the characteristics of houses in the Republican period. Compared with residential houses, the houses here are bigger and higher.

There is a row of arched doors and windows on the south along the street, and two-story houses on the north. Before the renovation, the housing structure was completely rebuilt; with the courtyard there were no doors, windows or walls, but exposed rough wooden structure beams. It is said that it was a brothel in the Republican period, then transformed into a bakery after the foundation of China, and later was left unused after the reconstruction. In the future, the building will be a complex for public activities and living. Therefore, while improving the quality of construction and infrastructure, this renovation focused on creating experience in particular scenes based on the Hutong environment, aiming to attract urban population who have increasingly diversified consumption demands.
A prominent feature of traditional architecture is the lay...