Yard Seclusion China, Chinese Farm Accommodation Building, Contemporary brick house
Yard Seclusion – Accommodation in a Farm
Chinese low cost Architecture: Building Development ? design by Evolution Design
10 Oct 2018
Yard Seclusion – Accommodation in Farm
Design: Ray Jin / Evolution Design – Lei Jin, Tianqi Guan, Teng Guo, Xueting Zhang and Yanping Hu
Location: China
Yard Seclusion – Accommodation in Farm
Evolution Design is exploring a brand-new operating mode to resolve the social issues commonly found in China today. The architects look for vacant houses in the countryside villages, convert these places into design-quality living space under a short time span and with good cost management.
While training local farmers to provide warm host services, develop dining menus based on local agricultural products, and 75 percent sales revenue belongs to local farmer with more young people returning to the village.
The architects saved the texture and spacial relationship between the original farm house building and the surrounding courtyards, so that they can mingle with the arteries and veins of the village, preserving the countryside memory, and also making adaptations as needed to the surrounding environment. The architects persists in the principle of originating ?outside? of tradition, yet coexists with tradition, allowing it to extend and cherish in a more respectful way.

Original entry-way and its adjacent recess area was rebuilt into an indepe...