The Nanjing No. 72 courtyard project is located in the important historical area of the Drum Tower in Nanjing. There are dozens of Metasequoia and phoenix trees over 70 years old in the site. The most important thing is that it is adjacent to the cultural preservation building designed by Mr. Yang Tingbao - the former site of the Central Chinese Painting. It is also a rare modern enclosed, low-rise and low-density building complex in the city center.

The project has a total construction area of 43,540 square meters and a height of 4 floors. The main function is creative office and exhibition. The strategy adopted in the design is that the 3 surrounding buildings in the 5 buildings have sloping roofs, forming a complete surrounding image together with the sloping roofs of the old buildings.

Convergent Design

The modern construction of traditional buildings should not be blindly reproduced and copied, nor should it be unconventional and radical, but should be a "convergent design" that respects the traditional architectural style, proportion and color, but adopts contemporary architectural techniques in the completion of the landing giving the building new expressiveness.

Convergent Design

The modern construction of traditional buildings should not be blindly reproduced and copied, nor should it be unconventional and radical, but should be a "convergent design" that respects the traditional architectural style, proportion and color, but adopts contemporary architectural techniques in the completion of the landing giving the building new expressiveness.

Dialogue between old and new buildings

We often say, "God exists in the details". Brick (gray), stone (white) and wood (red) are the materials and colors used by Yang Lao when designing old buildings, and most of the old buildings in Nanjing are like this. The dialogue between old buildings follows a principle: “contrast in coordination, and response in contrast”. The two glass boxes adjacent to the new building and the old building are exactly the two glass boxes. There is a drainage fir between the old and new buildings. The designer separated and extracted the facade of the old buildings, and then innovatively used profiles + stone to echo the materials and colors of the old buildings.

Epilogue

"Convergent design" allow us to always maintain a humble attitude, respect the history, respect the site, and respect the original architectural style. However, in the control of the completion degree, we boldly make positive innovations in the traditional architectural language from a technical point of view, and use technology to realize the modern expression of traditional architectural language and texture, so as to complete the iteration of traditional architectural language and create a modern construction for traditional buildings. Continue to broaden the boundaries of creativity.