By HE Shen 何珅
- Architects: NEXT architects
- Address: Fuzhou City, Fuzhou Province, China, 350000
- Design Team: NEXT architects
- Area: 48000 m2
- Year: 2015
- Photography: NEXT architects
From the architect. The project is located on a complicated site, in the old city centre of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province. With a Floor Area Ratio of 5,0 and many limiting conditions, a U-shaped floorpan manifested itself as optimum. The program required 400 apartments of 45-110 m2 in size, resulting in an stagering mass of identical units. Variety and diversity is created by manipulating the balconies around the building. Like the famous local ‘seal-stone’ or ‘shouxi-stone’, the balconies are crafted around the main building volume. This crafting creates a wide variety of individual apartments, each with their different exterior space.
On the ground floor, between the U-shaped volume, a collective ‘living-room’ for all inhabitants is created.
Awarded the ‘Gold Medal Chinese Architectural Housing Design Competition 2012′
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