House of the Season Youli Bed & Breakfast, Beijing אדריכלות ישראלית Architecture of Israel #137 May 2024 | 88 | corridor is not only a channel connecting the interior and exterior, but also plays a key role in the space division and external modelling of the building. Staircases, corridors, and ever-changing elevations all appear in one scene, reminiscent of Escher’s work where different spaces and perspectives converge. The interior spaces did not use any unique materials. The base of the design uses wood, a natural material, and the aspiration was to reflect relaxation, comfort and a certain sense of quality through the use of ordinary but highquality wood. The architectural vocabulary of structure, glass and balustrade becomes part of the interior elements, and the interior space has more architectural significance after the transformation, blurring the boundary between indoor and outdoor. The guest room space does not deliberately do too much decoratively, but according to the status quo of the original house, will be for living, leisure, view and other functional pastimes. At the same time, combined with management needs, it represents the construction essence and unique spacial forms.” House of the season Youli Bed & Breakfast, Beijing Natalie Mann Due to the small interior space of the building and the cold winter in the north, the original courtyard space can be incorporated into the interior to keep out the cold and solve the problems of circulation while increasing interior space. The eastern gable of the large house is the main facade viewed when going up the mountain, while the triangular geometry is easily recognizable and has great visual impact. The slanted roof also avoids the visual pressure caused by the large vertical volume while the rectangular volume of the small house serves as a foil. In addition to considering visual and psychological factors, the architects also hope to create a dialogue and echo with traditional Chinese architecture. The classical three-stage composition of the roof, the wall and the base of ancient Chinese architecture also solves the practical functional needs of the design to deal with the height difference of the entrance, the internal enclosure and lighting and viewing. The original building gate is directly adjacent to and facing the street, and the design skews the direction of the entrance vertically and inserts it into the interior of the building, forming a triangular opening in a rectangular entrance space in line with the external form of the building, which not only retains the practical function of the canopy, but also strengthens the spatial orientation of the entrance, forming an expressive, muted space inside and out. Even in the summer the sun sets early in the mountains, and the whole village turns dark. In the evening, the interior lights up the buildings and roads, and illuminated glass boxes serve as "beacons" for visitors and passers-by. There is a small garden on the south side of the site road, and the owner hopes to transform it into a supporting service for homesteads in a later stage. The protruding platform of the inclined roof shortens the viewing distance to the mountain opposite and also becomes a platform for dialogue with the opposing site in the future. The roof space of the original building could not be filled, so the design set an external staircase in the gap between the two houses to avoid the stairs taking up too much interior space, but also to provide visitors with different perspectives and spatial feelings of the mountain view. The space covered by the inclined roof has more possibilities for living areas. Through the redesign of the elevation and the reorganization of the flow line, the original staircase was preserved, with the lower part of the staircase forming a rich activity space. In order to redefine the service space , the The owners - a middle-aged couple who work in the urban sprawl of Beijing. In 2022 they bought two small houses near Jingdong Grand Canyon in Pinggu, a suburb of Beijing, hoping to transform them into one warm, pastoral home, that may help them with extra living expenses when retiring. Arriving at the site for the first time, the architect was attracted by the mountain and natural environment surrounding the plot. However, the current situation of the original building is not ideal. The two houses are located at the corner of a road, backed by a mountain, and the interior and courtyard spaces are completely exposed to the view of people as they descend the mountain. The building is a typical northern, rural, self-built house, and the appearance and functional layout are rough and simple. The challenge was how to create dialogue with the surrounding landscape and create rich interior and natural pastoral outdoor spaces while maintaining privacy.
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