HDD Shanghai Huadu Architecture & Urban Design 上海华都建筑规划设计有限公司

Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment

Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment

VERTICAL GARDEN _ CHINESE GARDEN MEETS ULTRA COMPACT APARTMENT

HDD

ARCHITECTS
HDD

BUDGET
$10K - 50K

AREA
0 sqft - 1000 sqft

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Shanghai, China

TYPE
Residential › Apartment

Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment

The project is located in an old historical district in Shanghai within more than 70 years. It has be the sole living space for three generations.

Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment

Now it will be served as a brand new apartment for the youngest couple.

With the limitation of 35sqm, the squeezed space should be sufficient for all three generations.

Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment

One of the biggest feature of the building is the triple height space.

The architect blend the spatial quality of Chinese garden with full richness into such a small apartment, transforming the space complexity from 2d to 3d, creating a dynamic moving experience in the project.

Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment

In the most of traditional Chinese gardens, the space is quite limited. So one should find a way to squeezed all nature elements into this small plot.

There are several techniques be used in Chinese landscape design, which could also be implemented into interior design.

"Seeing grandness through smallness" is one of the most important techniques.

Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment

One should experience much more bigger space in such small plot.

In this project, designer used many movable doors and furniture to transform space form closed to open, creating much more dynamic space experience in small scale.

People could see different thing by walking along the space. This is call "moving by seeing" in garden making.

Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment

All rooms become only a fracture of the whole experience, creating a holistic opera experience altogether.

The strategies of " winded walking circulations" as well as "borrowing views from outside" are also heavily implemented in the project.

Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment


Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment
Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment


Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment


Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment


Vertical Garden - Chinese Garden Meets Ultra Compact Apartment

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