Xiangshan Business Club (2012)

Project Data
 
Total GFA:   12.000m2
Location:   Beijing, China
Function:   Protected heritage Village Ensemble
Features:   Only project getting building permission on Xiangshan Park
Scope:   Master Plan, Architectural Design Concept, SD, CD, DD, Site-Supervision
Status:   Completed
 
 
Project Summary
 
The new Master Plan has been designed closely around the existing buildings scattered on site, preserving the urban character and intimate atmosphere rather than the building’s exterior, in most places currently of poor quality. Equally, the majority of trees on site could be retained by minimizing the vehicular access to a single lane circular landscape path, doubling as a landscape feature.

Spatially, the strategy is to create villas that feel individual and rich in character, with sunken courtyards, terraces, balconies, panoramic roofs and intimate nooks and niches, resembling the aesthetic and spatial abundance of the traditional Chinese village while preserving exquisite layout and privacy. Villa’s front gardens extend over the landscape path, adding a sense of generosity and openness to each individual club villa as well as the project in its entirety. Divided by a series of unique golden landscape feature walls, the circular access acquires a sense of gateway procession leading from one villa to the next, from one garden into the other.

The rich spatial set up is reflected in the villa’s various functional elements: pools, cigar lounges, tea ceremony lounges, meeting and social areas, bedrooms and studies all feature a unique character in each villa, some secluded and secretive, some openly generous, some with stunning panoramas of Beijing city or the directly adjacent Xiang Shan park.