Urban Village Memorial Hall Renovation
This fortress-like house made entirely of concrete is located in Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen is a city full of legends, from a small fishing village to an international metropolis in just 40 years. This building is also legendary, he once fled to Hong Kong to work in the village, after earning money to return home to build a solid home for himself, is his own utopia. The house, which does not follow the logic of architectural design at all, has surprised the architects.
And the village in the city where it is located is also facing the future of demolition and reconstruction. My adaptive reuse design concept focuses on urban development, village history, and the value of the building itself. While protecting the strangeness of this building, it focuses on urban development issues and social realities. Using the concept of a "bird cage", a passageway is built next to the original building, including an elevator and stairs, to provide a better route for the conversion of this private building into a public building-"Urban Village Memorial Hall".
The cage symbolizes the village in the city, and the bird symbolizes the poor people living in the village in the city. They work in the bustling city, but have no freedom, and have little income, and live in the dilapidated village in the city. Cities need to develop, to demolish run-down urban villages and rebuild high-rise buildings, and they will lose their homes to survive.
The browsing route I designed was to enter the original building, visit it from the bottom up, and experience the depression, narrowness and closure of the original building at the bottom, gradually to the semi-open in the middle, and then to the open rooftop observation platform at the top. This is the idea of the original owner when he built, the higher the freedom. It is also the idea of countless people struggling at the bottom of the urban village, the higher the freedom. After finishing the tour at the top, visitors will take the bridge to the new traffic access and take the elevator or stairs down to the ground level to finish the tour.
