ARCADE KINDERGARTEN

# 2 ARCHITECTURE OF CULTURAL INHERITANCE

Research work / Summer

2021

Individual Work

Location：Guangzhou, China

Supervisor : Dr Nikolia Kartalou n.kartalou@ed.ac.uk for research

Inspired by my architecture blogging and summer internship with Atelier CNS, a Guangzhou-based architecture firm famous for renovating Yongqing Fang (a traditional arcade street community) I initiate this arcade kindergarten project, aiming to unpack the renovation of unique arcade streets in an educational proposal, which aims to restore the missing link between children and local architecture, through a that proposed the and wisdom of traditional housing.

A HISTORY JOURNEY OF GUANGZHOU'S ARCADE STREET

Vernacular Cantoneses Housing Developed Process

Cantonese arcades are such an interesting case that in fact summarise the intricate urban renewal process of vernacular Cantonese architecture in the last two hundred years, from Saikuan Mansion to ZhuTong house etc. it is a valuable miniature that represents Guangzhou‘s urban history: to opening as a trading port, industrialization, urbanization… yet all of those are disappearing