Photo credit: Peter Dixie @ Lotan Architectural Photography
exhibition hall functions as a comprehensive service centre, as well as an information centre housing the exhibits showcasing the renovation and changes of the ancient town of Nantou. Drawing inspiration from verandas in traditional Lingnan architecture and gardens, the design team created a zigzag corridor connecting the architectural volumes, resulting in an endless realm within the limited enclosed space.
A bookstore was
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embedded into the space of two atria, linking the first and second floors through different levels of stairs
The skylight provides swathes of light and provides for the integration of solidity and void
which formed a vertical circulation route while Photo credit: Bruce Zhen
Photo credit: Bruce Zhen
the urban memory
Upward view of the soaring book tower
creating rich, playful, visual effects and experiences within the limited space.
Hidden in clear daylight
From design scheme to construction, the project only took about five months
Located in Renqui City in Hebei Province, China, the
and the mall subsequently
Yuanping Meijing Bookstore is a retail destination hidden
reopened to positive
in the clear daylight of the atriums within the Renqui
responses from shoppers. As
Yuanping Meijimg Commercial Plaza.
the core of the mall, the new
With 24 floors in total — with 1F-5F serving as a mall,
bookstore has gained great
6F-18F occupied by a hotel, and the remaining floors
popularity, and provides
above used as workspaces — the plaza owners wanted
perfect space for signing
to improve the performance of the commercial spaces.
events, art exhibitions and
Impressed by the spatial opportunities at the plaza, y.ad
other activities. The reuse
studio responded to the client’s determination to make a
and activation of the entire
holistic adjustment and change to reactivate the entire mall.
space has helped attract
Undeterred by the slightly chaotic spatial arrangement
younger consumers to the
at the site, y.ad studio was inspired by the soaring,
busineses and spaces newly
daylight-filled atria, re-imagining their potential to
introduced into the mall.
provide commercial space.
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