YIXING BOOKSTORE AND TEAHOUSE
Location: Yixing, Jiangsu, China
Client: Dingshu Town Government
Architects: ZHU Yuan, XU Qingqing, FAN Cheng, LIU Wenjun, ZHANG Pingping.
Profile: Located in Dingshu, Yixing, the bookstore and teahouse is the end note of the tour-route of Gunan Street, around which are low-rise pitched roof houses with brick and wood structures. Responding to the relationship with the site, this project hopes to rethink and transform the traditional elements with new configuration of space and structure, which also contribute to the integrated experience between interior and exterior space when crossing a series of glabes. In addition, the porous wooden shelves act as both facade elements and dividers, meanwhile, become the guiding clues of architectural experience.
