Kind of Project:

Architecture, Hospitality, Residential

Location:

Shenzhen, China

Site Area:

3,000 m2

GFA:

2,700 m2

Budget:

N/A

Period:

2007-2008

ICE Design Team:

Ulrich Kirchhoff, Louise Low, Claudia Wigger

The three villas form the heart of a live-in factory. Targeting business travelers and management, the idea was to create a hotel-like typology with a highly spatial public core, which connects through all three floors.As the villas face mainly the factory buildings and with the absence of any view, we decided to focus all spatial experience onto the interior. Taking the 'Miesian' open plan concept and stretch it through all floors created an open plan, without walls, but distinct areas of function.The spatial organization is based on the developed program of BEL (Business - Entertainment - Living), where the public areas offer BEL cluster with a specific spatial quality. These areas are eventually connected through the 3-dimensional open plan.