postmodern Chinese bookstore

postmodern Chinese bookstore  (TAO)

Xianfeng xiadi paddy bookstore is located in the north of xiadi ancient village, Pingnan, Fujian Province, surrounded by a paddy field. The predecessor of the building is a long abandoned local house. When the architect arrived, only three intact rammed earth old walls and broken courtyard walls remained.

Based on respect for the site history and the overall landscape of the village, the new part is basically hidden in the old wall, and nothing seems to happen from the outside. The remaining old walls are regarded as containers, which cover the new buildings built by concrete and steel structures, forming a dialogue between the contemporary and the traditional.

In the interior, the concrete wall with two folded lines becomes the new structure main body, and the two floor slabs are cantilevered to the two wings. They connect with the rammed wall at the corner to stabilize the structure of the old wall, and the edge is separated from the old wall to let the light enter the interior from the skylight. A closed and inward Bookstore display space is formed between the wall and the concrete wall. Between the two concrete walls, the small theater, the largest space within the building, is defined, which becomes a surprise found unexpectedly after the narrow space.

Light enters from the top skylight, passes through the gap between the broken line floor and the rammed wall, and at some time, fully describes the vicissitudes of the rammed wall. The concrete takes the local carbonated pine in Pingnan as the template, and the wood grain concrete is rough and delicate, forming a dialogue between new materials and old objects with the ancient mottled rammed earth wall.

In the center of the building, a steel column penetrates the concrete structure and supports an umbrella roof on it. Its location and form indicate the disappeared roof of the old house. The shelter space under the umbrella provides a cool and distant place, just like a Pavilion rising in the field. The umbrella roof structure is cantilevered, and the load is transferred to the only steel column through the main beam, so that the gravity is gathered in the center of the house. The four corner channel steel pulls the roof to maintain its lateral stability. The rainwater flows through the channel steel to the inward inclined concrete roof and then flows back to the center, becoming another form of four water hall.