Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
The project is located on a
complicated site, in the old city centre of Fuzhou, the capital of the Fujian Province. With a Floor Area Ratio
of 5,0 and many limiting conditions, a U-shaped floorpan manifested itself as
optimum. The program required 400 apartments of 45-110 m2 in size, which could
result in a staggering mass of identical units, to prevent this variety and
diversity is created by manipulating the balconies around the building.
Like the famous local ‘seal-stone’
or ‘shouxi-stone’, the balconies are crafted around the main building volume.
This crafting creates a wide variety of individual apartments, each with their
different exterior space. On the ground floor, between the U-shaped volume, a
collective ‘living-room’ for all inhabitants is created.
Fuzhou Shouxi building was awarded
the ‘Gold Medal Chinese Architectural Housing Design Competition 2012.’