Temporary accommodation and workspace for creative teams working in film and television production. The project combines Chinese painted screens, Qingdao’s Liyuan courtyard tradition and historic courtyard doors into a private, shaded and naturally ventilated building.
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Reference
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The brief required privacy without isolation.
The villas support rest, work and informal collaboration between production periods. Their references come from established forms of enclosure: painted screens, courtyard planning and timber entrance doors. A landscape scene from an antique Qingdao screen is translated into a perforation pattern across aluminium and brass panels. Historic courtyard doors form the principal threshold, connecting the building to Qingdao’s domestic and urban history.
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System
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Screen, courtyard, structure and climate work together.
The plan is organised around a courtyard, allowing rooms to open in more than one direction and enabling cross ventilation. Concrete provides thermal mass. Perforated aluminium and brass panels moderate light, shade and privacy while preserving openness. The screen module sets the rhythm of the cladding and the pattern of shadow inside. The courtyard door marks the transition from public exterior to protected interior.
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Resolution
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Private, but not closed.
The building is formed through controlled thresholds: street to door, door to courtyard, courtyard to room, room to light and air. It does not reproduce a traditional courtyard house. It translates its environmental intelligence and social atmosphere into a compact contemporary setting for creative work.
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