Hutong Children’s Library and Art Centre Beijing, China Structure Project, Design Images, Chinese Architecture
Hutong Children’s Library and Art Centre, Beijing
Micro Yuan?er Building Development in China – design by ZAO / standardarchitecture / Zhang Ke Architects
3 Oct 2016
Hutong Children’s Library & Art Centre in China
Location: Beijing, China
Photos: AKTC / Wang Ziling, ZAO, standardarchitecture
A children?s library selected for its embodiment of contemporary life in the traditional courtyard residences of Beijing?s Hutongs.
Architect: ZAO / standardarchitecture / Zhang Ke

Abu Dhabi, UAE, 3rd of October 2016 ? The winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today in a ceremony in Abu Dhabi. One of the 6 winning projects:
Micro Yuan?er, Beijing
Hutong Children?s Library and Art Centre, Beijing

Cha’er Hutong is a quiet spot one kilometre from Tiananmen Square in the city centre. Number 8 in this neighbourhood, located near a major mosque, is a typical da-za-yuan (big-messy-courtyard) once occupied by over a dozen families.

The courtyard is about 300-400 years old and once housed a temple that was then turned into residences in the 1950s. Over the past fifty or sixty years, each family built a small add-on kitchen in the courtyard.

In concert with the families, a nine-metre-square children’s library built of plywood was inserted underneath the pitched roof of an existing building.

Award Cycle: 2014-2016 Cycle
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