Designed in 2017 by Nolan Chao of Archistry Design & Research Office, this inspiring apartment is located in Beijing, China.

Description by Nolan Chao
My name is Nolan Chao. I am an architect and I was born and now live in BeiJing. Took on this home space design because it has an interesting look at the typology of concept and space design for the public stereotypes of home space design it is difficult to bring in any kind of freshness.
The Beijing couple came to discuss with me told me that they need a different way of living,maybe just like living in ?hutong? (and only two of them and pets live here).
So I conceptualized the whole design basing on the idea of lanes and how to actually use it possibility.I can perform many of our so-called space”loading”.”uninstalling” and “building up inside” designs.
In this process I carefully maintained the balance because I realized it has the strong contradiction between privacy and openness.
So when the hosts want more privacy and isolation,they use something like the grills,curtains,and when they need more space and openness, they don’t.
Actually I removed some of the walls to create the new compounded rooms in order to expend the double or triple-size space,also the space was very boxy,because it is a typical living space which would probably be normal and boring without removing walls,and I conceptualized the different types of the block rooms as the space with ...