Designed in 2017 by Atelier Alter, this contemporary 1,615 sq ft apartment is located in Beijing, China.

Description by Atelier Alter
The interior design of Wang?s Residence revolves around two questions: what kind of design best reflects the characters and values of contemporary Chinese families and how such design could serve to better satisfy the special needs of today?s households.
Compared to the structure of the urban Chinese families of the past generation, we believe that no major changes in family structure have taken place. Essentially, today?s families still mainly comprise of the parent, one or two children, and the elders who would occasionally come to help take care of the children. Even after a substantial urbanization process, family lives merely expanded horizontally within a single unit, with the only noticeable difference being that the newer generation of children is being valued differently than that of the past generations. Essentially, today’s families pay much more attention to the education of their children as well as to the amount of time and the quality of the time they spend with their children. As such, there is an immediate demand for even healthier, safer and higher quality environment for children to grow, to develop and to cherish. Since the typical renovation period of a house is approximately 10 years, the design of a house can certainly be adjust to more closely align with the children’s growth process...