The Borderless Community of Zi Ni Twelve Portals is a housing project in Guangzhou, China, designed by Fei Architects to show off its occupants.
Located in Zi Ni Tang Park, the renovation project, which has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020, carved out wide windows and balconies with a variety of material finishes.
The facade is covered in balconies
The local studio removed the original exterior maintenance wall but maintained the existing deep eaves.
A 1.5-metre wide slab concrete structure was added to create external balconies and corridors. Perforated brick screens, half walls, glass bricks and porthole windows create framing devices for the occupants to see and be seen by each other and passersby.
At night the backlit apartments are framed like screens "As night falls, the whole building resembles a series of framed giant screens, playing a vivid film of everyday life," said the studio.
Fei Architects designed the project for seven occupants who identify as slash youths ? a younger generation of Chinese people who embrace digital entrepreneurship and multiple creative jobs.
"The slash youths are engaged in various industries and their work demands high social exposure," explained the studio.
"Therefore they would like to exhibit their works, products and even their operation model and everyday life so as to usher in a brand new urban lifestyle distinguished from the commuter's routine followed by most of their peers."
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