There is a 99-year-old abandoned Sanheyuan on the site and it will be demolished for a new residential project shortly.  We were asked to design a temporary reception center before the construction of the new residential project. We decided to keep the Sanheyuan as part of the spatial design experiment for the reception center and also can be seen as a farewell exhibition for the 99-year-old house.

The design wraps around the back of the old house and form a new courtyard with fluid corridor spaces that closely aligned to the weathered walls and vegetation at points, framing the view to the old Sanheyuan with window openings and glazing to present memories of time as artworks in the new space.

A new model home for the new residential project as a white object is planed inside the original courtyard of the Sanheyuan and connected with glazing hallway facing both the old and the new, the past and present.

The story between the new and the old in this project created many interesting perspectives for exploration. Spaces between moments of present and the past seemed intimate, and yet there is always a time left over in between now and then for further imagination. It's time to farewell the old and welcome the new.

p.s. Sanheyuan - a historical type of residence that has structure on three sides of courtyard form an inverted U-shape.

基地中心是一栋将近百年的古厝，即将被拆除改建，我们的任务是为改建的新建案在原地设计接待中心。回顾这栋近百年古厝，虽已荒置许久，但深深地受其吸引，感受到其魅力所在，因此启发了我们以其为设计中心的想法，希望藉此让参访者能再次对老宅做一次巡礼。

设计手法上让新的建筑量体与老宅间产生交错穿越的效果，我们以穿透的弧形廊道环绕三合院，并串联新旧空间，我们刻意让参访者游走于廊道间，以便一窥老宅像艺术品般斑驳的砖墙与爬满树根的缝隙，也刻意利用部分老宅原有的空间作为新的用途，让参访者有新旧转换的空间体验，两种空间相望，产生不同的冲击与体验。也藉此向老宅致敬与告别！让过去的美好永存于新的使用者心中！！