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Architects: HCCH Studio
- Area: 600 m²
- Year: 2020
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Photographs:Fangfang Tian, Qingyan Zhu
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Manufacturers: China South Glass, Hafele, Shanghai Shanfang Door Industry, Zhonghuan Stone Factory
Text description provided by the architects. A series of interventions breathes new life into the 3-story brick-concrete pseudo garden villa built in 1990s in Shanghai French Concession. The building experienced several times of refurbishment， lacking legible structure system and stylistic characteristic. It is a mundane patch among the neighborhood, juxtaposed with garden villas, 6-story public ho using and office towers to the further north. The building can be neither a nostalgia of concession, nor a mimic of modernism. It can only be itself under specific condition, trying to fit in while confronting its surroundings.
