The BAN Villa project by B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio is located at the entrance to Jijiadun village, a small site surrounded on three sides by a small river, not far from farmland. The municipality, in order to breathe life back into the village, commissioned a team to rethink the possibilities of the relationship between the countryside and the city
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BAN Villa and the new rural community on the outskirts of Shanghai
The government of Jijiadun, where BAN Villa is located, decides to redevelop the village, an hour and a half away from Shanghai, to counter the Chinese phenomenon of urbanization that sees rural areas becoming increasingly empty
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BAN Villa is an open, shared house: a small portion serves as a private residence for the owner, while the rest is a shared space with guests. The architecture of the villa is imagined as a space that emerges from the fabric of the traditional city on the water of Jiangnan
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The design concept is to create ten boxes that are independent of each other but connected by a large continuous space. Because of these spaces between the volumes, nature has the opportunity to penetrate inside, blurring the boundary between inside and outside. From a distance, the ten boxes look like a small floating village
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The choice of materials for both architecture and interior responds to the concept and spatial strategy: the designers choose different materials for each level to create a different atmosphere. The ground floor façade features laminated bamboo, which respectfully blends in with its surroundings while providing a warm and relaxing feeling with a soft touch, while pure white lends a sense of simplicity and cleanliness
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