The narrowest wedding room in Guangzhou: 44m2 building 10 room.

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Northeast girl Wen Wen and her husband A Heng

After studying in Australia,

Choose to return to Aheng's hometown of Guangzhou to live.

They decided to leave grandma heng's house.

A dilapidated building in the old city is used as a wedding room.

The house is only 3 meters wide.

The use area is only 20 square meters.

The surrounding environment is also very bad,

The house is so close that there is no privacy at all.

The couple invited designer Xie Yingkai.

Four months of radical transformation,

Not only has the house tripled visually,

It also has 10 rooms.

Includes two bathrooms,

Study, cloakroom and even a rooftop bar.

Two cats also have custom-made cat nests.

The internal pattern is exactly the same as that of the small building.

There are staggered floors, slopes and skylights.

A "humble abode" that can only survive,

Finally, it became the sweet "bird's nest" of life.

Author | Shao Editor | Deng

This is Yuexiu District, the old city of Guangzhou. When the city expanded rapidly, young people moved to new areas. Decades have passed, leaving only old houses and old people guarding them.

The home of Ahern and Wen Wen is here, a pure white building. In the shabby old house, it stands out.

The hut before the renovation

The house was left to him after his grandmother died, and he was reluctant to sell it. In addition, the house is a school district, and he wants to stay as a wedding room.

The environment in the area where the small building is located is very bad. Many houses are very shabby, some are public rental houses with a room age of more than 20 years, and some houses are rented out to foreigners as warehouses on the first floor. The residential building is next to the building, which is quite crowded.

The couple went to Xie Yingkai, a designer, hoping to completely transform the house.

On the right is the designer Xie Yingkai.

A Heng and Wen Wen both studied in Australia before they settled in Guangzhou.

Xie Yingkai said, "I specifically asked them if they could accept a relatively new and unconventional house, which may be related to their study abroad experience. They are very acceptable, so that the shackles of our transformation will be smaller. "

This is the smallest house designed by Xie Yingkai: "I walked alone that day, and it was still raining. I got lost when I was walking. I suddenly found that I couldn't find this house. In fact, it is too small to find it. "

The house is only 3 meters wide and 7 meters high. Grandma lives alone in the original house. She rented half of it as a warehouse on the first floor, and only one bed can be put on the second floor. At the beginning, in order to facilitate grandma's walking, the stairs were widened, which occupied half of the house.

The design took more than 2 months, and the 7-version rectification plan was put forward, which was finalized and cost nearly 800 thousand.

Moving the stairs to the middle of the house will double the space.

The original beams, columns and stairs of the old house were destroyed as long as they were not load-bearing structures.

The first step in the renovation is to move the stairs from a corner to the middle of the room. In this way, a left-right parallel space is formed, which can be used alone or together.

Therefore, the stairs placed in the middle become a part of the family life scene.

The stairs on the first floor extend out of the kitchen countertop; The stairs on the second floor can be used as stools and can be taken away when not in use; The staircase in the bedroom is a gentle dresser.

Each floor is about 8 cm to 10 cm, and all structural beams are hidden in the facade of the wall, making the whole building look thin.

Because of the gap between floors caused by staggered floors, the line of sight can see another room through the gap, breaking the physical boundary and causing the illusion of sight.

Some stairs are transparent, just like a work of art made of steel plate, which can penetrate the gap between two spaces and make people feel very open.

90% of the furniture is custom-made.

A Heng and Wen Wen put forward many requirements for Xie Yingkai: a cloakroom, a desk or study of their own, and space for children's activities in the future.

Wen Wen married from the northeast to Guangzhou, and his parents who were far away in Shenyang missed their daughter and came to Guangzhou to stay temporarily. Therefore, Wen Wen also suggested that parents need temporary living space.

In Xie Yingkai's view, the most important thing to realize various life scenes in a small space is functional integration.

Dining rooms don't always need tables, and living rooms don't always need chairs. If all the furniture is spread out in a small space, it will take up a lot of space. "We tried to get rid of all these functions. In fact, these functions are available. "

90% of the furniture in the home is customized, and even the functions of electrical appliances are integrated. Dishwasher and sink are integrated, oven and microwave oven are integrated, washing machine and dryer are integrated, saving more space.

The dining table in the living room on the first floor is hidden in the wall, and there is a 1 m2 cot in the sofa area that can be pulled out.

Tatami, which can store things, is also a bed, which can be used for parents who are warm. At the same time, the handrail of the stairs is a lamp that can rotate the angle and illuminate the stairs.

Aheng and Wenwen proposed to have two bathrooms before the design, so they don't have to rush to get up in the morning.

Two bathrooms have successfully appeared in the transformed house, one next to the cloakroom and the other next to the study. There are also kitchen, living room, study, activity room, bedroom, cloakroom and two cat nests, which add up to 10 rooms, and there is also a rooftop.

The cat's nest is a miniature version of the owner's house.

A Heng's parents have three cats at home, and so does her sister. After they get married, A Heng intends to take two of the six cats in the family and move into their nest. Before they lived in Australia, they were accompanied by kittens during the epidemic, and their lives could not be separated from them.

Xie Yingkai thought that although the house was small, two cats should have their own house, so he designed two extra cat nests to coordinate with the house.

He first investigated the common cat nests in the market, and found that many cat nests were very functional, brightly colored, conspicuous and out of place at home. Some cat nests are even a basket, simply laying a piece of cloth, without considering the cat's nature of moving up and down.

These two special cat nests are miniature versions of the owner's house, and there are also staggered floors, stairs, slopes and skylights.

The designer also invited cats of different breeds and sizes to do experiments to see how they walk, sleep, drink water and eat, whether they bump their heads and whether they have enough space to eat. After several editions of adjustment, the shapes of the two cat houses were finally determined.

Three kinds of color temperature to adjust the indoor atmosphere.

The facade of the house is curved in both the sky and the horizontal plane.

The curved wall is uneven, and the sun will bring shadows when it falls on the roof. Xie Yingkai said: "This kind of shadow makes people feel very comfortable and soft, and it can also give people some spiritual feelings. Many public buildings, such as churches, will do this design. "

The design was inspired by Langxiang Church in le corbusier.

At the same time, the arc can guide the line of sight and make people have an illusion about space.

In a cube, if every boundary is very clear, people can see how many meters high and how many meters wide it is at a glance, and they will think that this space is very small.

But when a clear boundary is removed and made into an arc or a row of light-transmitting windows, people will feel that this space has no boundary and the house seems to be bigger than before.

There are three kinds of color temperature lights in the cabin that can be adjusted.

The lighting design of the hut is also very particular. In Xie Yingkai's view, a good lighting design can also enlarge the space: "The general lighting is 10 cm wide, and we only choose 3 cm or 5 cm, which will make the whole space look much bigger."

In addition, the lamp body is hidden in the side, and only a row of long beams can be seen in secondary lighting, but the lamp itself can not be seen.

The whole house lighting system has three color temperatures. The warmest light is 3300k K K. If you want to read the newspaper, switch to 4000k with one button. During the day, it is closer to natural light, which can be adjusted to 4500 K. There is also a key switch on each floor, which can reduce the brightness by 3% or 40% with one key.

Magic skylight:

You can ice wine, raise fish, soak your feet and bathe your cat.

There were only a few small windows in the old house before the renovation, probably because the house was too close, and the windows were deliberately made small for privacy reasons. Therefore, the lighting in the previous house was very poor, and it was necessary to turn on the lights during the day, and ventilation was even more problematic.

After the transformation, the big window faces the wall and roof of the neighbor's house, which is not afraid that the neighbor will see the room.

The windows on the first floor also have an upward inclination angle, so that the outside line of sight cannot be directed into the space. Several rows of narrow windows are only 30 cm wide, which greatly increases the effect of light entering. One-way perspective glass is used to better protect privacy.

The reason why the designer didn't choose French windows is because the house is too closely connected with the surrounding area, and the light reflection will affect the surrounding residents.

The skylight of the top bedroom leads the line of sight to the sky, cleverly avoiding the shabby environment of the old city. Although A Heng and Wen Wen live in the old city, they can also have the same sky as the new city.

The split-level design gave Wen Wen his dream cloakroom, but it was a little dark, so Xie Yingkai designed a small glass skylight to increase the lighting.

To Aheng's surprise, the glass skylight is also a small pool with different functions.

After the washing machine console on the roof is turned into a bar, the small pool can be turned into a wine cabinet, and beer and champagne can be chilled by putting ice cubes on it.

Xie Yingkai also specially installed hot and cold water for the small pool, which can not only soak feet, but also be used as a fish tank to raise fish. After the couple have a baby, they can also become a small swimming pool for their children. A Heng and Wen Wen usually bathe two cats here.

After the house was renovated, Xie Yingkai proposed to name it "Dwelling House". "/kloc-the house on the floor above 0/0 square meter should be a' humble abode'. Through our changes, I hope that the house can become a warm nest and let them live a good life in a small space. "

Xie Yingkai's custom-made photo wall for the cabin

When Aheng was studying in Australia, he liked to cook for Wenwen. Now on the weekend, he will show his talents, entertain relatives and friends in Guangzhou at the dining table on the first floor, and then go to the rooftop bar on the top floor to have a drink with friends.

Wen Wen said: "Woju continues the state of two people living together when we were studying in Australia, and it also makes us look forward to our future life."

Photo courtesy: Duncan James Wen Design Office