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Reconstruction of an Ancient House / PaM Design Office

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RENOVATION, RESTAURANT & BAR INTERIORS • DALI, CHINA

Interior Designers: PaM Design Office

Area:  319 m²

Year:  2020

Photographs:  Mingxi Fan, Duoduo Mi

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"West or East" is a restaurant offering fine dining for travelers, with traditional Yunnan cuisine and new
dishes inspired by travelingsand history. It is located in No.25 Guangwu Road, Dali Ancient City.

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The restaurant is based in a two-yard ancient house where the first yard is the outside one and the second
yard is closely combined with original living space. The site is in a dilapidated condition, of which the L-
shaped two-level house is kept considering its historic value, while the rest collapsed part has been
demolished. The restaurant needs enough space for business, and this means new section must be added
to the site. 

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The relationship between the existing old section and the new addition has always been the key point of
the reconstruction project. We take it as the the existing “old shell” and the “new body”. The  “new body” is
originated from the “old shell”, keeping the shadow of the ancient architect but wholly brand-new. The
ancient architect reserved its speciaty besides necessary repair work. 

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The old section and the new addition each have two steps to connect the upper and lower levels. The new
architect has grown from the ancient one, as though piecing through it and reaching out to the first yard on
the outside. Adding initiative to the original conservatives, it sheds spotlight on the restaurant's public
nature. The new addition is also continuation of its new form.  

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The new addition adopted transparent spatial treatment, to distinguish it from depressing ancient
architect. The roof construction in wooden slats along  with coated glass ceiling， breaking the silence of
the ancient architect, enabled further contact between sunlight and the new architect. As transformation of
rafters, as shadows of the ancient architect, slats are also followings of roof mechanism of the ancient
architect across hundreds of years. Face to face, the addition is like a child in front of and old. 

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In view of the scale of the courtyard, the roof of new addition slants down to a side of it in this confined
space.  To highlight the fact that new architect has grew from the old, the side of the roof of new addition
connected with the old architect also slants down to the other side. In order to provide a better dining
environment, the ridge of the roof in the middle part is slightly lifted up. Thus, it forms into the present roof
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shape  and meanwhile affects the extended part of the new addition. 

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We wish the new addition could bring life to the ancient house. In a metaphor, they are two shapes of life.
One has witnessed hundreds of history while the other new-born one just experienced its first light of life.
Look forward to their bounded and legend future. 

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Address: Dali, Yunnan, China

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