Reading City · Shamian ｜ Let the historical style leave marks in repair and activation

Author:Yangcheng Evening News Yangche Time:2022.09.16

Text/Yangcheng Evening News all -media reporter Huang Shi

Figure/Yangcheng Evening News all -media reporter Chen Qiuming Huang Shi Shi Yong

Walking in Guangzhou Sand, the building of western elements silently tells the century -old history.

No. 28, Shamian South Street (Jianzhu · Sino -French Architectural Cultural Exchange Center)

In July of this year, No. 28, Shamian South Street made a new appearance as a joint building, China -French Architecture Cultural Exchange Center. Li Minqian, deputy chief architect of Beijing Architectural Design and Research Institute and executive chief architect in South China Design Center, has witnessed the repair and activation process of this European -style building in the past two years. As a native architect in Guangzhou, Li Minqian's feelings of Lao Guang, and on the basis of integrating modern design concepts, his team continued to discover the historical fragments of this old building, tracing the mark of Shamian life a century ago.

Li Minqian, deputy chief architect of Beijing Architect

Trace: Re -picked up historical fragments

No. 28, Shamian South Street. For a century, the well -preserved building exterior wall allows tourists to pass on to guests, but like other European -style buildings on the island, few public door is closed all the time, and few public can see its internal truth.

No. 28, Shamian South Street, has been a well -known for a long time as Baolong Ocean

In early 2020, the French Jean Nuville Architects and the Beijing Architectural Design Research Institute jointly repaired 28 Shamian South Street. It was at this time that Li Minqian crossed the iron door for the first time to appreciate the interior of this historical style building, but he was also accompanied by wrong. "After two transformations, it is difficult to see the appearance of the year after the years."

The historical traces of tracing the architecture itself, presenting the original old story of the original flavor, is the common expectations of these two design firms. "During the repair process, we decided to knock out the new wall of the new reform and restore the design space and historical style of the building itself." Li Minqian remembered this important part of protective repair. Then during the construction of the construction site, they were surprised to find the fireplace hidden in the wall, the wall pier full of old culture, and discovering the historical traces of the century -old architecture to fascinate them.

The process of discovering the historical traces of century -old architecture makes designers fascinating

The solemn arches, the walls burned by the fireplace, the historic dome glass window ... These old fragments that were opened and put down by the years at 28, Shamian South Street were picked up in the persistence of traceability. Essence

Activation: new place for architectural cultural exchanges

Nowadays, after the re -decorative Sand South Street, the overall plain wall of the inside is clean and elegant under the decoration of the lights, which has a sense of heavyness and a modern sense of modern modernity.

The restoration of the terrace at 28 Shamian South Street

The activated three -story century building has become a multi -functional composite cultural space. On the first floor, various permanent and temporary exhibitions float in front of you. The second and third floors are used as an office area for architectural design firms. If you carefully capture it with your eyes, historical fragments such as arches and fireplaces carefully retained in all corners of the office area.

The first floor of the building is used in the exhibition area

In Li Minqian's opinion, this building space is currently began to have a dialogue about time and space, which is quite humane. "Open exhibitions no longer give the citizens out of the door, and given a new connotation of a century -old building with a modern office environment coexisting with historical. Chinese and Western architectural culture is integrated here, which closes the distance between people and buildings. New vitality. "

Chinese and Western architectural culture here collision and integration

In the afternoon full of sunshine, a group of architectural designers appeared in the terrace of the construction of the Sino -French Architectural Cultural Exchange Center. A Salon of the past and the future was quietly staged. More unfinished stories were on 28, Shamian South Street 28 The number occurred.