Reading the city · Shamian ｜ Let it go to the next century in a more beautiful posture

Text/Yangcheng Evening News all media reporter Shi Peilin

Figure/Yangcheng Evening News reporter Chen Qiuming Huang Shi (except signed)

No. 39, Shamian Street, a century -old building, and a coordinate. From the original Sassoon Ocean, to the later French missionary society. In the long history, different people have operated or lived here. The appearance of the building changes with many factors, and the connotation of this coordinate has also changed. Now, it integrates modern life in the form of a cafe and is open to citizens, becoming a new way for people to experience the humanistic spirit of sandy cultural relics.

Building 39, Shamian Street has Western neo -classical style (provided by the respondent)

Restart: Find the original appearance according to clues

"For this building with a history of more than 160 years, we may be just a passer -by, but we have the obligation to repair it and let it go to the next 160 years with a more beautiful attitude." Choose to settle in sand, and the foundation for coffee to be founded by coffee. People Deng Ziyang admits that it is a kind of feeling, hoping to tap the beauty of the century -old building with people.

More than a year ago, the "back and forth" repair team stepped into this building and found that the interior of the building was very complicated and confused; many turmoil and changes in the century -old history have made its internal structure far from its initial design planning.

By consulting historical data and related research, the designers learned about the twists and turns of this old building: this building has a typical Western neoclassical style. The original identity was Sassoon Ocean. Lou, Xinzhili Western Bank. The years have passed, and the original information of the building has long been lost and cannot be obtained. This did not extinguish the enthusiasm of the original building of the building: the original data could not be found to repair, at least you can find clues according to the status quo, to reasoning details like "solving the case", and restore the original appearance of the building to a certain extent.

The first and second floors of No. 39 Shamian Street have been opened to the public

Some of the original doors and windows inside the building have been removed for part of the partition wall. At first, these were almost impossible to distinguish. By analyzing the internal framework structure, the designer keenly discovered the built -up part. After removing its surface, the door and window that belonged to the building itself was stripped. The original location of these doors and windows. However, not every "rescued" component can continue to be used. If the damage is severe, it can only be engraved in one -to -one in the size and style.

New ground tiles are as much as possible in the color and wear degree to the old brick (provided by the respondent)

The damaged floor tiles in the building can no longer verify its materials and sources. After many questions, the repair team found a factory that can customize new floor tiles with consistent appearance. After special treatment, the new floor tiles fits the old bricks as much as possible in color and wear, but the repair part is maintained slightly from the existing part. in principle.

The nostalgic rotating wooden stairs exudes the ancient rhyme

Rebirth: Let it integrate into modern life

After more than a year of "cost -regardless of cost", the first and second floors of No. 39 Shamian Street, which are reborn, have been opened to the public. Without tedious decoration, the entire space design should be used as a subtraction. The idea of ​​repairing the team is that each step is to follow the minimum intervention and reversibility. Carefulness and restraint are the most important principles in this work.

Let the old buildings of Shamian integrate into the life of modern people

In their opinion, whether it is the first foreign bank, missionary agency, separated and living by different people, or as a business place, this old building always exerts its functions and fulfill its mission. The purpose of repair is not to support it, but to integrate into the life of modern people; people feel the pulse of history in space, and also leave their own trajectory in the space.

Sitting and chatting here, often make people feel sometimes staggered

The wooden staircase at No. 39 Shamian Street has become a hot spot in camera

Now walking into this beautiful building that has been infiltrated years, the time seems to be slowly down, the old camphor tree outside the window is green, exquisite flower -order bricks, thick wooden floors, and nostalgic rotating wooden stairs exudes the ancient charm. Here Sitting and chatting, often make people feel staggered sometimes. "In the past, you can take pictures and walk to the sand, but it is difficult to contact with cultural relics from zero distance. A cafe may be a relaxed way to attract the public, especially young people, to enter cultural relics to experience historical and culture." Deng Ziyang said.

Source | Yangcheng Evening News • Yangcheng School

Editor -in -law | Wang Min

School counterpart | Xie Zhizhong

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