Demand Analysis

  This building is reconstructed on the original site, with a total area of 592m2 for a family of five. The national regulations stipulate that the self-built house cannot exceed three floors.

  1. spacious courtyard; the typical space of Guangyuan rural houses is the courtyard, which is the main place of farmers’ living and production activities, including: the drying of grains, the stacking of a lot of materials, red and white celebrations, etc.

  2. living space; the elderly require sufficient light, color and the physiology and psychology of the elderly to adapt to the space environment suitable for the elderly living characteristics, children design to show the personality of children, like and independent space, adults require simple everyone rich in modern design.

  3. Functional room design; independent chess room and soundproof entertainment room are required.

 Overall design

  Because rural houses need to produce and live as one, so we keep the “yard” and “warehouse” which are needed in traditional rural areas. We put the warehouse in the stairway to make full use of the space, and the warehouse is set opposite to the main door to facilitate traffic circulation.

  The first floor is a living floor and a living room for the elderly. The elderly as a “weak and fragile” group, we design to take special care of them, the characteristics of the elderly living room.
Avoid going up and down stairs.

The room is relatively simple, avoid sharp furniture and objects.

room under the large appropriate to avoid too empty, the psychological impact on the elderly.

The toilet should preferably be close by, so that it is convenient for the elderly to get up at night.

The room should avoid strong light exposure, in order to let the elderly have a good sleep environment. So we put the room for the elderly on the first floor facing north. The overall color layout of the elderly’s room was matched with Chinese style, and decorative materials with good sound absorption and sound insulation were chosen. The curtains were chosen to be semi-transparent sashes or double lace curtains with good blackout, heat and thermal insulation as well as sound insulation. The bathroom is close to the elderly room, for the elderly can also be convenient toilet, bathroom decoration style with a mix and match approach, wood blinds, colored marble sink, modern style glass painting.

  Keep the air in the room fresh. Must maintain good communication with the outside world. Living room is a set of housing in the most frequently used, the most used room, the quality of its space is particularly important.

China is in the northern hemisphere, the living room is generally facing south as the best. So our living room windows are oriented to the south. The living room is designed in a modern minimalist style, using white and light gray materials throughout to create a theme that broadens the sense of space, and the back wall paved with marble slabs and shells has a little flavor in its simplicity, plus the design of colorful oil paintings, bar and rattan chairs installed on the balcony outside the living room, highlighting the leisurely and romantic temperament of the modern petite.

  On the second floor, the master bedroom is spacious and bright, and the background wall connected with lines in earthy yellow reveals a simple and uncomplicated texture. The flooring is made of two colors, and the gray square carpet with heat insulation and sound absorption function is added, which reconciles the originally monotonous, cold and hard space. Every woman wants to have a perfect checkroom in her heart. So in the master bedroom, a small checkroom was also reopened, where clothes, shoes, bags and other decorative items can be placed.

  The opposite of the master bedroom is the children’s room, so the design is to allow parents to take better care of their children, showing the children to use a lot of lovely colors, the main colors used are dark and white, such as the very cool white running lathe, a desk table, a combination of closet. The reason there is no bookcase is that this building will set up a study, so as to avoid putting a large bookcase in a small bedroom. A square cabinet is placed above the bed, where you can put some toys and some books. It is a good choice to read a book in the evening when you have nothing to do. The colorful oil painting in breaks the deep serenity of black, white and gray. The combination of cute toys, orange basketball and white in the room is full of childishness. The chandelier in the bedroom is also very interesting. Looking from the bottom up, it looks like a geometric shape woven with lines scribbled with a pen and ruler, which fills the child’s imagination.

  The third floor is a recreation room. The chess room and the court theater lounge for recreation and entertainment, and an open-air stage are set up to add new functions in line with the rural tradition. Since this is the age of information technology and people’s quality of life has changed a lot, adding a home theater is a different choice. Be sure to pay attention to the sound insulation of the upstairs to avoid affecting the sleep of the elderly.

  The terrace, some rural areas will also have, is the roof, they like to plant grass on it, planting orange trees, so that the summer can cool the whole house, in the top of a large umbrella, move a chair, lying on it, listen to a little song, drink tea, really something to enjoy. When the oranges are ripe, you can also peel one or two to eat, it’s really good. So I designed a terrace, on the terrace paved with lawn, planted a few trees, and then on the top of a pole, you can dry clothes, in the corner of a washing machine and a tap, convenient laundry. But the roots of the plants on the terrace will easily corrode the building. So weave a steel mesh at the bottom to partition the plants to avoid the roots coiling up and causing some damage to the building.

  Conclusion

  The improvement of living environment is one of the concrete manifestations of narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, and it is the wish of every designer to design a new rural area that suits the folk style and folk customs of the local old white surname in the most beautiful way.