Painting is a process from zero to one, everything starts with a piece of white cloth. Construction also has a similar process, although sometimes it is not from scratch, it is often necessary to do subtraction and then addition, and designers need to advance and retreat. Building for painters, daily life and creation are the most important themes. The two lives need to be parallel and overlapping.
The shape of the site is a rectangle extending from east to west, and the south side is a continuous glass window with a length of 40m, which faces the Ronggui waterway . The interior space is divided into three parts by symmetrical two-sided end-column shear walls, and the center of the space on the left and right sides is arranged with columns with a cross-section of 1.5m in length and width. The right side of the juxtaposed flue is thicker and heavier, and its slenderness ratio is close to a cube, which visually makes people feel the heavy load it bears. The instability brought by the structure is the core problem that needs to be digested and sorted out in the design, and it is also an opportunity to deconstruct the space to homogenize.
The functions are arranged from left to right as studio, living room, dining room and bedroom, and the spatial attributes develop from the center to the two sides and tend to be private.
The shear wall and the column are completed into a cube under the setting of the display cabinet. Their placement forms an open enclosure, demarcating functions while maintaining the continuity and flow of the space, and the spatial circulation will be similar to the experience of viewing an exhibition in an art gallery. The arrangement of electric equipment takes into account the correspondence between the height difference of the ceiling and the edge of the space, enhancing the boundary feeling of each square space. The two axes of the balcony and the corridor reduce the height and lead the line of sight to the depth and level.
In the selection of soft furnishings and paints, we deprived them of their right to become the visual focus, and weakened them as much as possible into objects in the space, so that they can be matched with the structures in the space and continuously overlap to form geometric parts. Motivating visitors to maintain dynamic observation on the move. Therefore, the selection of paint and cabinets is based towards pure colors, and the selection of materials is controlled within three kinds, so as to avoid the pureness of space composition being weakened by excessive information.
We surrendered a certain degree of space dominance to the owner’s artist personality, restraining the designer’s desire to express. The artist will redefine his private place in his daily life, and the space will continue to grow and develop. With the creation of the artist’s paintings and creations, the residence and studio gradually transformed into the House Museum.