- Architects
- CaoPu studio
- Location
- Changsha, Hunan, China
- Client-Project planning
- “Reedom目田” Sun Shengqi, Xiong Yong, Zhao Xuru, Zou Rong
- Space designer
- Cao Pu
- Area
- 60.0 sqm
- Project Year
- 2016
- Photographs
- Zhang Zheming
- Manufacturers
- Toto
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Reedom Bookstore
The poets once get an inspiration. They want to transfer this humble house into a family bookstore, and name it “Reedom”. They choose books carefully in order to serve the public. On one side, they want to sell good books to people really fond of reading; on the other side, they also wish to provide a good place to go for the residents in Firework Mansion.
Moon for Reedom
The elevator hall of the Firework Mansion has a beautiful round window. It can be seen as soon as the elevator door opens. What more coincidental is that, outside the round window, are the outer windows of the two-bedroom Bookstore. So, we placed our signboard “Reedom” outside the round window and pasted the logo of Reedom on the round window. Seeing from a specific angle, the logo forms other words when linked to the words on the signboard. We call this round window “the Moon of Reedom”.
Meanwhile, we love so much the former mosaic outer wall of the Firework Mansion. So, we chose a space and printed the QR code of our bookstore onto it. The code can be scanned from some angle in the house.
Neighborly relations
The construction of the bookstore has lasted for a year. We have built very good neighborly relations with the neighbors. They all love the rooftop bookstore very much. Meanwhile, we are designing better facilities for them to dry clothes and pickled radish on the rooftop. We hope to finally build the area into a good place to go for the whole community.
The Firework Mansi Import and Export Company. Along with the structural reform of state-owned economy, the gloryon used to be the dormitory building for staff of the former state-owned Hunan Firecrackers & Fireworks of this firework company became history. In those years, the company spared no expense to build this mansion and poured the whole building structure with cement and pebbles. That’s why it’s still so firm till now, like a fort; Nowadays, young people have successively moved out of this mansion, so those left in this mansion are mostly retired elderly people; Many departments are rented so that the once simple personnel composition of the former staff dormitory becomes complicated.
From the architect. Firework Mansion
Located on Middle Furong Road, Changsha, under the foot of the Bayi Bridge, the 17-storey Firework Mansion was built in 1992. It was the highest building in Changsha at that time. As time pass by, it looks no longer as high as before now with so many high buildings surrounding it.
http://www.archdaily.com/789134/reedom-bookstore-caopu-studio