Wednesday, November 14, 2018

MAD Architects to transform an ancient Chinese courtyard into a kindergarten with a "floating roof"

Beijing-based design practice MAD Architects has broken ground on the Courtyard Kindergarten, a striking adaptive reuse project that transform a traditional siheyuan courtyard from the 1700s into the site of a creative and colorful kindergarten. Located in Beijing, the project aims to preserve the cultural heritage of the site while injecting fresh life through the addition of new structures, including a "dynamic floating roof" that surrounds the historic courtyard. As with many of the firm's projects,...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/mad-architects-to-transform-an-ancient-chinese-courtyard-into-a-kindergarten-with-a-floating-roof
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