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架构师提供的文本描述。南院，即南院，位于广西南宁市马山县鼓陵镇阳山村三家。古往今来，这个宁静而朴素的村庄由三个宗族组成：黄、梁、唐，名为三家(三姓)。无与伦比的喀斯特地貌环绕着村庄，自然形成了绿色的屏障。在山的底部，一条小溪缓缓地流过村庄，孩子们在旁边游泳，还有家庭主妇在旁边洗蔬菜和衣服。三部分民间音乐的旋律来自遥远的地方，动听而悦耳。

Text description provided by the architects. The South Yard, namely a southern courtyard, is located in Sanjia, Yangshan Village, Guling Town, Mashan County, Nanning, Guangxi Province. Through ages, this tranquil and plain village has been settled by three clans: Huang, Liang and Tang, thus named Sanjia (Three Surnames). The unparalleled Karst Landform surrounds the village, forming a green barrier naturally. In the bottom of mountains, a brooklet flows slowly through the village, with children swimming and housewives washing vegetables and clothes beside it. The melodious sound of three-part folk music comes from far away, attractive and pleasant to the ear.

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南院的诞生始于“美丽的乡村重建工程”。在戏剧性的村庄重建下，大部分的老房子被拆除了，留下了一座孤零零的老砖房，就在一条小溪旁，藏在玉米地里。这座房子最初是一座有六十多年历史的私人住宅，后来被主人多次修缮，最终被遗弃。它的主人在河对面建造了一座新的砖混房屋。土坯墙部分破败，土坯墙壁被斑驳和毁坏，内部空间狭小而昏暗。但令人惊讶的是，前布鲁克雷的山墙完好无损，屋顶的角度接近45°。远处绿树成荫，村庄的新房子环绕着，看上去相当独特。

The birth of the South Yard begins with the 'Beautiful Village Reconstruction Project'. Under the dramatic reconstruction of village, most of old houses were removed, leaving a lonely old cob-brick house beside a creek, hidden in a corn field. Originally as a private dwelling with a history of more than sixty years, the house has been repaired many times by its owner, ended up abandoned. And its owner built a new brick-concrete house in the opposite of the river. Partly dilapidated, its adobe walls was mottled and ruined and the inner space was cramped and dim. But surprisingly the gable wall forward brooklet was intact with a angle of its roof nearly 45°. Shaded by verdant hills in the distance and surrounded by new houses of village, It looks considerably unique.

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住在南宁的黄老师一直致力于农村建筑建设和儿童自然教育活动。经过她的不懈努力，这座老房子得到了完整的保存，成为这个村庄唯一的纪念馆。南院是连接城市和乡村的纽带。建筑师们想出了一种“新旧”的方法：彻底重建老房子，并在它旁边的一块空地上建造一座新的开放式建筑。

Living in Nanning, owner teacher Huang always devotes herself to rural building construction and children’s natural education activities. With her persistence and effort, this old house has been preserved integrally, being the only memorial of this village. The South Yard is the connector between city and country. Architects conceived an ‘old and new’ method: reconstructing the old house completely and constructing a new open building in an open area beside it. 

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由于老房子内有许多隔墙，内部空间很窄。因此，建筑师拆除了内墙，用钢结构进行了重建，形成了更大的空间，并在内部增加了一层。钢结构和砖墙支撑一个新的屋顶，使破旧的墙更稳定。工人们重建了倒塌的墙，拆除了内墙上的圆心砖，拆除了屋顶上的瓦片，然后再仔细地把它们放下。新旧材料、土黄砖、白钢结构、棕色木板混合在老房子里，产生了画廊般的艺术效果。灿烂的阳光从天窗和闪烁的阴影中倾泻而出，让人们感受到时光的流逝，使这座有60年历史的房子恢复活力。

Because of many interlaced walls inside the old house，internal space was narrow. Therefore, architects removed the internal walls and rebuilt them with steel structure to form larger space and to add a layer inside. The steel structure and brick walls support a new roof and make the dilapidated wall more stable. Workers rebuilt the collapsed wall with cob bricks removed from internal walls, torn down tiles from roof and then put down them again carefully. Old and new materials, earthly yellow bricks, white steel structure and brown boarding, are blended in the old house, producing gallery-like artistic effect. Brilliant sunshine pouring from skylights and flickering shadows make people feel the flight of time, and make this 60-year-old house revitalization.

建筑师们在老房子和布鲁克雷河之间的玉米地里建造了一座新房子，以扩大空间，增加老房子的功能。为了保护山墙，新房子和旧房子分开建造。大多数由玻璃制成的墙壁不仅确保了新房子的透明度，而且也是对那座庄严的旧房子的衬托。新屋的主要结构是由高强度竹纤维复合材料制成的，这种复合材料细长而温暖，就像木头一样。不同规模的庭院在新楼的各个方向规划，玻璃以不同的透明度将外部风景如画的景色带入大楼。新房子唯一的砖墙是安装在厨房的一边，它的设计与老房子的质地相一致。这两座建筑的砖墙在许多年后将显示出类似的时间痕迹。这两座建筑，一座新的，一座旧的，一座重的和一座轻的，为彼此提供了完美的衬托。

Architects built a new house in a corn field between the old house and the brooklet to enlarge the space and increase the functions of the old house. In order to preserve the gable wall, the new house was built separately from the old one. The majority of walls made from glass not only ensure transparency of the new house but also serve as a foil for the dignified old one. The main structure of the new house is made from high strength bamboo fiber composites which are as slender and warm as woods. Courtyards with different scales planned in every direction of the new building and glass with various transparency bring outside picturesque views into the building. The only cob-brick wall of the new house is installed on one side of the kitchen, which is design to correspond to the texture of the old one. The cob-brick walls of these two buildings will show similar trace of time after many years. These two buildings, a new one and an old one, a heavy one and a light one, provide the perfect foil for one another.

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虽然南场工程竣工后，村民们并不完全明白为什么这类房屋是在村里建造的，但他们都说，他们喜欢这两栋建筑，因为他们熟悉旧的砖瓦和新的砖瓦。村里的孩子们喜欢来到这里，因为大楼里有许多庭院，他们可以轻松地跑、玩、读。游客也喜欢来这里，他们发现这是一个完全开放的地方，充满了生活的色彩。所以他们喜欢休息一下，拍一张建筑物的照片。

Although villagers did not fully understand why this kind of house was built in the village after project of South Yard was completed, all of them said they like these two buildings because of the familiar bricks and tiles of the old one and the kindly new one. Children in the village like coming here and because of many courtyards inside the building they can run, play and read lightheartedly. Tourists like coming here as well and they find this is a place completely open and full of the color of living. So they like to have a rest and take a picture of the buildings.

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南院是三家村的最后一座旧楼。它见证了村庄的历史变迁，密切注视着惊人的自然美和全新的生活姿态。

The South Yard is the last old building of Sanjia Village. It witnesses the transition of village’s history and keeps close watch on the stunning natural beauty with a brand new living posture.

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Architects Advanced Architecture Lab , Atelier UPA

Location Sanjia, Xingbin, Laibin, China

Category Public Space

Architect in Charge Mu Wei / Advanced Architecture Lab, Zhou Chao / Atelier UPA

Area 340.0 sqm

Project Year 2016