The Courtyard House Plugin Peoples Architecture Office

2014-10-24 01:00

架构师提供的文本描述。庭院豪宅插件本质上是一栋房子内的房子。它是一种预制的模块化系统，旨在为已有几个世纪历史的建筑带来现代生活水平和能源效率，同时使它们保持完整。

Text description provided by the architects. The Courtyard House Plugin is essentially a house within a house. It is a prefabricated modular system designed to bring modern living standards and energy efficiency to buildings that are centuries old while keeping them fully intact.

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这个位于72宫的插件是Dashilar区城市再生试点的一部分。位于北京中心，是一个历史悠久的地区，点缀着中国传统的四合院。这些庭院曾经是由多个家庭组成的。今天，旧的和破旧的，庭院是空的新住房在郊区。

The Plugin at Courtyard 72 is part of Dashilar District’s Urban Regeneration Pilot. Located in the center of Beijing, Dashilar is an historic area dotted with traditional Chinese courtyard houses that are partially occupied. These courtyards were once filled by multiple families. Today, old and dilapidated, the courtyards are vacated for newer housing in the suburbs.

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人民建筑办公室

在Dashilar，翻修或重建庭院的费用往往超过其所有者的经济利益。这些旧建筑缺乏现代化的绝缘和私人浴室，可能因新的干预措施而永久受损。更重要的是，这些庭院的一部分仍然被其他家庭占用，结构升级可能侵犯他们的空间或隐私。因此，失修的被忽视的院落结构是大什拉常见的景象。

In Dashilar the costs of renovating or rebuilding courtyards often outweigh the financial benefits to their owners. These old structures lack modern insulation and private bathrooms and can be permanently damaged from new interventions. More importantly, parts of these courtyards are still occupied by other families, and structural upgrades may infringe upon their space or privacy. Thus, neglected courtyard structures that have fallen into disrepair are common sights in Dashilar.

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人民建筑办公室

Courtyard House插件提供了一个替代这个问题的方法。人民建筑办公室(People‘sArchitecture Office)开发了一种由复合材料制成的新型预制板，它将结构、绝缘、布线、管道、窗户、门、内外饰面组合成一个模制部件。面板重量轻，操作方便，运输成本低廉。他们用一个工具，一个六角扳手，把它们扣在一起，锁在一起。

The Courtyard House Plugin provides an alternative to this problem. People's Architecture Office developed a new type of prefabricated panel made of a composite that incorporates structure, insulation, wiring, plumbing, windows, doors, interior and exterior finishes into one molded part. Panels are light, easy to handle, and cheap to ship. They snap and lock together with the use of a single tool, a hex wrench.

 Before / After. Image Courtesy of People's Architecture Office

在.之前/之后。人民建筑办公室的形象礼貌

整个插件结构可以在一天内由少数人组装，不需要任何技能或特殊训练。而且，由于它们是大规模生产的，插件面板可以制造高质量，但仍然是廉价的。“插件”是改造一座旧四合院的一半费用，大约是拆除和重建一个新庭院的费用的五分之一。

The entire Plugin structure can be assembled by a few people in one day, and requires no skill or special training. And because they are mass-produced, Plugin panels can be made in high quality, yet remain inexpensive. 'Plugging in' is half the cost of renovating an old courtyard house and about a fifth the cost of tearing down and rebuilding a new courtyard.

72号庭院是庭院豪宅插件的第一个原型。它将作为客座研究人员的生活/工作空间，调查达什拉地区的城市状况。这个插件有一个20平方米的客房，有一个私人浴室，还有一个40平方米的办公空间，还有我们的姐妹公司人民工业设计办公室设计的办公家具。

Courtyard 72 is the first prototype of the Courtyard House Plugin. It will function as a live/work space for guest researchers investigating the urban condition of the Dashilar area. This Plugin features a 20m2 guest room with a private bathroom and a 40m2 office space with office furniture designed by our sister company People's Industrial Design Office.

Courtyard House插件还提供了另一种保存方法。在中国，无数“历史保护”项目的例子仅仅是那些忽略和抹去历史痕迹的旧建筑的净化版本。该插件通过更新相关功能来延长庭院房屋的使用寿命，同时保持原有建筑的原貌不变。虽然这些庭院是历史建筑，但它们不是冻结在时间里的博物馆。这种“插上电源”的方法表明，保护建筑物的一个理想方法是让人们关心并使用它们。这个插件的目标是恢复对历史街区的兴趣，而不是作为旅游目的地，而是作为居住的地方。

The Courtyard House Plugin also presents an alternative approach to preservation. In China, countless examples of 'historic preservation' projects are merely sanitized versions of old buildings that ignore and erase the traces of history. The Plugin extends the life of courtyard houses by upgrading their relevant functions while keeping the original building untouched. While these courtyards are historic structures, they are not museums frozen in time. This method of 'plugging in' suggests that an ideal way to preserve a building is to have people care about and use them. The ambition of the Plugin is to renew interest in historic neighborhoods not as tourist destinations, but as places for living.