Nanchizi is an old neighborhood that is located southeast of The Forbidden City in Beijing. It is located in the Dong Cheng district. Nanchizi was an essential location for the everyday life of the Siheyuans (One-story courtyard traditional Beijing houses). Nanchizi was point out as a main conservation location in the year 2000, and the idea was to renovate old Siheyuan style houses and replaced them with modern buildings that try to imitate the typology of the old Siheyuan, this by conserving its original plan layout and extrude it vertically to make new two-story buildings.
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ReplyDeleteFor the discussion of Nanchizi, it is important for you to explain the significance of Nanchizi to the architecture community, vs. the developers, vs. the government.
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