Historic Building Activation: Old Residence Transformed into a Hotel

A guest room converted from an old house. The original wooden windows, floor tiles, and ceiling timber frame are preserved. The bathroom is designed as an independent box placed in a corner of the room. The top of the box does not reach the ceiling, and gaps are left around it. All pipes are resolved within the box. The bed and furniture are movable. Avoid: building the bathroom against the old wall and chiseling the wall for pipes, sealing the timber frame with a new ceiling, replacing the original wooden windows with aluminum windows, dividing the room into smaller sections, destroying the original spatial scale.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一間老宅改成的客房。原有的木窗、地磚與天花木架保留,衛浴做成一個獨立的盒子放在房間一角,盒子的頂面不到天花,四周留縫,管線全部在盒子內部解決。床與家具都是活動式的。避免:把衛浴貼著老牆興建並鑿牆走管、用新天花把木架封住、更換原有木窗改為鋁窗、把房間隔成小間破壞原有的空間尺度。