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Liu Qi Youth Apartment

The Liuqi Youth Apartment project, designed by the original architectural design firm, is a youth-oriented apartment project located in Daxing District, Beijing, China. The project was formerly a three-story old office building that had fallen into disuse. The owner hopes to transform the entire top floor into a youth-oriented apartment to provide a high-quality living space for young people who have just arrived in Beijing.

The entire project divides 31 residential units into 6 different types of layouts to meet the lifestyle needs of various groups. In the public areas, leisure and shared spaces are set up to provide a variety of social activity venues and convenient public services for busy young people. Taking advantage of the height of the office building, micro loft units are implanted, allowing each apartment to have more complete functional spaces and expansion possibilities.

The owner needs to transform the top floor of the building into a youth apartment with less funds, while the first and second floors are respectively used as a restaurant open to the public and an office for enterprises. This requires an independent transportation system for the youth apartment on the third floor and the first and second floors. In this case, the entrance and exit for the apartment are set on one gable wall of the building to avoid the confusion caused by different functions. Bright orange is used to guide tenants from the first floor to the third floor and throughout the entire apartment corridor, reducing the boredom caused by a long corridor. The overall interior renovation scientifically divides the apartment units into 4x7-meter modules and uses a prefabricated steel structure system to shorten the construction period and reduce costs.

Due to the limitations of the building's usage conditions, the entire circulation route from the entrance to the farthest room is 80 meters long. The overly long corridor and the sense of living in clusters with doors facing each other make the entire building dull and uninteresting. The designer uses strong color guidance to create a warm and welcoming initial impression with the orange color of the staircase railing at the entrance on the first floor, and then to the third floor's public rest area, where the cozy and comfortable lazy sofas, game consoles, water bar, and books provide a relaxing and pleasant atmosphere. The entire corridor continues the overall relaxed and cheerful rhythm, with highly saturated door colors and doorplate entry lights, which enhance the tenants' sense of belonging. The focus is on the group of young people who have come to Beijing to pursue their dreams. We want young people who have just arrived in Beijing to maintain their own individual lifestyles even in the fast-paced life. In response to this issue, we have attempted to create six different apartment types, including single apartments, dormitories, couples' small homes, pet-friendly layouts, and even three-person family layouts, so that everyone who comes to the youth apartment can find their own independent space.

Reviving an old building is never an easy task. Old houses offer low prices, while young people bring vitality and passion. This is a mutually reinforcing and complementary combination. Under the premise of ensuring low-cost construction, young people can enjoy a better living quality in the fast-paced Beijing. Currently, the apartment has an occupancy rate of over 90%, which also proves that this old three-story office building has been reborn.

Name Liu Qi Youth Apartment
Type Interior design
Location Daxing District, Beijing
Area 1125 ㎡
Time The year 2024
Status Construction completed
Client Huayue Holdings (Beijing) Co., Ltd