Z宅丨中国北京丨Y+Y Studio

Z宅位于北京远郊，是建筑师为其父母设计的养老住宅。该项目将一处废弃的院子改造更新，并将微型农耕与园艺融入生活日常。

Z House, a house for the architect’s parents in rural Beijing, renovates an abandoned courtyard house, integrating micro-farming and gardening into its domestic routines.

▼航拍，Aerial © 朱润资

倚靠大华山镇绿植覆盖的山丘，Z宅以细腻的方式更新了原有结构，将民间建筑遗产重置于当代生活的语境下：从对其材料特性与结构逻辑的延续，到对“小院”类型中生活功能的重新编排，皆扎根现实、并为当下生活带来新的诗意。▼场地地图，Site map © Y+Y Studio

Set against wooded mountains of Dahuashan town, Z House carefully renews the existing structure and reframes its vernacular heritage for contemporary living: from inheriting its material characteristics and structural logic, to re-choreographing the domestic programs of traditional “Courtyard House” type, the project remains grounded while introducing new poetics to everyday living.

▼入院门，Courtyard Entry© Yiran Zhang

▼庭院花园，Courtyard Garden© 朱润资

▼庭院花园与山楂树，Courtyard Garden and Hawthorn Trees© 朱润资

▼菜园与厨房，Farm Garden and Kitchen© 朱润资

▼正房檐廊，Main House Veranda© 朱润资

▼庭院日暮时分，Courtyard at Dusk© 朱润资

场地中央30米高的椿树构成一种“引力中心”：北倚长屋、南抱合院，它的气场引导着周围的动线、视野与日常活动。项目本质上是一场平面上的再平衡，重新织合点与域、动与静、全景与框景……在一场韵律的游戏中，时间的层次与生活的诗意风景层层展开。

▼景观轴测图，Landscape Axon©Y+Y Studio

On site, a 30-meter Ailanthus tree forms a “center of gravity”: to its north, a long house; to its south, an enclosed yard – its aura guiding circulation, views and daily activities around it. The project is essentially a planimetric recalibration, tying together points and fields, movements and stillness, panoramic and framed views…a play of rhythm where layers of time, layers of domestic picturesque unfold.

▼茶室，Tea Room East© 朱润资

▼茶室西，Tea RoomWest © 朱润资

Z宅作为两位住户的养老住宅，适宜春、夏、秋三季居住。项目在有限预算内，向废弃的场地注入新的生机：包括将正房（一座典型的北方木构石砌民居）改造为被动式房屋，同时新增厨房单元、庭院景观，并重建院墙与入口。▼改造前立面和改室内，Facade and Interior before Renovation © 朱润资

Z House is designed as a retirement home for two elderly residents throughout Spring, Summer and Fall seasons. Within a modest budget, it reinstates life on an abandoned site: including converting the main house (a traditional Chinese timber-and-cobblestone construction) into a passive house, adding a kitchen unit, landscaping, and reconstructing the perimeter wall and entry.

▼厨房，Kitchen East© 朱润资

在盘曲且风化的老梁里，我们可以窥见乡村建造就地取材的智慧。为了彰显传统“抬梁式木构”的结构、节奏、与材质美，改造工作模拟并遵循了它的内在逻辑：在修复檩、梁、柱等主体木构并更换椽条后，结构骨骼便准备好了迎接一套全新的耐气候建筑外壳，立脊金属屋面与保温窗框像一件新衣服一样被覆上。原先的五开间格局被整合为三间（茶室、主卧、次卧），墙体与木柁间错，让木构的语汇不受遮挡地完整呈现。另有钢构沿着木构走势向外延展形成飞檐，于正房前侧形成檐廊，于后侧形成带有服务功能的走廊。饰面砖和基石等被保护、并按需修复原貌。

▼结构轴测图，Structural Axon©Y+Y Studio

In heavily bent load-bearing beams, one can trace the wisdom of rural construction levering limited resources at hand. To celebrate the “táiliáng” (column-beam-and-strut) system’s structural, rhythmic and material beauty, the renovation maps its inherent logic and follows: After repairing the structural members and replacing the rafters, we’ve prepared the structural skeleton for a new weather-proof envelope – standing seam metal roof and insulated window cladded like a piece of clothing. Previous 5 structural bays were reworked into 3 rooms (Tea Room, Master Bedroom, and Guest Bedroom), where walls stagger around wood stacks, allowing unobstructed expression of the timber framing. Steel framing continues to extend outward as flying eaves, forming a shaded veranda to the front, a service corridor to the back. Veneer bricks and stone foundations are protected and restored as needed.

▼主卧，Bedroom© 朱润资

新建厨房则采用钢构，服务功能位于后侧，前侧可开启的玻璃幕墙向内院平台敞开。庭院内设有菜园和多个花园池区，并以灵活的动线串连。一条干枯的卵石铺就的“溪流”贯穿其间，漫过景观石、花草植被与铺地，在中式园林的哲学隐喻里，以微缩景观映照自然大千。

The kitchen unit is built in steel framing, with service areas to the back and a fully operable glass facade opening onto a concrete platform. The courtyard features a farm garden and various patches of landscape gardens, in a dynamic connectivity of circulation routes. A gravel “river” flows over arrangements of rocks, plants, and paved fields, in the philosophical terms of Chinese gardens, symbolizing greater nature in miniature.

▼走廊，Hallway© 朱润资

Z宅的改造遵循“所见即所得”的原则：粗重厚实者为旧，轻盈灵动者为新。新与旧交融于一体，在鲜明的对比度中相互映照。既尊重了物质历史，也重新诠释了积累的文化与社会记忆——因为我们坚信遗留物质的价值（尤其是乡土与粗粝物质）在于其维系的生活，而非其光环。

Z House follows a principle for renovation that “what you see is what you get”: what seems coarse, heavy and thick be old; what seems sleek, light and lissome be new. The old and the new mingle in one composite with distinct contrast. It registers layers of material history and reinterprets the accumulated cultural and societal memories – because we believe the value of existing materials (especially that of the rural and crude) lies in the life it sustains, not its aura.

▼后走廊与卫生间，Rear Corridor & Bathroom© 朱润资

在回应住户亲近自然、禅意栖居的愿景中，Z宅通过积极参与乡村（城郊）更新，提出了一种退休生活的别样可能：以微型农耕作为可持续食物循环的方式，也作为一种有意义的日常实践；融合被动能源策略与节水景观，用最低的环境成本，在低密度社区中重建活力与连结；同时聚焦母亲的日常劳动，让她在家庭空间中的角色与身体得以解放、回归本真。

In response to the residents’ aspiration to live in Zen and in kinship with nature, Z House offers an alternative possibility of retirement living through active engagement in rural (sub-urban) renewal: practicing micro-farming as both a sustainable food cycle and a meaningful daily endeavor; integrating passive energy strategies and water-wise landscaping, to build connection and vitality in lower-density community at a minimal environmental cost; meanwhile recognizing the mother’s work, liberating her role and body in domestic spaces.

▼抬梁细节，Column Detail© 朱润资

“小院”是一种北方常见的民居形式，一般有与长屋相连的硬地庭院、并被院墙围合。而Z宅在“小院”的类型形制中，注入了中式园林哲学与田园的诗意理想，形成一种新的叙事：归家的人，穿越弯折掩映的入院门，便可见菜园（“田”）与花园（“园”）交织的全景画卷展开；在老树的引力下，踏卵石”溪”径，抵达荫蔽连廊，这个连接正房与厨房的主要经络。穿梭在耕作与烹饪，相聚与独处，室内与露天……不同的功能场景在同一有机的空间中编排，在同一禅修的时刻中流转。

“xiǎo yuàn” (Courtyard House), a hard-paved yard enclosed by walls abutting a long house, is widely found in Chinese rural north. The project hereby reshapes the “Courtyard House” type by unpacking some of the Chinese garden philosophies and poetic ideals of “tián yuán” (fields and gardens), forming an updated narrative: Returning home, one enters through an inflected, concealed entrance to find a panoramic scene of “tián” (farm garden) and “yuán” (landscape garden) revealing. Gravitated by the old tree, one travels across the gravel “river” to arrive at the shaded veranda – the vein connecting the main house and the kitchen. From farming to cooking, from group gathering to solitary resting, from indoor to open-air…programs are arranged in one organic tissue in space, in one monastic schedule in time.

▼平面图，Plan©Y+Y Studio

▼新旧平面图，New and old plan©Y+Y Studio

▼景观平面图，Landscape Plan©Y+Y Studio

▼剖面1，Section 1©Y+Y Studio

▼剖面2，Section 2©Y+Y Studio

项目名称：Z宅

项目类型：建筑/改造

设计方：Y+Y Studio info@y-y.studio

项目设计：2022-2023年

完成年份：2024年

设计团队：张一然

项目地址：北京市平谷区大华山镇

建筑面积：390㎡

摄影版权：朱润资