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Flowing Garden House is a large, luxurious family compound, built for two fellow entrepreneurs in Zhangzhou City, China. Created by an architectural firm More than Arch Studio, the 1700-square-foot home stands apart from most modern houses in China. This home consists of three parts that include a private unit for each brother’s family and a common space for family reunions, fitness and more. The social spaces center around a peaceful courtyard design with a huge pond and majestic trees. The hope for this unique home design is that it will become a centerpiece for an extended family, and will be the home fire that forges memories for generations to come.
It’s a huge pond design that gives this home a sense of close family connection. The central pond courtyard ignites a covering feeling of serenity that flows into every branch of the house.
At night, the courtyard is a warm and welcoming space under soft outdoor lighting. Focused LED lights dance across the stone steps that lead down to the pond to create a beautiful, graded effect and promote safety in low light.
The concrete steps around the pond serve as a place to sit and contemplate at the water’s edge.
The modern steps go down into the water, building an abstract design beneath the clear surface.
LED strips follow the wider edge of the pond, achieving a bold, contemporary look.
Mature trees thrive around the perimeter of the yard, creating height, texture and natural beauty.
A traditional Chinese tea room opens wide to the soothing courtyard view. Tea drinking is elementary in Southern Fujian, as well as an integral part of hospitality.
With double doors pulled back, the tea room design is extended by a narrow terrace that leads to the water’s edge.
An indoor heated swimming pool is placed in the basement, with lounges and meeting rooms located next to it.
A sunken courtyard blesses the basement areas with natural light and a beautiful natural panorama.
The material palette through the domestic compound remains consistent in hot wood grain and board-shaped concrete. The palette is softened slightly in the two private housing volumes to create a comfortable atmosphere where coarse concrete walls are minimized by beige stucco.
In the larger, more open social spaces, cool, textured concrete rules with little additional decoration. Bamboo ceilings create a warm counterbalance.
Interior lighting is focused and atmospheric.
A huge skylight brings sunlight to the basement pool.
Fair-faced concrete and open walkways build a monumental aesthetic through the home composition.
The housing units that belong to each brother and their family are merged into one building but are completely separate inside. They are entered by two independent, staggered entrance halls of a ribbon courtyard to establish privacy.
The combined home is equipped with a grand dining room that gets the best views of the interior patio design. The grand dining room is furnished with two round dining tables that can seat up to ten people each, to accommodate a large number of family members and guests during the festivals. A smaller patio supports the dining room to create an open flow.
Fireplaces create a hearty glow, serving as an attraction for comfortable gatherings.
The scale of respective spaces are separated from each other to evoke contrasting moods.
The ribbon yard connects all areas, threading an outdoor tour.
From stone steps at the northeast entrance, under a shady overhang, and through a series of narrow and wider spatial arrangements, the courtyard path is a private trail of tranquility.
On the south side of the building, a lower corridor reaches the terrace where the whole view is fully developed.
For many years, the use of courtyards was common in local houses to improve environmental conditions and fulfill a natural division between private and community spaces.
Plants that bloom over time become grounded in family memories and in future generations.
Light wells touch every interior space with a hint of nature.
Port windows line up to allow the line of sight to move from one space to the next.
Guest rooms are arranged over the north side of the leisure area.
Room sizes are compact and comfortable, with serene garden views to the south.
Bedrooms get an outdoor connection with a small patio.
Both of the master bedrooms are located on the south front side of the second floor, which faces a wooded area that leads to the sea.
Except for some land in the south, where the sea is closely observable through the trees, there are no remarkable views to be had, as the height of the building is limited to only ten meters. This makes the courtyard and landscape roads all the more precious.
The 30-meter-wide dense forest zone serves as a windbreak and shield against typhoons. The 3-acre, rectangular housing plot has its shorter sides to the north and south. Neighboring buildings stand east and west.
The entrance is on the north side of the road, which winds into the social leisure space. The southern part of the home is the private residential area. The division of the two independent housing units fluently forms the ribbon courtyard.
Right next to the northernmost corridor, multi-purpose rooms within the two units can be used as a casual dining room, for arts, as a reading room or for games.
The basement is equipped with a living room, home cinema, comfortable, laundry and spare bedrooms.
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