{"id":67418,"date":"2018-11-02T09:46:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T09:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/?p=67418"},"modified":"2018-11-02T09:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T09:46:03","slug":"urban-cabin-by-mini-living-and-penda-takes-cues-from-beijings-hutong-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/?p=67418","title":{"rendered":"Urban Cabin by MINI Living and Penda takes cues from Beijing&#8217;s hutong homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ah__AUkPyjU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.home-of-penda.com\/\">Penda<\/a>\u00a0designed the tiny structure with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mini.com\/en_MS\/home\/living.html\">MINI Living<\/a>, as one of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2018\/10\/02\/china-house-vision-exhibition-beijing-design-week-future-homes\/\">10 conceptual homes that went on show for the China House Vision exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is designed to to marry together the heritage of Beijing&#8217;s hutongs \u2013 the tightly packed courtyard neighbourhoods that are common in the Chinese capital \u2013 and ideas for the future of housing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67424\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_67424\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width: 1704px\"><div class=\"getout\"><img itemprop=\"contentURL\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67424\" src=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1704\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_67424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"description\">MINI Living collaborated with Dayong Sun of Penda for the fourth instalment of its Urban Cabin programme<\/figcaption><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"afterfigure alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>The tiny home is the fourth instalment of the MINI Living Urban Cabin programme, following installations in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2017\/11\/01\/video-interview-sam-jacob-corinna-natter-mini-living-urban-cabin-london-public-private-spaces-merge-movie\/\">London<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2017\/11\/15\/video-interview-peter-zuspan-bureau-v-mini-living-urban-cabin-new-york-start-conversation-immigration-movie\/\">New York<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2018\/07\/20\/video-interview-mini-living-urban-cabin-los-angeles-freelandbuck-movie\/\">Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67425\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_67425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width: 1704px\"><div class=\"getout\"><img itemprop=\"contentURL\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67425\" src=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1704\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-2.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_67425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"description\">The MINI Living Urban Cabin is part of the China House Vision exhibition in Beijing<\/figcaption><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"afterfigure alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>The project sees MINI Living work with a local architect in each city to adapt a 15-square-metre structure, to explore ideas for how people could live comfortably in a home with a very small footprint.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67426\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_67426\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width: 1704px\"><div class=\"getout\"><img itemprop=\"contentURL\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67426\" src=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1704\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-3.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_67426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"description\">Dayong Sun included a swing in the experience room he designed for the cabin, which is a reference to his childhood memories of living in hutongs in Beijing<\/figcaption><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"afterfigure alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>To consider this approach in relation to Beijing, Sun drew from his own experience growing up in a hutong home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67427\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_67427\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width: 1704px\"><div class=\"getout\"><img itemprop=\"contentURL\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67427\" src=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1704\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-4.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-4-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_67427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"description\">Dayong Sun added a series of gold-lined periscopes to the roof of the cabin<\/figcaption><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"afterfigure alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>The Urban Cabin houses a bedroom and living room on one side, and a kitchen and bathroom on the other, which each open onto a central semi-enclosed courtyard in the middle of the structure, described here as an &#8220;experience space&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67419\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_67419\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width: 1704px\"><div class=\"getout\"><img itemprop=\"contentURL\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67419\" src=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1704\" height=\"2556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-5.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-5-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_67419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"description\">The periscopes allow the cabin occupants to see views of the city when they look up from the swing<\/figcaption><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"afterfigure alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>Sun added a swing to this space \u2013 a reference to his childhood memories of living in a hutong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hutongs always combine interior and exterior space, physical space and emotional space,&#8221; Sun explains in the movie, which Dezeen filmed for MINI Living in Beijing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67420\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_67420\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width: 1704px\"><div class=\"getout\"><img itemprop=\"contentURL\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67420\" src=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1704\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-6.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-6-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_67420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"description\">The MINI Living Urban Cabin features a series of panels that can rotate or be pulled out<\/figcaption><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"afterfigure alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>Sun added seven irregular white structures orientated at different angles to the roof of the cabin, which are inspired by the makeshift extensions that many hutong residents build to increase space in their homes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67421\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_67421\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width: 1704px\"><div class=\"getout\"><img itemprop=\"contentURL\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67421\" src=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1704\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-7.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-7-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_67421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"description\">Like previous MINI Living Urban Cabin installations, the Beijing cabin blurs the boundaries between private and public spaces<\/figcaption><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"afterfigure alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>The structures are lined with a reflective gold material. They act as periscopes \u2013 another reference to one of Sun&#8217;s favourite childhood toys \u2013 that provide the occupants with views of the city when they look up from the swing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think architecture should not only create space for protection, architecture should also create something for love, for fun,&#8221; Sun says.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67422\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_67422\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width: 1280px\"><div class=\"getout\"><img itemprop=\"contentURL\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67422\" src=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-8.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-8-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_67422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"description\">MINI Living collaborates with a local architect in each city for its Urban Cabin programme<\/figcaption><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"afterfigure alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>As with the previous architects that have collaborated on Urban Cabin installations, Sun worked with a basic modular structure designed by MINI Living&#8217;s in-house team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On one side you have everything you need for your daily life \u2013 that&#8217;s what the MINI Living design team creates,&#8221; explains MINI Living creative lead Oke Houser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then we always invite a collaborator to give a local perspective on the city we\u2019re in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A recurring theme of the MINI Living Urban Cabins is to blur the boundaries between private and public spaces.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67423\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_67423\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" style=\"width: 1704px\"><div class=\"getout\"><img itemprop=\"contentURL\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67423\" src=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1704\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-9.jpg 1704w, https:\/\/tckt.vn\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/18A11001-9-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1704px) 100vw, 1704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_67423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\" itemprop=\"description\">Sun Dayong says architecture should provide &#8220;fun and love&#8221; as well as protection<\/figcaption><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"afterfigure alignnone\"><\/div>\n<p>The Beijing cabin features a translucent white mesh facade, while the interior is lined with plywood punctuated with a series of circular cut-outs, which allows light to pass in and out of the structure.<\/p>\n<p>Panels in the walls\u00a0 can also be opened up or rotated so that the occupants can share their space with people outside if they wish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have all these modular elements in the cabin that can rotate and fold out of the facade,&#8221; says MINI Living designer Corinna Natter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For us, it&#8217;s really important that people can interact with our cabin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The MINI Living Urban Cabin is on show at\u00a0China House Vision\u00a0until 6 November 2018 at Beijing&#8217;s Olympic Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Urban Cabin programme is part of the wider MINI Living project, which was launched by car company MINI in 2016 to develop architectural solutions for future urban living spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is currently underway on MINI Living&#8217;s first permanent building,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2017\/11\/23\/mini-co-living-destination-shanghai-china-industrial-architecture-residential\/\">a co-living space in Shanghai<\/a>, which is due to open in 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Source: Dezeen)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penda\u00a0designed the tiny structure with\u00a0MINI Living, as one of\u00a010 conceptual homes that went on show for the China House Vision exhibition. 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