Chinese Small Scale Architecture
Small-scale architectural projects that explore intimate spaces, cultural expression, and localized design solutions.
RY+P Architects Perch Two Tea Pavilions on a Chongqing Rooftop Above the Yangtze
A 120 square meter rooftop along Chongqing's historic Mountain Alley becomes an aerial garden for tea, views, and slow city life.
WH Studio Packs a Museum, Archive, and Planning Hall into One Courtyard Complex in Song County
A compact three-program civic building in Luoyang draws on classical Chinese proportions and the poetics of local mountain-and-river landscapes.
Jumping House Lab Lifts Four Roof Corners to Carve Light into a Rural Chinese Art Studio
A 310-square-meter workshop in Jiangxi Province reimagines the village house by turning its roofline into a landscape of clerestories.
Only Human Translates Traditional Chinese Paintings into a Brick and Concrete House in Bangkok
H168 House draws spatial diagrams from classical ink scrolls to organize a mixed-use residence around courtyards, voids, and a singular moon gate.
Sens Architects Floats a Bronze Volume Over Rice Fields in Jiaxing's Flower Industry Park
A 20,000-square-meter exhibition center in Haining anchors public culture to agricultural landscape with cantilevered precision.
A Chongqing Home Where Terrain Becomes Architecture
YES.ARCH transforms a three-story terraced house in Chongqing into a warm, layered home organized around courtyards, timber, and terrazzo.
A Café Built Like a Landscape in Chongqing
Wide Horizon and Epiphany Architects fold roof planes into Chongqing's terrain, making a 200 m² café feel like a geological event.
Xutian Market Weaves Community Into a Village Edge
Multi-Architecture turns a rural market at the foot of Luofu Mountain into a generous public threshold between village life and landscape.
East Courtyard: A Concrete Homecoming in Rural China
Benzhe Design builds a layered concrete house in Jiangsu's coastal farmland, reimagining the rural Chinese home as a vessel for light, memory, and return.
Transforming Urban Green Spaces: Service Stations of Changning Outer-Ring Ecological Park Belt by Atelier Z+ and YeArch
The Service Stations of Changning Outer-Ring Ecological Park Belt blend adaptive reuse, timber architecture, and community spaces, enhancing Shanghai’s greenway and ecological landscape.
House of Cornfield by xian Architects: A Countryside Retreat Blending Nature and Contemporary Living
House of Cornfield by xian Architects blends traditional Chinese vernacular with modern design, harmonizing nature, sunlight, and countryside living.
Expansion of STUDIO SCRIPT OFFICE by Studio Script
Compact office expansion reuses former Beijing factory, introducing greenery, flexible mezzanine spaces, and warm plywood contrasts within an adaptive studio.
