When we converted the icehouse to a gallery, we also renovated a vacant house next to it into a short-term residential space. The existing building had a wooden interior nested inside concrete frame.

We tried to reconstruct the relationship among three different components (RC, wood, and white wall) by leaving the wooden interior in one area, stripping it off in another, and adding white walls in the remaining area. As a result, we created three areas of different atmosphere inside this small house, with each area fulfilling required functions respectively.

At the same time, we wanted to create an impression to the sojourners, through their experience of moving around inside, that this house as a whole is a continuous body in which each part is loosely connected. We tried to achieve this by creating conditions where the textures of adjoining areas do not appear completely disconnected but slightly overlapped (for example, a small area of existing RC walls on the second floor can be glimpsed from the white-walled living room on the first floor, plywood flooring on the second floor is extended to the footplate of a staircase down to the first floor, etc.)