Tree Courtyard \ Street House \Town Exhibition Intervention of the Yulin courtyard house
Yulin old town is located in the northern part of Shaanxi Province and was built in the Ming Dynasty. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it has been one of the important nine frontier towns in China. The walls of the old town are well preserved. The Central Street, which runs through the north and south in the middle of town, has six towers standing on the street, is called the “Six-Tower Street”.

In 2022, the Yuyang Government and the CBC launched the renew plan of old Town. Tumushi was invited to carry out an intervention of the Industry and Trade department yard, inserting multi-programs into the building. We believe the design roots in history, but should be based on contemporary view and the site itself, to create a place suitable for daily life. The building is an antiqued courtyard built in 2006. The purpose of design is transform the outdoor place, shops and underground markets into leisure yard, tourist center and exhibition hall. Based on the site itself, the renewal strategy is named “Tree Yard, Street House, and Town Exhibition”.

Tree Yard
The “Tree Yard” is a rectangular site with 27 x 8 meters in front of building. The three big trees almost covers the entire site. The paving materials are recycled blue bricks, which contrast with the modern transparent glazing facade. Fixed seats are placed under the shade of trees to form a leisurely “tree yard” .

Street House
Originally, the room was a row of shops. When the partition were removed, the whole shop becomes a 27X9M entire space for tourist centre. The antiqued facade is too solid to replaced the wooden doors with transparent glazing. In the middle of room, six boxes are lined up, which not only hide the existing columns, but also serve as storage. The outside of boxes is service core. The Six boxes, stacking with wood strips facade, gradually cantilevered towards the outdoor and indoor. the shape of “arch-room” makes them looks like the bottom arcade of The Six-Tower on the central street. Combing with liner space and blue brick pavement, the renewal tourist centre is called “Street House”.

City Exhibition
The exhibition hall is a rectangular space of 27 meters by 30 meters on the underground floor. There are 16 columns, arranged in a matrix of 4×4. We want to hide columns and obtain a complete space to meet the exhibition program. the 12 outer columns is transformed into a circle exhibition walls. At the same time, Wall divides the space into a narrow outer corridor and a wide inner square which centre the Micro-scale model of old town. The name of “Town Exhibition” not only reflects the programs of the exhibition, but also expresses that the spacial structure itself.

Conclusion
The three proposals of “Tree Yard, Street House and Town Exhibition” are a transition from open to private in terms of spatial experience. But in terms of design strategy, it is just the opposite. We think It is interesting that tourists will experience the cultural impact when people gradual entry from the noise street to cultural space.